Greg Bear
Greg Bear (born August 20, 1951, San Diego, United States; died 2022), was an American writer best known for science fiction. Bear is best remembered for Blood Music. Bear's honours include Nebula Award for Best Novel, Hayakawa Award and Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
Greg Bear’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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Greg Bear’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Greg in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~77,849
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
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Greg’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Greg, according to the stars
Core essence
Greg is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Greg is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Greg runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Greg needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Greg wants to be loved
Greg wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Greg and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Greg creates
How Greg makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Greg creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Greg is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Greg is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Greg fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Greg's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Greg Bear's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 20, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Greg Bear was born on August 20, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Greg Bear's birth date, August 20, 1951, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Greg’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Greg Bear's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Greg Bear combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Greg’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Greg Bear, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 7.4° orb
Greg’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.5° to 1.0° orb
Greg’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitersquareUranus1.2° to 1.3° orb
Greg’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.0° to 2.4° orb
Greg’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
Greg’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.6° orb
Greg’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
Greg’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussextileUranus4.6° to 5.0° orb
Greg’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableUranussquareNeptune5.0° orb
Greg’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrinePluto6.0° orb
Greg’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunconjunctionPluto6.7° to 7.7° orb
Greg’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Greg’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 26°53′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Greg building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 12°30′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Greg is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAries 20°30′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Greg is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 17°56′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Greg needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Greg guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron trine Sun 0.1°
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.1°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.7°
- Eros trine Pluto 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 2.2°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Greg’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Greg is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Greg’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mars, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Greg Bear, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Greg’s cards
Every card is computed from August 20, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Greg Bear, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Greg’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q317491, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by The original uploader was Geoffrey.landis at English Wikipedia., CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Greg Bear at Wikipedia, gregbear.com, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Greg Bear.
Quick answers about Greg Bear’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Greg Bear?
- Greg Bear was a Leo: born August 20, 1951, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rabbit.
- What was Greg Bear's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 20, 1951 birth.
- What time was Greg Bear born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Greg Bear's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 20, 1951 birth date.
- What was Greg Bear's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 20, 1951 birth date.
- Where was Greg Bear's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Greg Bear's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
