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Greg Egan

Greg Egan (born August 20, 1961, Perth, Australia), aged 65, is an Australian science fiction writer and former computer programmer. Egan's honours include Hayakawa Award, Hugo Award for Best Novella and Ditmar Award.

Greg Egan’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Greg Egan’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Greg in the U.S.?

#4761

US rank in 2025

~77,849

Americans share it since 1915

1961

its peak year

Greg ranked 77th among boys and 3,854th among girls in 1961, the year of this birth, with 5,397 American boys and 12 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Greg’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

11

Soul Urge · insight

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on G (7) and closes on G (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 7: movement against analysis.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Greg’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Greg apart

Greg Egan took the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1995, at 34.

University of Western Australia shaped the training.

Wikipedia's editors put Greg Egan under Writers from Perth, Western Australia, Australian computer programmers and Amateur mathematicians.

The same date carries Fred Wilson. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
University of Western Australia
Awards
Hugo Award for Best Novella (1999), John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1995) and Premio Gigamesh (2000)
Nominated for
Philip K. Dick Award and Hugo Award for Best Novelette
Citizenship
Australia
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
31

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.

How Greg wants to be loved

Greg wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Greg gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Greg creates

How Greg makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Greg creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Greg is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Greg is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Greg fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Greg's birth date. Working below.

Where Greg sits

Six lines

Greg’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Greg

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Greg

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Greg

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Greg

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Greg

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Greg

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Greg Egan

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Perth on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Greg’s birth-night reference starKaus Australisblue-white · SagittariusKaus Australis, in Sagittarius. A blue-white star, 85.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Kaus Australis →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 61° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Perth that night

Computed for 31.96°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

Kaus Australis stood nearest the zenith over Perth at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.8° above the horizon in Sagittarius.

The brightest star above the horizon was Rigil Kentaurus in Centaurus, and 71 catalog stars were up in all.

From 32.0°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon up and 62% lit at first quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Perth, Australia
Lives in
Perth

Wikidata records Perth as Greg Egan's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Greg Egan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Greg's chart is

Chart pattern score

13 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl · 1 planet at a critical degree

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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The quick version

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Greg Egan's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 20, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Metal Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Greg Egan was born on August 20, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Greg Egan's birth date, August 20, 1961, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Greg’s chart

Greg’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.7° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.8° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 3.2° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.7° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4.8° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 5° orbSun in Leo · 26°54′☉26°Moon in Sagittarius · 5°43′☽5°Mercury in Virgo · 2°30′☿2°Venus in Cancer · 18°58′♀18°Mars in Libra · 2°00′♂1°Jupiter in Capricorn · 29°09′ · retrograde♃℞29°Saturn in Capricorn · 24°23′ · retrograde♄℞24°Uranus in Leo · 26°12′♅26°Neptune in Scorpio · 8°47′♆8°Pluto in Virgo · 7°28′♇7°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus0.2° to 1.1° orb

    Greg’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb

    Greg’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter2.5° to 3.2° orb

    Greg’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.0° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn4.7° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn4.8° to 6.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.1° to 6.1° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus5.4° to 7.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Greg’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 4°37′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 23°33′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 25°39′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 25°05′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Uranus 0.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.7°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 0.8°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 1.1°
  • Eros square Sun 1.3°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 1.3°
  • Hygiea square Sun 1.8°
  • Chiron opposition Mercury 2.1°
  • Ceres square Uranus 2.7°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 2.9°

Greg’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Greg’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun quintile Neptune 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Uranus quintile Neptune 0.6°
  • Venus quintile Mars 1.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.5°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.8°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.3°

Born the same day as Greg

Fred Wilson was born on August 20, 1961 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Perth, at 32.0°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set at all. Same sky, different lives.

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Greg’s cards

Computed from August 20, 1961. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

9 · Healer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Greg’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q316785 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

The same Greg Egan at Wikipedia, gregegan.net, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Greg Egan.

Quick answers about Greg Egan’s chart

How old is Greg Egan?
Greg Egan is 65 years old, born August 20, 1961 in Perth, Australia.
What zodiac sign is Greg Egan?
Greg Egan is a Leo: born August 20, 1961, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Greg Egan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 20, 1961 birth.
What is Greg Egan's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Greg Egan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Greg Egan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Greg Egan's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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