Greg Grandin
Greg Grandin (born September 13, 1962, Brooklyn, United States), aged 64, is an American historian. Grandin is best known for The End of the Myth. Grandin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Bancroft Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Greg Grandin’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Greg
Greg Grandin’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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
In 1962, 5,365 American boys and 6 girls were registered Greg — 77th among boys and 6,121st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Greg’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on G (7) and closes on G (7).
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
22 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
The record
What sets Greg apart
Roald Dahl (1916) and Niall Horan (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Greg, according to the stars
Core essence
Greg notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Greg is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Greg is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Greg needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Greg wants to be loved
Greg wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Greg even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Greg creates
How Greg makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Greg builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Greg is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Greg is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Greg does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Greg Grandin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 4.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 21° down.
How unusual Greg's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · No Fire planets
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Greg Grandin's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 13, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Greg Grandin was born on September 13, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
Greg Grandin's birth date, September 13, 1962, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Greg’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Greg Grandin's date-only chart is Venus trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Greg Grandin combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Greg’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
Greg’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.3° to 1.2° orb
Greg’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
Greg’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineNeptune2.1° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.3° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.5° to 4.3° orb
stableVenussextilePluto3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.9° to 5.8° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.3° to 5.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Greg’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 7°54′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 12°25′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 18°01′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 26°40′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 5°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.3°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.0°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.1°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.8°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.9°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.3°
Greg’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Greg’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Uranus, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.1°
More people like Greg
Other historians
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- David Kertzer1948
- Bill Dedman1960
- Thomas K. McCraw1940
- Walter A. McDougall1946
- Farah Mendlesohn1968
Born in United States
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Greg’s cards
Computed from September 13, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
22 · Master Builder☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Greg’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5605626 (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.
Portrait by Slowking4, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Greg Grandin at Wikipedia 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 Grandin.
Quick answers about Greg Grandin’s chart
- How old is Greg Grandin?
- Greg Grandin is 64 years old, born September 13, 1962 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Greg Grandin?
- Greg Grandin is a Virgo: born September 13, 1962, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Greg Grandin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 13, 1962 birth.
- What is Greg Grandin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is Greg Grandin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Greg Grandin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Greg Grandin's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
