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Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan (born June 21, 1948, Aldershot, United Kingdom), aged 78, is a British author (born 1948). McEwan is best known for The Cement Garden and Atonement. McEwan's honours include Booker Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Somerset Maugham Award.

Ian McEwan’s zodiac sign is Gemini or Cancer (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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

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US rank in 2025

~258,479

Americans share it since 1880

2005

its peak year

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Ian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

—

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Your planetary stone, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Gold

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What the chart says

Ian, according to the stars

How Ian wants to be loved

Ian 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. Ian gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Ian creates

How Ian makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Ian creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Ian is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Ian is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Ian channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Ian's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Ian’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 87.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 16° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Gemini or Cancer Sun

Ian McEwan was born on a day when the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Earth Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Ian McEwan was born on June 21, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

Ian McEwan's birth date, June 21, 1948, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Ian’s chart

Ian’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Ian McEwan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.8° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 0.9° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.1° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.3° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.4° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 4° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.1° orbSun in Gemini · 29°57′☉29°Moon in Sagittarius · 29°02′☽29°Mercury in Cancer · 4°02′ · retrograde☿℞4°Venus in Cancer · 4°51′ · retrograde♀℞4°Mars in Virgo · 15°46′♂15°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 23°17′ · retrograde♃℞23°Saturn in Leo · 19°14′♄19°Uranus in Gemini · 26°32′♅26°Neptune in Libra · 10°13′♆10°Pluto in Leo · 13°16′♇13°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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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.

  • stableSunoppositionMoon0.0° to 6.7° orb

    Ian’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.8° orb

    Ian’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus3.0° to 3.9° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb

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

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.2° to 3.4° orb

    Ian’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 4.8° orb

    Ian’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn3.9° to 4.2° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus4.1° to 5.7° orb

    Ian’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune5.1° to 5.7° orb

    Ian’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune5.9° to 6.5° orb

    Ian’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.9° to 6.0° orb

    Ian’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter6.1° to 7.2° orb

    Ian’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

Ian’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 ℞Scorpio 19°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Ian carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 24°41′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Ian feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosGemini 17°14′ (moves 0.87° over the day)

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

    Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Ian is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 20°04′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Ian is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 26°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Ian at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.1°
  • Chiron square Saturn 0.2°
  • Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.4°
  • Eros square Mars 1.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 1.9°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 2.0°

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°).

Ian’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. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun7 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Ian is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Ian’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.2°
  • Mercury quintile Mars 0.3°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 0.6°
  • Venus quintile Mars 1.1°
  • Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 1.7°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.7°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ian McEwan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Ian’s cards

Every card is computed from June 21, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Ian McEwan, 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

Ian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190379, 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 TimDuncan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ian McEwan at Wikipedia, ianmcewan.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 Ian McEwan.

Quick answers about Ian McEwan’s chart

How old is Ian McEwan?
Ian McEwan is 78 years old, born June 21, 1948 in Aldershot, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Ian McEwan?
Ian McEwan was born on a day when the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat.
What is Ian McEwan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 21, 1948 birth.
What time was Ian McEwan 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 is Ian McEwan's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the June 21, 1948 birth date.
What is Ian McEwan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 21, 1948 birth date.
Where is Ian McEwan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ian McEwan's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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