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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), Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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

#83

US rank in 2025

~258,479

Americans share it since 1912

2005

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1948, Ian came 720th, carried by 87 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ian’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

7

Soul Urge · understanding

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on I (9) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Ian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Ian apart

Benazir Bhutto (1953) and Chris Pratt (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working 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 →

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

The sky over Aldershot that night

Computed for 51.25°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Aldershot was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 87.6° up.

Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

At 51.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Aldershot at all: they sit past the −38.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, had already set; the Sun sat -2° below the horizon.

How unusual Ian's chart is

Chart pattern score

51 / 100 · Unusual

A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · Venus retrograde

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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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.

What the Rat means →

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.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Ian’s chart

Ian’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.2° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 4.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn3.9° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus4.1° to 5.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune5.1° to 5.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune5.9° to 6.5° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.9° to 6.0° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter6.1° to 7.2° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 19°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 26°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 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°

Ian’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Ian’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.

  • 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°

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Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite

Ian’s cards

Computed from June 21, 1948. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

4 · Architect
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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190379 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Ian McEwan's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Ian McEwan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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