Janet Kagan
Janet Kagan (born April 18, 1946, New Jersey, United States; died 2008), was an American science fiction author. Kagan is best remembered for Uhura's Song. Kagan's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Janet Kagan’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Janet
Janet Kagan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Janet in the U.S.?
#2791
US rank in 2025
~558,291
Americans share it since 1880
1954
its peak year
Janet ranked 21st among girls and 1,287th among boys in 1946, the year of this birth, with 14,142 American girls and 30 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Janet’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Janet’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1946, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Janet apart
The shelf Janet Kagan is read from: Uhura's Song.
The working life starts in 1985, at 39.
Cause of death is recorded as pulmonary emphysema.
The same date carries Hayley Mills. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Uhura's Song
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Novelette (1993)
- Nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Novelette and Locus Award for Best Collection
- Working from
- 1985
- Cause of death
- pulmonary emphysema
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
What the chart says
Janet, according to the stars
Core essence
Janet leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Janet is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Janet feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Janet needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Janet wants to be loved
Janet wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Janet is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Janet creates
How Janet makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Janet 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: Janet is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Janet is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Janet 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 Janet's birth date. Working below.
Where Janet sits
Six lines
Janet’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Janet Kagan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Jersey 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 New Jersey that night
Computed for 40.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New Jersey was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 84.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 94% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 24° down.
How unusual Janet's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mars · A leaning bowl
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.
Score your own chart →Janet Kagan at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Janet Kagan's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 18, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Janet Kagan was born on April 18, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Janet Kagan's birth date, April 18, 1946, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Janet’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Janet Kagan's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Janet Kagan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Janet’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.5° orb
Janet’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.3° to 2.5° orb
Janet’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb
Janet’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.9° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurytrineMars3.0° to 3.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune4.9° to 5.7° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter5.7° to 6.8° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter6.2° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.7° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 3.0° to 14.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Janet’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 17°22′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 6°53′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 28°38′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 3°49′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 28°05′ (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 Mars 0.1°
- Ceres trine Neptune 0.2°
- Eros trine Mars 0.4°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.4°
- Chiron trine Uranus 2.6°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 2.6°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.8°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 2.9°
Janet’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Janet’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Sun, Jupiter, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.6°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.7°
Born the same day as Janet
Hayley Mills was born on April 18, 1946 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.0°N, the sky above New Jersey stops at −50.0° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Janet
Other writers
- Kay Ryan1945
- Daniel Yergin1947
- Douglas Hofstadter1945
- Michael Levitt1947
- Connie Willis1945
- George Alec Effinger1947
Born in United States
- Ovie CarterAmerican photographer
- Elliot G. JaspinAmerican journalist
- Harold HammAmerican businessman
- Michael MilkenAmerican investor
- Al GreenAmerican singer
- Candice BergenAmerican actress (born 1946)
More charts like Janet’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Herb CaenAmerican newspaper columnist
- Ellen BarryAmerican journalist
- Ellen GoodmanAmerican journalist and writer
Born in Dog years
- Mo IbrahimSudanese-British businessman
- ShroudCanadian streamer
- Frankie GrandeAmerican actor, dancer, singer, producer
Also born on April 18
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Joni ErnstAmerican politician (born 1970)
- Chuck SchumerAmerican politician (born 1950)
- Andrew CuomoGovernor of New York from 2011 to 2021
Other Aries Dog charts
- MacKenzie ScottAmerican philanthropist and novelist
- Jackson WangChinese rapper and singer
- Fatih BirolTurkish economist and energy expert
- Ini EdoNigerian actress
Other Tidal Diplomats
- Mark MateschitzAustrian businessman, Red Bull heir
- Harald LinkThai businessman
- David RubensteinAmerican businessman (born 1949)
- Joe MansuetoAmerican entrepreneur
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Ángel Di MaríaArgentine footballer
- Charles Hard Townes20th-century American physicist
- Lisa GerrardAustralian musician, singer and composer
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Janet’s cards
Computed from April 18, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Janet’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1029714 (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 Janet Kagan at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Janet Kagan.
Quick answers about Janet Kagan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Janet Kagan?
- Janet Kagan was an Aries: born April 18, 1946, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Janet Kagan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 18, 1946 birth.
- What was Janet Kagan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Janet Kagan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Janet Kagan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Janet Kagan's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
