Jo Walton
Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964, Aberdare, United Kingdom), aged 61, is a Welsh Canadian writer. Walton's honours include World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel and Astounding Award for Best New Writer.
Jo Walton’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Jo Walton
Jo Walton’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Jo Walton in the U.S.?
#4028
US rank in 2025
~180,911
Americans share it since 1881
1954
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,052 American girls and 23 boys named Jo in 1964: 184th among girls and 1,677th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jo Walton’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on J (1) and closes on O (6).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jo Walton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest
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 1964, 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 Jo Walton apart
The Astounding Award for Best New Writer came in 2002, when Jo Walton was 38.
The schooling ran through Howell's School.
Wikipedia files Jo Walton under British women historical novelists, People from Aberdare and Anglo-Welsh novelists.
Andrew Tate (1986) and Zoë Kravitz (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Howell's School
- Awards
- Nebula Award for Best Novel (2012), Hugo Award for Best Novel (2012) and Astounding Award for Best New Writer (2002)
- Nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and Locus Award for Best First Novel
- Citizenship
- Canada and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English and Welsh
- Wikipedia editions
- 25
What the chart says
Jo Walton, according to the stars
Core essence
Jo Walton is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Jo Walton is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Jo Walton 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 Jo Walton 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 Jo Walton wants to be loved
Jo Walton 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 Jo Walton even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Jo Walton creates
How Jo Walton 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. Jo Walton 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: Jo Walton is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Jo Walton 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Jo Walton 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 Jo Walton's birth date. Working below.
Where Jo Walton sits
Six lines
Jo Walton’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Jo Walton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Aberdare 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 Aberdare that night
Computed for 51.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Aberdare was Ruchbah, in Cassiopeia, 81.6° up.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Aberdare sits at 51.7°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Aberdare on any night.
The Moon, 4% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.
How unusual Jo's chart is
Chart pattern score
17 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Jo Walton's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 1, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Jo Walton was born on December 1, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Jo Walton's birth date, December 1, 1964, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Jo Walton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jo Walton's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jo Walton combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Jo Walton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° 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
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune0.3° to 0.4° orb
Jo Walton’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.1° to 2.0° orb
Jo Walton’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto1.6° orb
Jo Walton’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus2.0° to 2.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsquareMars2.8° to 3.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.6° to 4.0° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune3.7° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussextileMars4.1° to 4.9° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.8° to 5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Jo Walton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 14°11′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 18°52′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio or Sagittarius during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 17°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 5°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Eros square Saturn 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Mars 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.5°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.6°
Jo Walton’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Jo Walton’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 semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
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Fellow Sagittarius suns
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- Andrew MukubaZimbabwean American football player (born 2002)
- Ivan Pace Jr.American football player (born 2000)
Born in Dragon years
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- Barış Alper YılmazTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Marco PašalićCroatian-German association football player
Also born on December 1
- Andrew Tate1986
- Zoë Kravitz1988
- Chanel Iman1990
- Robert Irwin2003
- Bette Midler1945
- Janelle Monáe1985
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Trey JemisonAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Koa PeatAmerican basketball player (born 2007)
- JD DavisonAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
Other Sagittarius Dragon charts
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- Anatoly SkurovMining engineer, scientist,design engineer and entrepreneur
- Daniel SnyderAmerican businessman (born 1964)
- Bruce LeeHong Kong–American martial artist and actor
Other Evergreen Healers
- Greta GerwigAmerican actress and filmmaker (born 1983)
- Ashley HamiltonAmerican actor
- Joshua JacksonCanadian actor
- Stephanie MarchAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 6
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Jo Walton’s cards
Computed from December 1, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jo Walton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q438330 (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 Fazalmajid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jo Walton at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jo Walton.
Quick answers about Jo Walton’s chart
- How old is Jo Walton?
- Jo Walton is 61 years old, born December 1, 1964 in Aberdare, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Jo Walton?
- Jo Walton is a Sagittarius: born December 1, 1964, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Jo Walton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 1, 1964 birth.
- What is Jo Walton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jo Walton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jo Walton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jo Walton's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
