Judith Merril
Judith Merril (born January 21, 1923, Boston, United States; died 1997), was an American science fiction writer and editor. Merril's honours include Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
Judith Merril’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dog, with 
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Judith Merril’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Judith in the U.S.?
#790
US rank in 2025
~455,955
Americans share it since 1880
1943
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Judith’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Judith, according to the stars
Core essence
Judith is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Judith is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Judith 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 Judith 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 Judith wants to be loved
Judith wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Judith and watch them fall for you again.
How Judith creates
How Judith 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. Judith 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: Judith 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Judith is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Judith leads without needing to do it alone.
Computed from Judith's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Judith sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Judith Merril in 15 seconds
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Judith Merril's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 21, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Judith Merril was born on January 21, 1923, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Judith Merril's birth date, January 21, 1923, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Judith’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Judith Merril's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- Judith Merril combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Judith’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Judith Merril, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Judith’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileMars0.3° to 0.6° orb
Judith’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
Judith’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.2° to 1.6° orb
Judith’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrinePluto1.5° orb
Judith’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineNeptune2.1° to 3.1° orb
Judith’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.3° to 2.6° orb
Judith’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.8° orb
Judith’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareUranus3.0° to 3.8° orb
Judith’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb
Judith’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.1° to 5.4° orb
Judith’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupitertrinePluto6.4° to 6.5° orb
Judith’s growth flows straight into their depths.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Judith’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.
⚷ ChironAries 13°19′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Judith may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 8°28′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Judith caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°57′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Judith is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 28°56′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Judith is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 12°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Judith carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- Chiron trine Venus 1.3°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.7°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.8°
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°).
Judith’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. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Judith is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Judith’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.
Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 Mars 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Judith Merril, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Judith’s family here
One relative of Judith Merril also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Judith’s cards
Every card is computed from January 21, 1923, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Judith Merril, 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
Judith’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q276304, 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.
The same Judith Merril at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Judith Merril.
Quick answers about Judith Merril’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Judith Merril?
- Judith Merril was an Aquarius: born January 21, 1923, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog.
- What was Judith Merril's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 21, 1923 birth.
- What time was Judith Merril 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 was Judith Merril's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 21, 1923 birth date.
- What was Judith Merril's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 21, 1923 birth date.
- Where was Judith Merril's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Judith Merril's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
