Kelly Link
Kelly Link (born July 19, 1969, Miami, United States), aged 57, is an American writer. Link's honours include O. Henry Award, Nebula Award for Best Novelette and Theodore Sturgeon Award.
Kelly Link’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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Kelly Link’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Kelly in the U.S.?
#852
US rank in 2025
~556,365
Americans share it since 1880
1977
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Kelly’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Kelly, according to the stars
Core essence
Kelly feels the room before entering it. The core of Kelly is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Kelly, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Kelly is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Kelly needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Kelly wants to be loved
Kelly wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Kelly like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Kelly creates
How Kelly makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Kelly creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Kelly is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Kelly 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Kelly has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Kelly's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Kelly sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Kelly Link's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 19, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Kelly Link was born on July 19, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Kelly Link's birth date, July 19, 1969, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Kelly’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kelly Link's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Kelly Link combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Kelly’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Kelly Link, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° Virgo 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.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.4° orb
Kelly’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb
Kelly’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.1° to 6.3° orb
Kelly’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.3° to 1.2° orb
Kelly’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.6° to 3.8° orb
Kelly’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMarssextileUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
Kelly’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.0° orb
Kelly’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.9° to 4.1° orb
Kelly’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
Kelly’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextilePluto3.3° to 4.3° orb
Kelly’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.4° to 4.2° orb
Kelly’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSunsextileUranus3.4° to 4.3° orb
Kelly’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Kelly’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 ℞Aries 6°50′ (moves 0.01° 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: Kelly may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 6°22′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Kelly is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosGemini 20°26′ (moves 0.85° 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. Kelly is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaGemini 1°46′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Kelly needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Kelly guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Hygiea opposition Mars 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.2°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.7°
- Eros square Pluto 2.5°
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°).
Kelly’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. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Neptune; 6 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
6 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Kelly is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Kelly’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.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kelly Link, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Rooster years
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Kelly’s cards
Every card is computed from July 19, 1969, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Kelly Link, 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
Kelly’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1190926, 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 Cory Doctorow from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kelly Link at Wikipedia, kellylink.net 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 Kelly Link.
Quick answers about Kelly Link’s chart
- How old is Kelly Link?
- Kelly Link is 57 years old, born July 19, 1969 in Miami, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Kelly Link?
- Kelly Link is a Cancer: born July 19, 1969, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rooster.
- What is Kelly Link's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 19, 1969 birth.
- What time was Kelly Link 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 Kelly Link's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the July 19, 1969 birth date.
- What is Kelly Link's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 19, 1969 birth date.
- Where is Kelly Link's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kelly Link's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Neptune; 6 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
