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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Kelly
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
Of the names registered in 1969, Kelly came 15th among girls and 115th among boys, carried by 16,328 American girls and 2,791 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kelly’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
5
Soul Urge · freedom
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on K (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kelly’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Kelly apart
Benedict Cumberbatch (1976) and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Kelly sits
Six lines
Kelly’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Kelly Link
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Miami 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 Miami that night
Computed for 25.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Miami at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.7° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
The brightest star above the horizon was Rigil Kentaurus in Centaurus, and 79 catalog stars were up in all.
From 25.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 26% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 10° down.
How unusual Kelly's chart is
Chart pattern score
41 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · 2 planets at a critical degree · 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.
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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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° Virgo 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
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
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.6° to 3.8° orb
stableMarssextileUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter2.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.9° to 4.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableSunsextilePluto3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.4° to 4.2° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.4° to 4.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°50′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 6°22′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 20°26′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 1°46′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Kelly’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Kelly’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.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 2.0°
More people like Kelly
Other writers
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- Molly Ringwald1968
- Selina Tusitala Marsh1971
- Mary Robinette Kowal1969
- Samantha Power1970
- Ted Chiang1967
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More charts like Kelly’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Tyler SteenAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Bradley ChubbAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Rodney Thomas IIAmerican football player (born 1998)
Born in Rooster years
- Zhang XiaolongChinese computer programmer, known for creating WeChat and Foxmail
- Len BlavatnikBritish-American business magnate
- Miriam AdelsonAmerican-Israeli physician and business billionaire (born in 1945)
Also born on July 19
- Benedict Cumberbatch1976
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow1921
- Jared Padalecki1982
- Jon Jones1987
- Howard Schultz1953
- Karl Jacobs1998
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Payton PritchardAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Hugo GonzálezSpanish basketball player (born 2006)
- Tre JonesAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Other Cancer Rooster charts
- Shiv NadarIndian businessman
- Fred AgainBritish singer-songwriter and record producer
- Michael SorrentinoAmerican television personality
- Douglas LeoneAmerican businessman
Other Evergreen Diplomats
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf24th president of Liberia
- Jane GoodallEnglish primatologist and anthropologist
- James DeanAmerican actor
- Salman KhanIndian actor and producer
Famous people with Life Path 6
- David RubensteinAmerican businessman (born 1949)
- Jeffrey LurieAmerican football owner, CEO, film producer
- Joe MansuetoAmerican entrepreneur
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Kelly’s cards
Computed from July 19, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
6 · Guardian☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kelly’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1190926 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Kelly Link's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Kelly Link's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
