Kij Johnson
Kij Johnson (born January 20, 1960, Harlan, United States), aged 66, is an American writer. Johnson's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella, Theodore Sturgeon Award and Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
Kij Johnson’s zodiac sign is Capricorn or Aquarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Kij
What Kij’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on K (2) and closes on J (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kij’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Terracotta
The record
What sets Kij apart
Buzz Aldrin (1930) and Bill Maher (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Kij, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Kij cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Kij needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Kij wants to be loved
Kij 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 Kij and watch them fall for you again.
How Kij creates
How Kij makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Kij creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Kij is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Kij 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 Kij leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Kij does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Kij's birth date. Working below.
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The sky over Harlan that night
Computed for 41.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Harlan was Capella, in Auriga, 82.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Harlan at all: they sit past the −48.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon down and 56% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Kij's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Capricorn · A bowl chart · No Air planets
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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Capricorn or Aquarius Sun
Kij Johnson was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Pig
Earth PigGenerous to the last coin.
Kij Johnson was born on January 20, 1960, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Kij Johnson's birth date, January 20, 1960, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Kij’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kij Johnson's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
Kij’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Libra 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
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.3° to 1.3° orb
Kij’s affections and growth act as one.
stableMarstrinePluto0.5° to 1.3° orb
Kij’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineUranus1.7° to 2.9° orb
Kij’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 4.2° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune3.8° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.0° to 6.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn6.6° to 7.2° orb
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Kij’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 25°36′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 17°16′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 27°37′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 28°01′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 17°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Eros conjunction Sun 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.7°
Kij’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Kij’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, Mars, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.9°
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Kij’s cards
Computed from January 20, 1960. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kij’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3138815 (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 Johan Jönsson (Julle), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kij Johnson at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kij Johnson.
Quick answers about Kij Johnson’s chart
- How old is Kij Johnson?
- Kij Johnson is 66 years old, born January 20, 1960 in Harlan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Kij Johnson?
- Kij Johnson was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Kij Johnson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 20, 1960 birth.
- What is Kij Johnson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Kij Johnson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Kij Johnson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kij Johnson's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
