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), and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Earth Pig, with 
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Kij’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
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Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Kij Johnson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Libra 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.
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
Kij’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrineUranus3.0° to 3.2° orb
Kij’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb
Kij’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 4.2° orb
Kij’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileNeptune3.8° to 4.5° orb
Kij’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrinePluto6.0° to 6.1° orb
Kij’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn6.6° to 7.2° orb
Kij’s drive and discipline act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 25°36′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Kij making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 17°16′ (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 Kij caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCapricorn 27°37′ (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. Kij is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 28°01′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Kij at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 17°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Kij that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Eros conjunction Sun 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.7°
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°).
Kij’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. ♄ 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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Kij is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Kij’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.
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 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.
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kij Johnson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Kij’s cards
Every card is computed from January 20, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
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
No birth time is on public record for Kij Johnson, 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
Kij’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3138815, 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 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. 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 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. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- 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 time was Kij Johnson 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 Kij Johnson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 20, 1960 birth date.
- What is Kij Johnson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 20, 1960 birth date.
- 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.
