Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952, Waukegan, United States), aged 74, is an American science fiction writer (born 1952). Robinson is best known for The Ministry for the Future, Three Californias Trilogy and Mars trilogy. Robinson's honours include Nebula Award for Best Novel, John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Kim Stanley Robinson’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Kim
Kim Stanley Robinson’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Kim in the U.S.?
#4228
US rank in 2025
~214,768
Americans share it since 1912
1960
its peak year
In 1952, 2,356 American boys and 1,292 girls were registered Kim — 126th among boys and 216th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kim’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on K (2) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink
The record
What sets Kim apart
Emmy Noether (1882) and Kangana Ranaut (1986) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Kim, according to the stars
Core essence
Kim leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Kim is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Kim wants to be loved
Kim wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Kim, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Kim creates
How Kim makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Kim creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Kim is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Kim is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Kim runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Kim's birth date. Working below.
Where Kim sits
Six lines
Kim’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Kim Stanley Robinson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Waukegan 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 Waukegan that night
Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Waukegan was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 84.4° up.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Waukegan sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Waukegan at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 30° below the horizon, Moon down and 4% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Kim's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · No Earth 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 23, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Kim Stanley Robinson was born on March 23, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Kim Stanley Robinson's birth date, March 23, 1952, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Kim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kim Stanley Robinson's date-only chart is Mercury trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Kim Stanley Robinson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Kim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 12° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableMercurytrinePluto0.3° to 0.7° orb
Kim’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune0.4° to 0.7° orb
Kim’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineUranus0.5° to 1.7° orb
Kim’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.7° to 1.1° orb
stableMarssquarePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.4° to 1.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto1.8° to 2.1° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn7.4° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Kim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 11°57′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 14°24′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 20°36′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 13°11′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Neptune 0.2°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.7°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.9°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 2.1°
Kim’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Kim’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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 sesquiquadrate Mars 0.4°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.4°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 1.4°
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Other writers
- Paula Vogel1951
- Hilary Mantel1952
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Born in United States
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More charts like Kim’s
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- JJ LinSingaporean singer-songwriter
Born in Dragon years
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Also born on March 23
- Emmy Noether1882
- Kangana Ranaut1986
- Chaka Khan1953
- Damon Albarn1968
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- Ayesha Curry1989
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Bonnie WrightBritish actress and filmmaker
- Paula AbdulAmerican singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality
- Luiz Felipe ScolariBrazilian association football player and manager
Other Aries Dragon charts
- James WatsonAmerican molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate
- Reese WitherspoonAmerican actress
- Nigel FarageBritish politician
- Brenda SongAmerican actress and model
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- Kenan YıldızTurkish association football player (born 2005)
- Bara Sapoko NdiayeSenegalese footballer (born 2007)
- Justin ReidAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Jerry TilleryAmerican football player
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Ben BovaAmerican writer
- David KoeppAmerican screenwriter and director (1963-)
- David PeoplesAmerican screenwriter
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Kim’s cards
Computed from March 23, 1952. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q130779 (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 Alain Herzog, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kim Stanley Robinson at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Quick answers about Kim Stanley Robinson’s chart
- How old is Kim Stanley Robinson?
- Kim Stanley Robinson is 74 years old, born March 23, 1952 in Waukegan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Kim Stanley Robinson?
- Kim Stanley Robinson is an Aries: born March 23, 1952, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Kim Stanley Robinson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 23, 1952 birth.
- What is Kim Stanley Robinson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Kim Stanley Robinson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Kim Stanley Robinson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kim Stanley Robinson's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
