Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis (born April 16, 1922, Clapham Common, United Kingdom; died 1995), was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. Amis is best remembered for The Old Devils and Lucky Jim. Amis's honours include Booker Prize, Knight Bachelor and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Kingsley Amis’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Kingsley
Kingsley Amis’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Kingsley in the U.S.?
#1096
US rank in 2025
~8,874
Americans share it since 1907
2016
its peak year
In 1922, 12 American boys were registered Kingsley — 2,569th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kingsley’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
6
Soul Urge · being needed
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on K (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kingsley’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Kingsley apart
Selena (1971) and Akon (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Kingsley, according to the stars
Core essence
Kingsley 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 Kingsley 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 Kingsley wants to be loved
Kingsley wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Kingsley is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Kingsley creates
How Kingsley makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Kingsley builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Kingsley is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Kingsley 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Kingsley 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 Kingsley's birth date. Working below.
Where Kingsley sits
Six lines
Kingsley’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Kingsley Amis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Clapham Common 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 Clapham Common that night
Computed for 51.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Clapham Common was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 82.7° up.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Clapham Common sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Clapham Common on any night.
Sun 9° below the horizon, Moon down and 72% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Kingsley's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Jupiter · Yod onto Uranus
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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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Kingsley Amis's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 16, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Kingsley Amis was born on April 16, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Kingsley Amis's birth date, April 16, 1922, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Kingsley’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kingsley Amis' date-only chart is Venus sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Kingsley Amis combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Kingsley’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 6.1° orb
Kingsley’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Kingsley’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.5° to 1.7° orb
Kingsley’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.6° to 0.8° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.5° to 4.5° orb
stableSuntrineMars2.7° to 3.4° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter3.2° to 5.3° orb
stableVenussextilePluto3.4° to 4.6° orb
stableUranustrinePluto4.0° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMercurytrineMars5.0° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Kingsley’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 14°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 4°18′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 27°08′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 14°35′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 11°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.8°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.4°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.1°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.5°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.6°
Kingsley’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Kingsley’s chart
Yod onto Jupiter · Venus, Uranus, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.4°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.4°
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More charts like Kingsley’s
Fellow Aries suns
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- Michael M. YorkAmerican journalist and lawyer
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on April 16
- Selena1971
- Akon1973
- Anya Taylor-Joy1996
- Sadie Sink2002
- Luol Deng1985
- Alek Wek1977
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Connor HeywardAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Isaiah Pola-MaoAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Jalen McMillanAmerican football player (born 2001)
Other Aries Dog charts
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- Alec BaldwinAmerican actor (born 1958)
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- Suri NoelleAmerican film actress
Other Evergreen Visionarys
- Miles RobinsonAmerican soccer player
- Roger IbañezBrazilian footballer (born 1998)
- Ryan GravenberchDutch association football player (born 2002)
- Michael SvobodaAustrian association football player (1998-)
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Yemi AladeNigerian singer and songwriter
- Ben SimmonsAustralian basketball player
- Joe AlwynEnglish actor
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Kingsley’s cards
Computed from April 16, 1922. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kingsley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q220078 (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.
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Quick answers about Kingsley Amis’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Kingsley Amis?
- Kingsley Amis was an Aries: born April 16, 1922, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Kingsley Amis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 16, 1922 birth.
- What was Kingsley Amis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Kingsley Amis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Kingsley Amis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Kingsley Amis's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
