Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (born November 11, 1922, Indianapolis, United States; died 2007), was an American author. Vonnegut is best remembered for Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle. Vonnegut's honours include Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame and Purple Heart.
Kurt Vonnegut’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dog, with 
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Kurt Vonnegut’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Kurt in the U.S.?
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~86,054
Americans share it since 1880
1964
its peak year
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Kurt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Kurt, according to the stars
Core essence
Kurt does not do surface. The core of Kurt is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Kurt is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Kurt needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Kurt needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Kurt wants to be loved
Kurt 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 Kurt and watch them fall for you again.
How Kurt creates
How Kurt makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Kurt creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Kurt 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 9 is the humanitarian. Kurt is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Kurt goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Kurt's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Kurt sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Kurt Vonnegut's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 11, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Kurt Vonnegut's birth date, November 11, 1922, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Kurt’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kurt Vonnegut's date-only chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Kurt Vonnegut combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Kurt’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Kurt Vonnegut, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Leo 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.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Kurt’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileMars0.0° to 0.9° orb
Kurt’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.2° to 1.5° orb
Kurt’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareUranus0.8° to 1.0° orb
Kurt’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableUranustrinePluto1.3° orb
Kurt’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
Kurt’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareMars3.7° to 4.5° orb
Kurt’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.1° to 4.2° orb
Kurt’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineUranus4.6° to 6.2° orb
Kurt’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareJupiter4.7° to 5.2° orb
Kurt’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrineUranus6.1° to 6.4° orb
Kurt’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Kurt’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°47′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Kurt may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 9°33′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Kurt is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosSagittarius 12°40′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Kurt attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 0°50′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Kurt is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 4°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Kurt carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- Ceres square Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 1.4°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.5°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.6°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.7°
- Eros square Uranus 3.0°
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°).
Kurt’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. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Kurt is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Kurt’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 Scorpio · 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 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.
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kurt Vonnegut, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Kurt’s cards
Every card is computed from November 11, 1922, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Kurt Vonnegut, 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
Kurt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q49074, 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 Bernard Gotfryd / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kurt Vonnegut at Wikipedia, vonnegut.com, IMDb, X 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.
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Quick answers about Kurt Vonnegut’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Kurt Vonnegut?
- Kurt Vonnegut was a Scorpio: born November 11, 1922, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog.
- What was Kurt Vonnegut's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 11, 1922 birth.
- What time was Kurt Vonnegut 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.
- How tall was Kurt Vonnegut?
- Kurt Vonnegut was 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Kurt Vonnegut's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the November 11, 1922 birth date.
- What was Kurt Vonnegut's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 11, 1922 birth date.
- Where was Kurt Vonnegut's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Kurt Vonnegut's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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