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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, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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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.?

#2271

US rank in 2025

~86,054

Americans share it since 1894

1964

its peak year

In 1922, 32 American boys were registered Kurt — 1,297th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kurt’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

8

Soul Urge · achievement

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on K (2) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Kurt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Kurt apart

Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) and Demi Moore (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Kurt sits

Six lines

Kurt’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Kurt

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kurt

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Kurt

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kurt

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Kurt

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kurt

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Kurt Vonnegut

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Indianapolis on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Kurt’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 82.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 41° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Indianapolis that night

Computed for 39.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Indianapolis was Mirach, in Andromeda, 82.8° up.

Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Indianapolis sits at 39.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −50.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Indianapolis on any night.

Sun 51° below the horizon, Moon down and 52% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Kurt's chart is

Chart pattern score

71 / 100 · Rare

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · Grand trine · T-square onto Mercury

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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Kurt Vonnegut in 15 seconds

Scorpio Sun

Intense, 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.

What Scorpio means →

Water Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Kurt Vonnegut's birth date, November 11, 1922, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Kurt’s chart

Kurt’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.4° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.4° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.9° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.9° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.3° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 2.4° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 2.8° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3° orbSun in Scorpio · 18°34′☉18°Moon in Leo · 11°14′☽11°Mercury in Scorpio · 4°19′☿4°Venus in Sagittarius · 8°49′ · retrograde♀℞8°Mars in Aquarius · 8°25′♂8°Jupiter in Scorpio · 3°27′♃3°Saturn in Libra · 15°11′♄15°Uranus in Pisces · 9°42′ · retrograde♅℞9°Neptune in Leo · 18°10′♆18°Pluto in Cancer · 11°03′ · retrograde♇℞11°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableUranustrinePluto1.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars3.7° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto4.1° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus4.6° to 6.2° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter4.7° to 5.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus6.1° to 6.4° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°47′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 9°33′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 12°40′ (moves 0.63° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 0°50′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 4°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Kurt’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Kurt’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
  • Venus quincunx Pluto 2.2°

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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained

Kurt’s cards

Computed from November 11, 1922. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kurt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q49074 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kurt Vonnegut.

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.
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.
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.
What was Kurt Vonnegut's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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