L. Sprague de Camp
L. Sprague de Camp (born November 27, 1907, New York City, United States; died 2000), was an American non- and speculative fiction writer. Camp's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
L. Sprague de Camp’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with L. Sprague de Camp
L. Sprague de Camp’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
What L. Sprague de Camp’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on L (3) and closes on L (3).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
L. Sprague de Camp’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Rose-gold · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1907, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets L. Sprague de Camp apart
L. Sprague de Camp took the International Fantasy Award for Best Non Fiction in 1953, at 46.
Stevens Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1937, at 30.
The grave is at Arlington National Cemetery.
On the family side, L. Sprague de Camp was born to Emma Beatrice de Camp and married Catherine Crook de Camp.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for L. Sprague de Camp: Critics of Theosophy, Conan the Barbarian novelists and H. P. Lovecraft scholars.
Bruce Lee (1940) and Jimi Hendrix (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Stevens Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work (1997), Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (1979) and Pilgrim Award (1998)
- Nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Novella and Locus Award for Best Novelette
- Working from
- 1937
- Buried at
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 30
What the chart says
L. Sprague de Camp, according to the stars
Core essence
L. Sprague de Camp is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of L. Sprague de Camp is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How L. Sprague de Camp wants to be loved
L. Sprague de Camp 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 L. Sprague de Camp and watch them fall for you again.
How L. Sprague de Camp creates
How L. Sprague de Camp makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. L. Sprague de Camp creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: L. Sprague de Camp is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. L. Sprague de Camp 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 L. Sprague de Camp leads without needing to do it alone.
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. L. Sprague de Camp 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 L. Sprague de Camp's birth date. Working below.
Where L. Sprague de Camp sits
Six lines
L. Sprague de Camp’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 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 L. Sprague de Camp
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Almach stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.1° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon down and 51% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
- Lived in
- New York City
Wikidata records New York City as L. Sprague de Camp's home, New York City among them.
The death is recorded at Plano, Collin County in 2000.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for L. Sprague de Camp: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual L.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · T-square onto Sun
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 →Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
L. Sprague de Camp's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 27, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
L. Sprague de Camp was born on November 27, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
L. Sprague de Camp's birth date, November 27, 1907, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in L. Sprague de Camp’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in L. Sprague de Camp's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- L. Sprague de Camp combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
L. Sprague de Camp’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMoonoppositionMars0.1° to 5.8° orb
L. Sprague de Camp’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.1° to 0.7° orb
L. Sprague de Camp’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.5° to 1.8° orb
L. Sprague de Camp’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.0° to 1.6° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn1.7° to 2.9° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.5° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.8° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.5° to 5.2° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.2° to 5.5° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.5° to 6.1° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
L. Sprague de Camp’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 13°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra or Virgo during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 9°01′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 19°12′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 25°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 0.2°
- Chiron square Mercury 1.1°
- Eros square Uranus 1.7°
L. Sprague de Camp’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in L. Sprague de Camp’s chart
Grand trine · Mercury, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.1°
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L. Sprague de Camp’s cards
Computed from November 27, 1907. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
L. Sprague de Camp’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q316313 (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 Cimon Avaro, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same L. Sprague de Camp 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 L. Sprague de Camp.
Quick answers about L. Sprague de Camp’s chart
- What zodiac sign was L. Sprague de Camp?
- L. Sprague de Camp was a Sagittarius: born November 27, 1907, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was L. Sprague de Camp's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 27, 1907 birth.
- What was L. Sprague de Camp's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was L. Sprague de Camp's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was L. Sprague de Camp's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was L. Sprague de Camp's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
