Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936, Archer City, United States; died 2021), was an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter. McMurtry's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Larry McMurtry’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rat, with 
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Larry McMurtry’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Larry in the U.S.?
#1085
US rank in 2025
~811,148
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Larry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Larry, according to the stars
Core essence
Larry is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Larry needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Larry wants to be loved
Larry wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Larry like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Larry creates
How Larry makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Larry creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Larry is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Larry 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 Larry leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Larry scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Larry's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Larry sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Larry McMurtry's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 3, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Larry McMurtry was born on June 3, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Larry McMurtry's birth date, June 3, 1936, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Larry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Larry McMurtry's date-only chart is Mars square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Larry McMurtry combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Larry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Larry McMurtry, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableMoontrinePluto0.1° to 6.3° orb
Larry’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.5° to 1.2° orb
Larry’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.6° to 1.6° orb
Larry’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.3° to 1.4° orb
Larry’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.4° to 3.1° orb
Larry’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMars1.8° to 2.1° orb
Larry’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 5.5° orb
Larry’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.0° orb
Larry’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.2° to 6.0° orb
Larry’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareNeptune5.6° to 6.1° orb
Larry’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.1° to 7.4° orb
Larry’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.4° to 6.5° orb
Larry’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Larry’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 16°36′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Larry turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 18°45′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Larry is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCancer 26°14′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Larry is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 8°21′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Larry needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Larry that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.5°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 1.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.5°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.6°
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°).
Larry’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. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune7 pts
disposes Saturn; 6 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Larry is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Larry’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 Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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.
T-square onto Neptune · Mars, Jupiter, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.5°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.6°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Larry McMurtry, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Larry’s cards
Every card is computed from June 3, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Larry McMurtry, 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
Larry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q611672, 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 Douglas Peel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Larry McMurtry at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Larry McMurtry.
Quick answers about Larry McMurtry’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Larry McMurtry?
- Larry McMurtry was a Gemini: born June 3, 1936, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
- What was Larry McMurtry's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 3, 1936 birth.
- What time was Larry McMurtry 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.
- What was Larry McMurtry's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the June 3, 1936 birth date.
- What was Larry McMurtry's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 3, 1936 birth date.
- Where was Larry McMurtry's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Larry McMurtry's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
