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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Larry
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
Of the names registered in 1936, Larry came 25th among boys and 1,125th among girls, carried by 7,611 American boys and 40 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Larry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on L (3) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Larry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1936, 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 Larry apart
Larry McMurtry took the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1986, at 50.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of North Texas and Rice University.
The working life starts in 1961, at 25.
Cause of death is recorded as heart failure.
On the family side, Larry McMurtry was raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Larry McMurtry: People from Archer City, Texas, American chick lit writers and Historians from Texas.
Rafael Nadal (1986) and Désiré Doué (2005) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of North Texas, Rice University and Archer City High School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (2006), Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay (2005) and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1986)
- Nominated for
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
- Working from
- 1961
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- American English and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 32
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. Working below.
Where Larry sits
Six lines
Larry’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Larry McMurtry
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Archer 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 Archer City that night
Computed for 33.59°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Archer City was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 80.8° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
From 33.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Archer City at all: they sit past the −56.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 4° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Archer City, United States
- Lived in
- Wichita Falls
Wikidata records Wichita Falls as Larry McMurtry's home, against Archer City as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Archer City, Archer County in 2021.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Larry McMurtry: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Larry's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · 4-planet stellium in Gemini
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 →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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.4° to 3.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars1.8° to 2.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 5.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.0° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.2° to 6.0° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune5.6° to 6.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.1° to 7.4° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.4° to 6.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 16°36′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 18°45′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 26°14′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 8°21′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Larry’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Larry’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.5°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.6°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
More people like Larry
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Born in United States
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- Fred ChappellAmerican poet, novelist
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- Louis Gossett Jr.American actor
- Steve ReichAmerican composer (born 1936)
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on June 3
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Fellow Yang Fire day masters
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Famous people with Life Path 1
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Larry’s cards
Computed from June 3, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Larry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q611672 (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 Douglas Peel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Larry McMurtry 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 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.
- 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 was Larry McMurtry's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Larry McMurtry's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
