Larry Niven
Larry Niven (born April 30, 1938, Los Angeles, United States), aged 88, is an American writer (born 1938). Niven is best known for Ringworld and The Mote in God's Eye. Niven's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Larry Niven’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Larry
Larry Niven’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
In 1938, 12,394 American boys and 40 girls were registered Larry — 16th among boys and 1,153rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Larry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on L (3) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against 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 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets Larry apart
Kirsten Dunst (1982) and Claude Shannon (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Larry, according to the stars
Core essence
Larry is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Larry is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Larry is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Larry needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Larry creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Larry is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Niven
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening: Zosma of Leo, within 14.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Los Angeles sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Los Angeles at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 26° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual Larry's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl
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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Larry Niven's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 30, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Larry Niven was born on April 30, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Larry Niven's birth date, April 30, 1938, 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 Niven's date-only chart is Mercury square Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Larry Niven combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Larry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 25° Taurus 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
stableMercurysquarePluto1.8° to 2.1° orb
Larry’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.0° to 2.5° orb
Larry’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareJupiter2.2° to 3.3° orb
Larry’s affections grind against their growth.
stableVenussextilePluto2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.6° to 4.1° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter6.3° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 1.4° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 2.7° to 17.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Larry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 27°44′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 18°50′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 24°52′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 19°48′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 3°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.5°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.8°
Larry’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Larry’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.3°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 1.4°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
More people like Larry
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Born in United States
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- Charles WuorinenAmerican composer
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Fellow Taurus suns
- James StewartAmerican actor and military officer
- Tim RothBritish actor
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Born in Tiger years
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- Antoine Winfield Jr.American football safety
Also born on April 30
- Kirsten Dunst1982
- Claude Shannon1916
- Ana de Armas1988
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- Jane Campion1954
- Kunal Nayyar1981
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- Frankie GrandeAmerican actor, dancer, singer, producer
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Larry’s cards
Computed from April 30, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Larry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q316610 (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 Ceridwen, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Larry Niven 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 Niven.
Quick answers about Larry Niven’s chart
- How old is Larry Niven?
- Larry Niven is 88 years old, born April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Larry Niven?
- Larry Niven is a Taurus: born April 30, 1938, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Larry Niven's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 30, 1938 birth.
- What is Larry Niven's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Larry Niven's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Larry Niven's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Larry Niven's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
