Lawrence Watt-Evans
Lawrence Watt-Evans (born July 26, 1954, Arlington, United States), aged 72, is an American writer. Watt-Evans's honours include Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
Lawrence Watt-Evans’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Horse, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Lawrence
Lawrence Watt-Evans’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Lawrence in the U.S.?
#520
US rank in 2025
~463,357
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
Lawrence ranked 39th among boys and 2,106th among girls in 1954, the year of this birth, with 9,606 American boys and 26 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lawrence’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on L (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lawrence’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
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 1954, 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 Lawrence apart
Lawrence Watt-Evans took the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1988, at 34.
Training came by way of Princeton University.
The working life starts in 1980, at 26.
Wikipedia's editors put Lawrence Watt-Evans under People from Arlington, Massachusetts, Novelists from Massachusetts and American fantasy writers.
Carl Jung (1875) and Sandra Bullock (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Short Story (1988)
- Nominated for
- Nebula Award for Best Short Story and Locus Award for Best Short Story
- Working from
- 1980
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 7
What the chart says
Lawrence, according to the stars
Core essence
Lawrence is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Lawrence is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Lawrence processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Lawrence needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Lawrence wants to be loved
Lawrence wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Lawrence and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Lawrence creates
How Lawrence makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Lawrence 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: Lawrence is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Lawrence is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Lawrence has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Lawrence's birth date. Working below.
Where Lawrence sits
Six lines
Lawrence’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 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 Lawrence Watt-Evans
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Arlington 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 Arlington that night
Computed for 42.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Arlington at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 13.8° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.4°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 −47.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 10% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 8° down.
How unusual Lawrence's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · Mars retrograde
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Lawrence Watt-Evans's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 26, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Lawrence Watt-Evans was born on July 26, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Lawrence Watt-Evans's birth date, July 26, 1954, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Lawrence’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lawrence Watt-Evans' date-only chart is Sun square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Lawrence Watt-Evans combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Lawrence’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Gemini 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
stableSunsquareSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Lawrence’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.4° to 1.1° orb
Lawrence’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.5° to 1.4° orb
Lawrence’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableUranussquareNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus1.6° to 1.8° orb
stableMarstrinePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Lawrence’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 25°23′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 14°14′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 24°25′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 20°30′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 4°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.0°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.4°
- Eros square Pluto 0.4°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.8°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 1.7°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.9°
Lawrence’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☽ Moon3 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Lawrence’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.
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Sun biquintile Mars 1.5°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.7°
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Also born on July 26
- Carl Jung1875
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- Jacinda Ardern1980
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- Paul J. CrutzenDutch climatologist
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Other Tidal Lightkeepers
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Lawrence’s cards
Computed from July 26, 1954. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lawrence’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2095351 (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.
The same Lawrence Watt-Evans at Wikipedia and watt-evans.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lawrence Watt-Evans.
Quick answers about Lawrence Watt-Evans’s chart
- How old is Lawrence Watt-Evans?
- Lawrence Watt-Evans is 72 years old, born July 26, 1954 in Arlington, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Lawrence Watt-Evans?
- Lawrence Watt-Evans is a Leo: born July 26, 1954, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Lawrence Watt-Evans's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 26, 1954 birth.
- What is Lawrence Watt-Evans's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Lawrence Watt-Evans's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Lawrence Watt-Evans's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lawrence Watt-Evans's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
