Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold (born November 2, 1949, Columbus, United States), aged 77, is an American novelist (born 1949). Bujold is best known for The Vorkosigan Saga. Bujold's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Lois McMaster Bujold’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Lois
Lois McMaster Bujold’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Lois in the U.S.?
#1670
US rank in 2025
~335,594
Americans share it since 1880
1927
its peak year
In 1949, 4,915 American girls and 21 boys were registered Lois — 73rd among girls and 1,648th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lois’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lois’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
The record
What sets Lois apart
Shah Rukh Khan (1965) and David Schwimmer (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Lois, according to the stars
Core essence
Lois does not do surface. The core of Lois is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Lois is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Lois wants to be loved
Lois 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 Lois and watch them fall for you again.
How Lois creates
How Lois 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. Lois 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: Lois is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Lois is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Lois channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Lois's birth date. Working below.
Where Lois sits
Six lines
Lois’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Lois McMaster Bujold
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Columbus 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 Columbus that night
Computed for 39.96°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Columbus was Scheat, in Pegasus, 77.5° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
Columbus sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Columbus at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon up and 93% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Lois'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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Lois McMaster Bujold's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 2, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Lois McMaster Bujold was born on November 2, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Lois McMaster Bujold's birth date, November 2, 1949, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Lois’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lois McMaster Bujold's date-only chart is Mars sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Lois McMaster Bujold combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Lois’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Pisces or Aries 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
stableMoonsquareUranus0.1° to 6.7° orb
Lois’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileUranus0.8° to 1.3° orb
Lois’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.8° to 2.3° orb
Lois’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.0° to 3.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
stableSuntrineUranus4.6° to 5.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 4.1° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 4.3° to 16.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 4.3° to 16.1° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileMarsorb from 5.0° to 6.1° depending on birth time
possibleMercurytrineUranusorb from 5.7° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 6.6° to 18.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Lois’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 8°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 29°31′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 7°29′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 2°28′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.3°
- Eros square Sun 2.5°
Lois’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Lois’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.
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.7°
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More charts like Lois’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Odysseas ElytisGreek poet and art critic
- Carlos Saavedra LamasArgentine politician
- Richard E. TaylorCanadian physicist
Born in Ox years
- Sean BuntingAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Maxx CrosbyAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Jordan ElliottAmerican football defensive tackle
Also born on November 2
- Shah Rukh Khan1965
- David Schwimmer1966
- Larry Fink1952
- Jon M. Chu1979
- Danny Amendola1985
- Karamo Brown1980
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- James GunnAmerican science fiction author
- Orson Scott CardAmerican science fiction novelist (born 1951)
- Avram DavidsonAmerican writer
Other Scorpio Ox charts
- Bruno GuimarãesBrazilian footballer (born 1997)
- Noah FantAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Darnell MooneyAmerican football wide receiver
- Matt HennessyAmerican football center
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Gradey DickAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Cormac RyanAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- DeAndre JordanAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
- Brice SensabaughAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Taylor BranchAmerican historian
- Carl PhillipsAmerican writer and poet (born 1959)
- George PerleAmerican composer
From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
Lois’s cards
Computed from November 2, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lois’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229369 (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 Kyle Cassidy, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lois McMaster Bujold 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 Lois McMaster Bujold.
Quick answers about Lois McMaster Bujold’s chart
- How old is Lois McMaster Bujold?
- Lois McMaster Bujold is 77 years old, born November 2, 1949 in Columbus, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Lois McMaster Bujold?
- Lois McMaster Bujold is a Scorpio: born November 2, 1949, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Lois McMaster Bujold's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 2, 1949 birth.
- What is Lois McMaster Bujold's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Lois McMaster Bujold's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Lois McMaster Bujold's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lois McMaster Bujold's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
