Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold (born November 2, 1949, Columbus, United States), aged 76, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~335,594
Americans share it since 1880
1927
its peak year
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Lois’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Lois sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Lois McMaster Bujold, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Pisces or Aries 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.
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
Lois’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
Lois’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineUranus4.6° to 5.7° orb
Lois’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
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
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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 8°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Lois building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresLibra 29°31′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Lois is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosAquarius 7°29′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Lois is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 2°28′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Lois carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Lois carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.3°
- Eros square Sun 2.5°
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°).
Lois’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. ♇ 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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Lois is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Lois’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Lois McMaster Bujold, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Lois’s cards
Every card is computed from November 2, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Lois McMaster Bujold, 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
Lois’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229369, 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 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. 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.
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Quick answers about Lois McMaster Bujold’s chart
- How old is Lois McMaster Bujold?
- Lois McMaster Bujold is 76 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- 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 time was Lois McMaster Bujold 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 is Lois McMaster Bujold's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the November 2, 1949 birth date.
- What is Lois McMaster Bujold's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 2, 1949 birth date.
- 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.
