Martha Wells
Martha Wells (born September 1, 1964, Fort Worth, United States), aged 62, is an American science fiction and fantasy author born in Fort Worth, Texas 1964. Wells is best known for Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries and Ile-Rien. Wells's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel and Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Martha Wells’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Martha
Martha Wells’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Martha in the U.S.?
#713
US rank in 2025
~553,732
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
The SSA recorded 4,448 American girls and 15 boys named Martha in 1964: 95th among girls and 2,168th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Martha’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on M (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Martha’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
The record
What sets Martha apart
Gloria Estefan (1957) and Jungkook (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Martha, according to the stars
Core essence
Martha notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Martha is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Martha is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Martha needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Martha wants to be loved
Martha wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Martha gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Martha creates
How Martha makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Martha 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: Martha is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Martha is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Martha does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Martha's birth date. Working below.
Where Martha sits
Six lines
Martha’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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Martha Wells
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth that night
Computed for 32.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Fort Worth was Sheliak, in Lyra, 83.0° up.
Of the 79 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Fort Worth sits at 32.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −57.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Fort Worth on any night.
Sun 14° below the horizon, Moon down and 21% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Martha's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Virgo · Only two elements
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 →Martha Wells at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Martha Wells's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 1, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Martha Wells was born on September 1, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Martha Wells's birth date, September 1, 1964, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Martha’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Martha Wells' date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Martha Wells combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Martha’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Cancer 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
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Martha’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.2° to 2.1° orb
Martha’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.7° to 1.6° orb
Martha’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.8° to 2.1° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter4.0° to 4.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.1° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune5.8° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire or Air signs.
Martha’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 16°47′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 24°25′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 17°43′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 8°27′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 25°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.8°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.3°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 3.0°
Martha’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Mars
Configurations in Martha’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.9°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.9°
More people like Martha
Other writers
- Ales Bialiatski1962
- Peter Thiel1967
- Anne Enright1962
- David S. Rohde1967
- Dan Fagin1963
- Adam Johnson1967
Born in United States
- Sandra BullockAmerican actress and film producer
- Samantha MarkleAmerican memoirist and mental health counselor
- Lori LoughlinAmerican actress (born 1964)
- Daniel SnyderAmerican businessman (born 1964)
- T. J. StilesAmerican biographer and historian
- Calista FlockhartAmerican actress
More charts like Martha’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Timothy ZahnAmerican fantasy and science fiction novelist
- Wang DuluChinese wuxia author, creator of Crane Iron Pentalogy series
- C. J. CherryhUnited States science fiction and fantasy author
Born in Dragon years
- James BrolinAmerican actor (born 1940)
- Guillermo del ToroMexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
- Jack WarnerAmerican film executive
Also born on September 1
- Gloria Estefan1957
- Jungkook1997
- An Yu-jin2003
- Zendaya1996
- Romeo Beckham2002
- Tom Kaulitz1989
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Cody SimpsonAustralian singer
- Michael UrieAmerican actor (born 1980)
- Nev SchulmanAmerican television host, producer and photographer
Other Virgo Dragon charts
- Zandra RhodesBritish fashion designer
- Patrick CollisonIrish entrepreneur
- Katrina BowdenAmerican actress and model
- Oliver HudsonAmerican actor
Other Tidal Healers
- David Del TrediciAmerican composer
- Quinto MaganiniAmerican conductor, composer and musicologist
- Edward P. JonesAmerican novelist, short story writer
- Elmer RiceAmerican playwright
Famous people with Life Path 3
- CeeLo GreenAmerican singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and record producer
- Ashley GreeneAmerican actress
- Felicity HuffmanAmerican actress
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Martha’s cards
Computed from September 1, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Martha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6774606 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Martha Wells at Wikipedia, marthawells.com, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Martha Wells.
Quick answers about Martha Wells’s chart
- How old is Martha Wells?
- Martha Wells is 62 years old, born September 1, 1964 in Fort Worth, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Martha Wells?
- Martha Wells is a Virgo: born September 1, 1964, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Martha Wells's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 1, 1964 birth.
- What is Martha Wells's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Martha Wells's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Martha Wells's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Martha Wells's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
