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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~553,732
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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Martha’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Martha sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Martha Wells, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Cancer 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.
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
Martha’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.8° to 2.1° orb
Martha’s affections and drive act as one.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.9° to 2.9° orb
Martha’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.9° to 3.9° orb
Martha’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.4° to 3.5° orb
Martha’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssextileJupiter4.0° to 4.6° orb
Martha’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.1° to 5.0° orb
Martha’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.2° to 5.3° orb
Martha’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineNeptune5.8° to 6.4° orb
Martha’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 16°47′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Martha absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 24°25′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Martha is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosVirgo 17°43′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Martha is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaCancer 8°27′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Martha is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 25°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Martha leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Martha’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Martha is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Martha’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.
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 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.9°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Martha Wells, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Martha’s cards
Every card is computed from September 1, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Martha Wells, 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
Martha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6774606, 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
- 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 time was Martha Wells 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 Martha Wells's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 1, 1964 birth date.
- What is Martha Wells's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 1, 1964 birth date.
- 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.
