Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Kowal (born February 8, 1969, Raleigh, United States), aged 57, is an American writer and puppeteer. Kowal is best known for Evil Robot Monkey. Kowal's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novel, Astounding Award for Best New Writer and Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
Mary Robinette Kowal’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Mary
Mary Robinette Kowal’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Mary in the U.S.?
#125
US rank in 2025
~4,156,654
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
In 1969, 19,850 American girls and 108 boys were registered Mary — 8th among girls and 755th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mary’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
The record
What sets Mary apart
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834) and James Dean (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Mary, according to the stars
Core essence
Mary is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Mary is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Mary wants to be loved
Mary wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Mary creates
How Mary makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Mary builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Mary is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Mary is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Mary runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Mary's birth date. Working below.
Where Mary sits
Six lines
Mary’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Mary Robinette Kowal
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Raleigh 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 Raleigh that night
Computed for 35.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Raleigh at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 9.2° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
Raleigh sits at 35.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Raleigh at all: they sit past the −54.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 60% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.
How unusual Mary's chart is
Chart pattern score
19 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Mary Robinette Kowal's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 8, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Mary Robinette Kowal was born on February 8, 1969, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Mary Robinette Kowal's birth date, February 8, 1969, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Mary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mary Robinette Kowal's date-only chart is Venus opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto.
- Mary Robinette Kowal combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Mary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableVenusoppositionJupiter0.1° to 1.1° orb
Mary’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.6° to 1.5° orb
Mary’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.7° to 2.0° orb
Mary’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.9° orb
stableSunsquareMars2.0° to 2.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus2.1° to 3.0° orb
stableMarssextilePluto2.3° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune5.0° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto5.7° to 5.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Mary’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 0°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°01′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 26°15′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 11°13′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 26°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.7°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.8°
- Eros square Neptune 2.3°
Mary’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Mary’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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.0°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 1.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.6°
More people like Mary
Other writers
- Peter Thiel1967
- Charlie Jane Anders1969
- Ree Drummond1969
- Samantha Power1970
- Jamie Foxx1967
- Jon Meacham1969
Born in United States
- Ree DrummondAmerican chef
- Kimberly GuilfoyleAmerican attorney and political campaign advisor (born 1969)
- Bobby BrownAmerican R&B singer (born 1969)
- Todd Chrisleystar of the reality show Chrisley Knows Best
- Dave GrohlAmerican rock musician
- Robert Sean LeonardAmerican actor
More charts like Mary’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Daniel CarlsonAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Justin ReidAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Travis EtienneAmerican football player (born 1999)
Born in Monkey years
- Philip Showalter HenchAmerican physician
- David TrimbleFirst Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002
- Robert S. MullikenAmerican physicist, chemist and botanical collector
Also born on February 8
- Dmitri Mendeleev1834
- James Dean1931
- Mauricio Macri1959
- Klay Thompson1990
- Anderson .Paak1986
- Seth Green1974
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Gigi HadidAmerican fashion model and television personality
- Iga ŚwiątekPolish tennis player
- Logan LermanAmerican actor
Other Aquarius Monkey charts
- Gabriel BatistutaArgentine association football player
- Josh BrolinAmerican actor
- Netta BarzilaiIsraeli singer
- Lisa Marie PresleyAmerican singer-songwriter
Other Evergreen Scholars
- Frederik ObermaierGerman journalist
- Peter BalakianArmenian-American writer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
- David KertzerAmerican historian and anthropologist
- Karl ShapiroAmerican poet and essayist
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Nathan LaneAmerican actor
- Sachet EngineerIndian actor
- Natascha McElhoneBritish actress
From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Mary’s cards
Computed from February 8, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4225496 (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 Yanmega2, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mary Robinette Kowal at Wikipedia, maryrobinettekowal.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mary Robinette Kowal.
Quick answers about Mary Robinette Kowal’s chart
- How old is Mary Robinette Kowal?
- Mary Robinette Kowal is 57 years old, born February 8, 1969 in Raleigh, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mary Robinette Kowal?
- Mary Robinette Kowal is an Aquarius: born February 8, 1969, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Mary Robinette Kowal's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 8, 1969 birth.
- What is Mary Robinette Kowal's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mary Robinette Kowal's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mary Robinette Kowal's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mary Robinette Kowal's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
