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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Monkey, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Mary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mary sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Mary Robinette Kowal, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Libra or Scorpio 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.
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
Mary’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareMars2.0° to 2.6° orb
Mary’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableVenusoppositionUranus2.1° to 3.0° orb
Mary’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarssextilePluto2.3° to 2.8° orb
Mary’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineUranus3.0° to 3.2° orb
Mary’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
Mary’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.0° to 5.1° orb
Mary’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextileNeptune5.0° orb
Mary’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrinePluto5.7° to 5.9° orb
Mary’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 0°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Mary may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°01′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Mary caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAquarius 26°15′ (moves 0.61° 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. Mary is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaAries 11°13′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Mary feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 26°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Mary that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.7°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.8°
- Eros square Neptune 2.3°
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°).
Mary’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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Mary is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Mary’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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mary Robinette Kowal, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on February 8
- Dmitri Mendeleev1834
- James Dean1931
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Other Evergreen Scholars
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Mary’s cards
Every card is computed from February 8, 1969, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Mary Robinette Kowal, 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
Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4225496, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey.
- 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 time was Mary Robinette Kowal 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 Mary Robinette Kowal's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the February 8, 1969 birth date.
- What is Mary Robinette Kowal's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 8, 1969 birth date.
- 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.
