Michael Swanwick
Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950, Philadelphia, United States), aged 75, is an American science fiction author (born 1950). Swanwick is best known for Vacuum Flowers, Stations of the Tide and Dogfight. Swanwick's honours include Theodore Sturgeon Award, Nebula Award for Best Novel and Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Michael Swanwick’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Tiger, with 
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Michael Swanwick’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Michael in the U.S.?
#21
US rank in 2025
~4,448,633
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
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Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
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What the chart says
Michael, according to the stars
Core essence
Michael does not do surface. The core of Michael 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 Michael is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Michael is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Michael needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Michael wants to be loved
Michael wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Michael even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Michael creates
How Michael makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Michael creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Michael is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Michael 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Michael does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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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 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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Michael Swanwick at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Michael Swanwick's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 18, 1950, 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.
Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Michael Swanwick was born on November 18, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Michael Swanwick's birth date, November 18, 1950, 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 Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Swanwick's date-only chart is Mars opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Michael Swanwick combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Michael Swanwick, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Pisces 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.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Michael’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.0° to 1.3° orb
Michael’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareJupiter1.1° to 2.3° orb
Michael’s affections grind against their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Michael’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileSaturn2.3° to 3.5° orb
Michael’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareJupiter2.4° to 3.3° orb
Michael’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSunsextileSaturn3.6° to 4.5° orb
Michael’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquarePluto5.4° to 6.4° orb
Michael’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 1.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 3.3° to 15.7° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileSaturnorb from 5.0° to 6.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Michael’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 21°18′ (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 Michael building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 3°45′ (moves 0.37° 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 Michael caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosScorpio or Sagittarius during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Michael is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 7°42′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Michael is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°41′ (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 Michael 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.
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.8°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.2°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Chiron trine Pluto 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 2.8°
- Eros conjunction Venus 2.9°
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°).
Michael’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. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Michael 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 Michael’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.
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.4°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Michael Swanwick, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Michael’s cards
Every card is computed from November 18, 1950, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Michael Swanwick, 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
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q455510, 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 Mike VanHelder, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michael Swanwick at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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 Michael Swanwick.
Quick answers about Michael Swanwick’s chart
- How old is Michael Swanwick?
- Michael Swanwick is 75 years old, born November 18, 1950 in Philadelphia, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Michael Swanwick?
- Michael Swanwick is a Scorpio: born November 18, 1950, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger.
- What is Michael Swanwick's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 18, 1950 birth.
- What time was Michael Swanwick 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 Michael Swanwick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the November 18, 1950 birth date.
- What is Michael Swanwick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 18, 1950 birth date.
- Where is Michael Swanwick's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Michael Swanwick's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
