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Miguel Ángel Asturias

Miguel Ángel Asturias (born October 19, 1899, Guatemala City; died 1974), was a Guatemalan writer and diplomat. Asturias is best remembered for Mulata de tal and Leyendas de Guatemala. Asturias's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Order of Augusto César Sandino and Lenin Peace Prize.

Miguel Ángel Asturias’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Miguel Ángel Asturias’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Miguel in the U.S.?

#212

US rank in 2025

~191,562

Americans share it since 1880

2007

its peak year

Miguel ranked 539th in 1899, the year of this birth, with 14 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Miguel’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

1

Soul Urge · independence

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Miguel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Amber · Blush · Gold

The record

What sets Miguel apart

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910) and John Lithgow (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Miguel, according to the stars

Core essence

Miguel makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Miguel is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Miguel is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Miguel needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Miguel wants to be loved

Miguel 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 Miguel even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Miguel creates

How Miguel makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Miguel creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Miguel is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Miguel is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Miguel 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 Miguel's birth date. Working below.

Where Miguel sits

Six lines

Miguel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Miguel

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Miguel

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Miguel

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Miguel

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Miguel

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Miguel

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Guatemala City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

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The sky over Guatemala City that night

Computed for 14.64°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Guatemala City at 9 p.m. that evening: Markab of Pegasus, within 1.5° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 80 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 14.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Sun 49° below the horizon, Moon up and 98% lit at full moon.

How unusual Miguel's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Scorpio · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets

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.

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Libra Sun

Beauty matters. So does balance.

Miguel Ángel Asturias's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 19, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Earth Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Miguel Ángel Asturias was born on October 19, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 11

Bright signal, thin skin.

Miguel Ángel Asturias's birth date, October 19, 1899, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Miguel’s chart

Miguel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.8° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 1.2° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 2.3° orbSaturn faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.2° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.4° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 4.3° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 7° orbSaturn faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 7.2° orbSun in Libra · 26°08′☉26°Moon in Taurus · 7°11′☽7°Mercury in Scorpio · 8°21′☿8°Venus in Scorpio · 4°54′♀4°Mars in Scorpio · 19°40′♂19°Jupiter in Scorpio · 15°23′♃15°Saturn in Sagittarius · 19°44′♄19°Uranus in Sagittarius · 5°51′♅5°Neptune in Gemini · 26°55′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Gemini · 16°31′ · retrograde♇℞16°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonoppositionMercury0.1° to 7.5° orb

    Miguel’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb

    Miguel’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.2° to 3.3° orb

    Miguel’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.3° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter4.0° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter6.4° to 7.7° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.1° to 7.2° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 1.3° to 15.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 3.1° to 17.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 4.4° to 17.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 5.8° to 19.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Miguel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 10°39′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 1°17′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 16°12′ (moves 0.70° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 3°20′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 26°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.7°
  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 0.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.6°

Miguel’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Miguel’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Mercury, Venus, Mars, JupiterThree 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.

  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 0.2°
  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.1°
  • Mars biquintile Neptune 1.3°

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Miguel’s cards

Computed from October 19, 1899. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Miguel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q75603 (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 Dominique Roger, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Miguel Ángel Asturias at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Miguel Ángel Asturias.

Quick answers about Miguel Ángel Asturias’s chart

What zodiac sign was Miguel Ángel Asturias?
Miguel Ángel Asturias was a Libra: born October 19, 1899, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Miguel Ángel Asturias's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 19, 1899 birth.
What was Miguel Ángel Asturias's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Miguel Ángel Asturias's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Miguel Ángel Asturias's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Miguel Ángel Asturias's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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