Murray Leinster
Murray Leinster (born June 16, 1896, Norfolk, United States; died 1975), was a Novelist, short story writer. Leinster's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novelette and Retro Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Murray Leinster’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.How compatible are you with Murray Leinster?
Your birthday, just below, gives your match percentage with Murray. Under a minute.
Your AsterNym Match
?%Your score is waiting.
Two details and you have your number with Murray. Under a minute, and it is real astrology, not a quiz.
Your result includes:
- · Your compatibility percentage
- · What attracts you to each other
- · What you would bring to the match
- · Where you might clash
- · Whether you share lucky numbers, colours, stones or seasons
Murray Leinster’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Murray in the U.S.?
#2633
US rank in 2025
~22,299
Americans share it since 1880
1922
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Murray’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Murray, according to the stars
Core essence
Murray is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Murray needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Murray wants to be loved
Murray wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Murray like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Murray creates
How Murray makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Murray 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: Murray 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Murray is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Murray leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Murray gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Murray's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Murray sits
Six lines. Tap where you sit on each.
Murray’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.
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 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 Murray Leinster
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Norfolk on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Murray Leinster's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 16, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Murray Leinster was born on June 16, 1896, which falls in a Fire 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 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Murray Leinster's birth date, June 16, 1896, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Murray’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Murray Leinster's date-only chart is Venus sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Murray Leinster combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Murray’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Murray Leinster, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Leo or Virgo 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
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
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.
stableVenussextileMars0.2° to 0.7° orb
Murray’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.8° to 1.2° orb
Murray’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.8° to 1.5° orb
Murray’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.0° to 2.2° orb
Murray’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileMars1.6° to 2.7° orb
Murray’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.8° to 3.4° orb
Murray’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersextilePluto4.2° to 4.4° orb
Murray’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.3° to 4.7° orb
Murray’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.7° to 5.0° orb
Murray’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.5° orb
Murray’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.1° to 6.4° orb
Murray’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.5° to 7.7° orb
Murray’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Murray’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 ℞Libra 20°36′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Murray is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresAries 1°22′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Murray looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 1°27′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Murray is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaAries 27°47′ (moves 0.26° 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 Murray feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Murray carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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 trine Venus 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.3°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.5°
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°).
Murray’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. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
5 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Murray 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 Murray’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 Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune, 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.
Yod onto Uranus · Venus, Mars, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.6°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 1.0°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Murray Leinster, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Murray
Other screenwriters
- Leslie Howard1893
- Thornton Wilder1897
- Morrie Ryskind1895
- James Cagney1899
- John P. Marquand1893
- Ruth Gordon1896
Born in United States
- Morrie RyskindAmerican activist and entertainer
- Ruth GordonAmerican actress and writer
- Robert E. SherwoodAmerican writer
- Bernard DeVotoAmerican historian and author
- Dickinson W. RichardsAmerican physician, Nobel Prize recipient
- Oliver Waterman LarkinAmerican art historian
More charts like Murray’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Kenny PickettAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Alex BachmanAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Azeez OjulariAmerican football player (born 2000)
Born in Monkey years
- George Jankoactor
- Mary FitzgeraldAmerican real estate agent
- Hannah StockingAmerican internet personality and actress
Also born on June 16
- Tupac Shakur1971
- Barbara McClintock1902
- Joseph Schooling1995
- Camila Morrone1997
- Siya Kolisi1991
- Fish Leong1978
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Martina GedeckGerman actress and voice actress
- Michael MadsenAmerican actor
- William RedfieldAmerican actor
Other Gemini Monkey charts
- Walter DurantyAmerican journalist
- Marvin HamlischAmerican composer and conductor
- Gene RobertsAmerican journalist
- Linda PastanAmerican writer
Other Gilded Storytellers
- Edward BokDutch-born American editor and writer
- Edmund MorrisAmerican writer
- George AbbottAmerican writer and director
- Jonathan WeinerAmerican nonfiction writer, Professor of Journalism
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Christian B. AnfinsenAmerican biochemist
- Jack SzostakAmerican biologist
- Victor GrignardFrench chemist
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Murray’s cards
Every card is computed from June 16, 1896, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
Tap to flip
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Murray Leinster, 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
Murray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q550449, 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 Jacket design by I. Heilbron, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Murray Leinster at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Murray Leinster.
Quick answers about Murray Leinster’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Murray Leinster?
- Murray Leinster was a Gemini: born June 16, 1896, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey.
- What was Murray Leinster's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 16, 1896 birth.
- What time was Murray Leinster 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 was Murray Leinster's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the June 16, 1896 birth date.
- What was Murray Leinster's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 16, 1896 birth date.
- Where was Murray Leinster's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Murray Leinster's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
