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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Murray
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
The SSA recorded 31 American boys named Murray in 1896: 348th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Murray’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
5
Soul Urge · freedom
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Murray’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Murray apart
The Hugo Award for Best Novelette came in 1956, when Murray Leinster was 60.
Wikipedia files Murray Leinster under Writers from Norfolk, Virginia, Screenwriters from Virginia and People of the United States Office of War Information.
Tupac Shakur (1971) and Barbara McClintock (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Novelette (1956) and Retro Hugo Award for Best Novelette (1996)
- Nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Collection and Hugo Award for Best Novel
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 29
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. Working below.
Where Murray sits
Six lines
Murray’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 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.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Norfolk that night
Computed for 36.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Norfolk was Izar, in Boötes, 80.7° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
Norfolk sits at 36.8°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 Norfolk at all: they sit past the −53.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 34% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Norfolk, United States
The death is recorded at Gloucester County, Virginia in 1975.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Murray Leinster: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Murray's chart is
Chart pattern score
78 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Gemini · Yod onto Uranus · 1 unaspected planet
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 →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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Leo or Virgo 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
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
stableMercurysextileMars1.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.8° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto4.2° to 4.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.3° to 4.7° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.7° to 5.0° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.1° to 6.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.5° to 7.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 20°36′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 1°22′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 1°27′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 27°47′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Murray’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Murray’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Murray’s cards
Computed from June 16, 1896. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Murray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q550449 (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 Jacket design by I. Heilbron, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Murray Leinster 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 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.
- 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 was Murray Leinster's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Murray Leinster's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
