N. K. Jemisin
N. K. Jemisin (born September 19, 1972, Iowa City, United States), aged 54, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Jemisin is best known for The Broken Earth and The Inheritance Trilogy. Jemisin's honours include MacArthur Fellows Program, Locus Award for Best First Novel and Bob Morane award for best foreign novel.
N. K. Jemisin’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
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N. K. Jemisin’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
N. K. Jemisin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
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What the chart says
N. K. Jemisin, according to the stars
Core essence
N. K. Jemisin notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of N. K. Jemisin is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, N. K. Jemisin needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What N. K. Jemisin needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How N. K. Jemisin wants to be loved
N. K. Jemisin wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore N. K. Jemisin openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How N. K. Jemisin creates
How N. K. Jemisin makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. N. K. Jemisin creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: N. K. Jemisin is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. N. K. Jemisin 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means N. K. Jemisin channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from N. K. Jemisin's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
N. K. Jemisin's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 19, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
N. K. Jemisin was born on September 19, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
N. K. Jemisin's birth date, September 19, 1972, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in N. K. Jemisin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in N. K. Jemisin's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- N. K. Jemisin combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
N. K. Jemisin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for N. K. Jemisin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Aquarius 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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.5° orb
N. K. Jemisin’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 6.6° orb
N. K. Jemisin’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
N. K. Jemisin’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.9° to 3.6° orb
N. K. Jemisin’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareSaturn2.0° to 2.6° orb
N. K. Jemisin’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsquareJupiter2.2° to 3.1° orb
N. K. Jemisin’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.2° orb
N. K. Jemisin’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSaturntrineUranus3.1° orb
N. K. Jemisin’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.4° to 4.6° orb
N. K. Jemisin’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.9° to 4.3° orb
N. K. Jemisin’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.1° to 5.9° orb
N. K. Jemisin’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.4° to 5.3° orb
N. K. Jemisin’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
N. K. Jemisin’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 ℞Aries 15°54′ (moves 0.04° 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: N. K. Jemisin may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLibra 8°41′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. N. K. Jemisin is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 23°52′ (moves 0.29° 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. N. K. Jemisin is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 23°22′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has N. K. Jemisin carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 23°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. N. K. Jemisin is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.6°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.4°
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°).
N. K. Jemisin’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. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: N. K. Jemisin 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 N. K. Jemisin’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 Virgo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 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 quintile Uranus 0.2°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for N. K. Jemisin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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N. K. Jemisin’s cards
Every card is computed from September 19, 1972, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for N. K. Jemisin, 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
N. K. Jemisin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2427544, 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 Laura Hanifin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same N. K. Jemisin 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.
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Quick answers about N. K. Jemisin’s chart
- How old is N. K. Jemisin?
- N. K. Jemisin is 54 years old, born September 19, 1972 in Iowa City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is N. K. Jemisin?
- N. K. Jemisin is a Virgo: born September 19, 1972, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
- What is N. K. Jemisin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 19, 1972 birth.
- What time was N. K. Jemisin 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 N. K. Jemisin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the September 19, 1972 birth date.
- What is N. K. Jemisin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 19, 1972 birth date.
- Where is N. K. Jemisin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is N. K. Jemisin's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
