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Portrait of N. K. Jemisin

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, Chinese zodiac is 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.

What N. K. Jemisin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

5

Soul Urge · freedom

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on N (5) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

N. K. Jemisin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets N. K. Jemisin apart

William Golding (1911) and Jimmy Fallon (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where N. K. Jemisin sits

Six lines

N. K. Jemisin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
N. K. Jemisin

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
N. K. Jemisin

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

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
N. K. Jemisin

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

PracticalVisionary
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
N. K. Jemisin

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to N. K. Jemisin

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

N. K. Jemisin’s birth-night reference starFawarisblue-white · CygnusFawaris, in Cygnus. A blue-white star, 86.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Fawaris →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 18.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Iowa City that night

Computed for 41.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Iowa City at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.4° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 41.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 88% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 21° down.

How unusual N.'s chart is

Chart pattern score

52 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Virgo · No Water planets · A leaning bowl

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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Virgo Sun

Helps 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.

What Virgo means →

Water Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

N. K. Jemisin was born on September 19, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 11

Intuition before evidence.

N. K. Jemisin's birth date, September 19, 1972, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in N. K. Jemisin’s chart

N. K. Jemisin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.1° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 0.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.2° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.3° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.6° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.8° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.1° orbSun in Virgo · 26°50′☉26°Moon in Aquarius · 11°54′☽11°Mercury in Virgo · 26°44′☿26°Venus in Leo · 12°29′♀12°Mars in Virgo · 22°45′♂22°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 29°29′♃29°Saturn in Gemini · 20°27′♄20°Uranus in Libra · 17°19′♅17°Neptune in Sagittarius · 2°50′♆2°Pluto in Libra · 1°42′♇1°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableMarssquareSaturn2.0° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter2.2° to 3.1° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.2° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus3.1° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.4° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars3.9° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.1° to 5.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto4.4° to 5.3° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 15°54′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 8°41′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 23°52′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 23°22′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 23°14′ (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 Mars 0.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.4°

N. K. Jemisin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Venus; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in N. K. Jemisin’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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N. K. Jemisin’s cards

Computed from September 19, 1972. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The High Priestess

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

11 · Visionary

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

N. K. Jemisin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2427544 (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 Laura Hanifin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by N. K. Jemisin.

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.
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 is N. K. Jemisin's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is N. K. Jemisin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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