Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (born November 20, 1923, Springs, South Africa; died 2014), was a South African writer. Gordimer is best remembered for The Conservationist, The Pickup and July's People. Gordimer's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Officer of the Legion of Honour and WH Smith Literary Award.
Nadine Gordimer’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Pig, with 
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Nadine Gordimer’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Nadine in the U.S.?
#1627
US rank in 2025
~53,424
Americans share it since 1880
1958
its peak year
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Nadine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Nadine, according to the stars
Core essence
Nadine does not do surface. The core of Nadine is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Nadine is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Nadine runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Nadine needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Nadine wants to be loved
Nadine wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Nadine and watch them fall for you again.
How Nadine creates
How Nadine makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Nadine creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Nadine 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Nadine 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 Nadine leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Nadine fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Nadine's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Nadine Gordimer at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Nadine Gordimer's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 20, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Nadine Gordimer was born on November 20, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Nadine Gordimer's birth date, November 20, 1923, 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 Nadine’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nadine Gordimer's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Earth.
- Nadine Gordimer combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Nadine’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Nadine Gordimer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Aries 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.
stableMoonoppositionMars0.0° to 7.5° orb
Nadine’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 1.2° orb
Nadine’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.5° to 1.2° orb
Nadine’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareUranus1.0° to 2.2° orb
Nadine’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableUranustrinePluto1.5° orb
Nadine’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.6° to 2.4° orb
Nadine’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.2° to 2.8° orb
Nadine’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineNeptune4.5° to 5.8° orb
Nadine’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.6° to 6.1° orb
Nadine’s drive and discipline act as one.
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 2.6° to 13.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Nadine’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 17°10′ (moves 0.03° 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: Nadine may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAquarius 9°23′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Nadine is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosLeo 22°40′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Nadine loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaPisces 4°36′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Nadine needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 16°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Nadine is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Eros sextile Mars 1.4°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.9°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.6°
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°).
Nadine’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. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Nadine is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Nadine’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 Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, 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 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nadine Gordimer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Nadine’s cards
Every card is computed from November 20, 1923, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Nadine Gordimer, 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
Nadine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q47619, 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 Boberger. Photo: Bengt Oberger, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nadine Gordimer 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.
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Quick answers about Nadine Gordimer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Nadine Gordimer?
- Nadine Gordimer was a Scorpio: born November 20, 1923, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig.
- What was Nadine Gordimer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 20, 1923 birth.
- What time was Nadine Gordimer 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 Nadine Gordimer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the November 20, 1923 birth date.
- What was Nadine Gordimer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 20, 1923 birth date.
- Where was Nadine Gordimer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Nadine Gordimer's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
