Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress (born January 20, 1948, Buffalo, United States), aged 78, is an American science fiction writer (1948-). Kress is best known for Beggars in Spain. Kress's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella, Nebula Award for Best Short Story and Theodore Sturgeon Award.
Nancy Kress’s zodiac sign is Capricorn or Aquarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Fire Pig, with 
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How common is the name Nancy in the U.S.?
#967
US rank in 2025
~1,007,393
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Nancy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Nancy, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Nancy is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Nancy needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Nancy wants to be loved
Nancy wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Nancy, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Nancy creates
How Nancy makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Nancy builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Nancy 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Nancy is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Nancy 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 Nancy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Capricorn or Aquarius Sun
Nancy Kress was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Nancy Kress was born on January 20, 1948, which falls in a Fire 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 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Nancy Kress's birth date, January 20, 1948, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Nancy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nancy Kress' date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Nancy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Nancy Kress, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Taurus 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.
stableMoonsquarePluto0.1° to 6.8° orb
Nancy’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
Nancy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.4° to 1.7° orb
Nancy’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.5° to 3.2° orb
Nancy’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.0° orb
Nancy’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.6° to 4.3° orb
Nancy’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusoppositionMars2.7° to 4.1° orb
Nancy’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.5° to 3.7° orb
Nancy’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrinePluto5.0° to 5.2° orb
Nancy’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.6° to 6.7° orb
Nancy’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Nancy’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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 22°45′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Nancy carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresAries 28°56′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Nancy looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 25°45′ (moves 0.61° 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. Nancy is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 22°13′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Nancy needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 9°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Nancy at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about 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.
- Ceres square Sun 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.0°
- Eros trine Uranus 3.0°
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°).
Nancy’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. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
5 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Nancy is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Nancy’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 biquintile Uranus 0.8°
- Sun biquintile Mars 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nancy Kress, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Nancy’s family here
One relative of Nancy Kress also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Nancy’s cards
Every card is computed from January 20, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Nancy Kress, 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
Nancy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q238438, 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 Catriona Sparks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nancy Kress at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nancy Kress.
Quick answers about Nancy Kress’s chart
- How old is Nancy Kress?
- Nancy Kress is 78 years old, born January 20, 1948 in Buffalo, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Nancy Kress?
- Nancy Kress was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- What is Nancy Kress's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 20, 1948 birth.
- What time was Nancy Kress 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 Nancy Kress's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the January 20, 1948 birth date.
- What is Nancy Kress's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 20, 1948 birth date.
- Where is Nancy Kress's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Nancy Kress's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
