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), Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Nancy
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
Of the names registered in 1948, Nancy came 7th among girls and 1,120th among boys, carried by 29,411 American girls and 41 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nancy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on N (5) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nancy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Nancy apart
Buzz Aldrin (1930) and Bill Maher (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
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The sky over Buffalo that night
Computed for 42.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Buffalo at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 6.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Buffalo on any night.
The Moon, 67% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 41° below the horizon.
How unusual Nancy's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · Five planets retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.6° to 4.3° orb
stableVenusoppositionMars2.7° to 4.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.6° to 6.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 22°45′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 28°56′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 25°45′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 22°13′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 9°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Nancy’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Nancy’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.8°
- Sun biquintile Mars 1.1°
Nancy’s family here
One relative of Nancy Kress also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Also born on January 20
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Kingsley AmisEnglish novelist, poet, critic and teacher
- Anna BurnsNorthern Irish writer
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Famous people with Life Path 7
- Víctor MuñozSpanish association football player (born 2003)
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From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
Nancy’s cards
Computed from January 20, 1948. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nancy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q238438 (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 Catriona Sparks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nancy Kress at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Nancy Kress's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Nancy Kress's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
