Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler (born June 22, 1947, Pasadena, United States; died 2006), was an American science fiction writer. Butler is best remembered for Patternist series, Lilith's Brood and Kindred. Butler's honours include National Women's Hall of Fame, Nebula Award for Best Novel and Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
Octavia E. Butler’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Octavia
Octavia E. Butler’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Octavia in the U.S.?
#308
US rank in 2025
~24,117
Americans share it since 1880
2021
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1947, Octavia came 1,570th, carried by 37 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Octavia’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on O (6) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 3: tact against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Octavia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange
The record
What sets Octavia apart
Meryl Streep (1949) and Cyndi Lauper (1953) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Octavia, according to the stars
Core essence
Octavia feels the room before entering it. The core of Octavia is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Octavia, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Octavia wants to be loved
Octavia wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Octavia like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Octavia creates
How Octavia makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Octavia creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Octavia 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 4 is the builder. Octavia is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Octavia is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Octavia's birth date. Working below.
Where Octavia sits
Six lines
Octavia’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Octavia E. Butler
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pasadena on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Pasadena that night
Computed for 34.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Pasadena was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 81.2° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 81 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Pasadena at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 25% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.
How unusual Octavia's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Octavia E. Butler's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 22, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Octavia E. Butler was born on June 22, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Octavia E. Butler's birth date, June 22, 1947, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Octavia’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Octavia E. Butler's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Octavia E. Butler combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Octavia’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextileMars0.3° to 0.4° orb
Octavia’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextilePluto0.3° to 1.5° orb
Octavia’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
Octavia’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineNeptune2.2° to 3.4° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn3.3° to 4.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.2° to 6.0° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.5° to 6.2° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Octavia’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 2°22′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 25°58′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 6°28′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 7°41′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 15°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.3°
- Eros trine Saturn 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.6°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.6°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.5°
Octavia’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Octavia’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.
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.4°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
More people like Octavia
Other writers
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- Connie Willis1945
- Lorri Neilsen Glenn1947
- Janet Kagan1946
- John Steffler1947
- Peter Singer1946
Born in United States
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- Woody JohnsonAmerican businessman, ambassador
- Jeff WorleyAmerican writer (b.1947)
- Rae ArmantroutAmerican poet (born 1947)
More charts like Octavia’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Jordyn WieberAmerican artistic gymnast
- RodriSpanish association football player (born 1996)
- Paolo MaldiniItalian association football player (born 1968)
Born in Pig years
- Megan Thee StallionAmerican rapper, singer and songwriter
- Ben ShapiroAmerican conservative political commentator
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Also born on June 22
- Meryl Streep1949
- Cyndi Lauper1953
- Madeleine Vionnet1876
- Lee Min-ho1987
- Adam Schiff1960
- Johnny Devenanzio1982
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- James LevineAmerican conductor and pianist
- Carol BurnettAmerican actress, comedian and singer (born 1933)
- George BurnsAmerican comedian, actor, writer and singer
Other Cancer Pig charts
- Samuel Eliot MorisonUnited States admiral and historian
- E. B. WhiteAmerican author
- Dave BarryAmerican writer
- George AbbottAmerican writer and director
Other Tidal Pioneers
- Chelsea HandlerAmerican comedian, actress, author and talk show host
- Tracee Ellis RossAmerican actress
- Ryan HigaAmerican Internet personality and actor
- YGAmerican rapper and actor
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Peso PlumaMexican singer
- Hanni PhamAustralian singer
- MY HUSBANDAmerican actor and singer
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Octavia’s cards
Computed from June 22, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
4 · Architect☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Octavia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q239739 (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 Nikolas Coukouma, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Octavia E. Butler.
Quick answers about Octavia E. Butler’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Octavia E. Butler?
- Octavia E. Butler was a Cancer: born June 22, 1947, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Octavia E. Butler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 22, 1947 birth.
- What was Octavia E. Butler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Octavia E. Butler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Octavia E. Butler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Octavia E. Butler's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
