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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Pig, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~24,117
Americans share it since 1880
2021
its peak year
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Octavia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, 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 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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Octavia E. Butler, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Leo or Virgo 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.
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
Octavia’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileSaturn3.3° to 4.4° orb
Octavia’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb
Octavia’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.7° orb
Octavia’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.2° to 6.0° orb
Octavia’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.5° to 6.2° orb
Octavia’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquarePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
Octavia’s growth grinds against their depths.
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
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 ℞Scorpio 2°22′ (moves 0.02° 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 Octavia carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresAries 25°58′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Octavia looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 6°28′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Octavia attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 7°41′ (moves 0.32° 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 Octavia needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 15°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Octavia is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for 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.
- 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°
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°).
Octavia’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. ☽ 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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Octavia is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Octavia’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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Octavia E. Butler, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Octavia’s cards
Every card is computed from June 22, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Octavia E. Butler, 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
Octavia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q239739, 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 Nikolas Coukouma, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Octavia E. Butler at Wikipedia, octaviabutler.com, IMDb, Instagram 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig.
- 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 time was Octavia E. Butler 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 Octavia E. Butler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the June 22, 1947 birth date.
- What was Octavia E. Butler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 22, 1947 birth date.
- 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.
