Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951, Richland, United States), aged 75, is an American science fiction novelist (born 1951). Card is best known for The Tales of Alvin Maker, Homecoming Saga and Ender's Saga. Card's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel and Mythopoeic Awards.
Orson Scott Card’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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Orson Scott Card’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Orson in the U.S.?
#1433
US rank in 2025
~2,714
Americans share it since 1880
2023
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Orson’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Orson, according to the stars
Core essence
Orson notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Orson is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Orson wants to be loved
Orson wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Orson and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Orson creates
How Orson makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Orson creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Orson is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Orson is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Orson fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Orson's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Orson sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Orson Scott Card's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 24, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Orson Scott Card was born on August 24, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Orson Scott Card's birth date, August 24, 1951, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Orson’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Orson Scott Card's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Orson Scott Card combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Orson’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Orson Scott Card, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 0.4° orb
Orson’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb
Orson’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
Orson’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.6° to 3.1° orb
Orson’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.2° orb
Orson’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileUranus2.9° to 3.4° orb
Orson’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
Orson’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranussquareNeptune4.9° to 5.0° orb
Orson’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrinePluto6.3° to 6.4° orb
Orson’s growth flows straight into their depths.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 6.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Orson’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 ℞Sagittarius 26°50′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Orson building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 11°40′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Orson is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAries 20°56′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Orson is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 17°14′ (moves 0.18° 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 Orson needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Orson guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 opposition Mercury 1.0°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.0°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 1.5°
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°).
Orson’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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Orson is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Orson’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 Virgo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 0.4°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Orson Scott Card, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Orson
Oscar Hijuelos was born on August 24, 1951 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Orson’s cards
Every card is computed from August 24, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Orson Scott Card, 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
Orson’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q217110, 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 Nihonjoe, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Orson Scott Card at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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 Orson Scott Card’s chart
- How old is Orson Scott Card?
- Orson Scott Card is 75 years old, born August 24, 1951 in Richland, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Orson Scott Card?
- Orson Scott Card is a Virgo: born August 24, 1951, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit.
- What is Orson Scott Card's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 24, 1951 birth.
- What time was Orson Scott Card 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 Orson Scott Card's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the August 24, 1951 birth date.
- What is Orson Scott Card's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 24, 1951 birth date.
- Where is Orson Scott Card's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Orson Scott Card's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
