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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Orson
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
In 1951, 13 American boys were registered Orson — 2,223rd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Orson’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on O (6) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 6: drive against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Orson’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Orson apart
Ender's Saga, Homecoming Saga and The Tales of Alvin Maker. That is the work the name is attached to.
Study took Orson Scott Card to Brigham Young High School and Brigham Young University.
Orson Scott Card was 24 when the work began in 1975.
On the family side, Orson Scott Card was born to Willard Richards Card.
Oscar Hijuelos shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Ender's Saga, Homecoming Saga and The Tales of Alvin Maker
- Educated at
- Brigham Young High School, Brigham Young University and University of Utah
- Awards
- Nebula Award for Best Novel (1987), Hugo Award for Best Novella (1988) and Hugo Award for Best Novel (1986)
- Nominated for
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel
- Working from
- 1975
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 57
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. Working below.
Where Orson sits
Six lines
Orson’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Orson Scott Card
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Richland 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 Richland that night
Computed for 46.28°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Richland at 9 p.m. that evening: Eltanin of Draco, within 6.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
Richland sits at 46.3°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −43.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Richland on any night.
Sun 11° below the horizon, Moon down and 43% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Orson's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Uranus · Venus retrograde
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 →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Taurus or Gemini 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
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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.2° orb
stableVenussextileUranus2.9° to 3.4° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.3° to 6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 26°50′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 11°40′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 20°56′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 17°14′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Mercury 1.0°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.0°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 1.5°
Orson’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Orson’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Born the same day as Orson
Oscar Hijuelos was born on August 24, 1951 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 46.3°N, Richland keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Other Virgo Rabbit charts
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Orson’s cards
Computed from August 24, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Orson’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q217110 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Orson Scott Card.
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.
- 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 is Orson Scott Card's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Orson Scott Card's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
