Pat Cadigan
Pat Cadigan (born September 10, 1953, Schenectady, United States), aged 73, is an American science fiction author. Cadigan's honours include Arthur C. Clarke Award, Hugo Award for Best Novelette and Locus Award for Best Novelette.
Pat Cadigan’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Pat
Pat Cadigan’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Pat in the U.S.?
—
outside the current top list
~66,855
Americans share it since 1880
1941
its peak year
Pat ranked 400th among boys and 556th among girls in 1953, the year of this birth, with 306 American boys and 247 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Pat’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on P (7) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Pat’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1953, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Pat apart
Pat Cadigan took the World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional in 1981, at 28.
Training came by way of University of Kansas and University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Wikipedia's editors put Pat Cadigan under British women short story writers, Postmodern writers and Writers from Schenectady, New York.
The same date carries Amy Irving. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- University of Kansas and University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Awards
- Arthur C. Clarke Award (1992), Hugo Award for Best Novelette (2013) and Locus Award for Best Novelette (2013)
- Nominated for
- Philip K. Dick Award and Nebula Award for Best Novella
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 22
What the chart says
Pat, according to the stars
Core essence
Pat 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 Pat is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Pat cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Pat needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Pat wants to be loved
Pat wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Pat openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Pat creates
How Pat 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. Pat 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: Pat is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Pat is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Pat leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Pat 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 Pat's birth date. Working below.
Where Pat sits
Six lines
Pat’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Pat Cadigan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Schenectady 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 Schenectady that night
Computed for 42.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Schenectady at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 4.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 42.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Schenectady at all: they sit past the −47.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon down and 7% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Pat's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →Pat Cadigan in 15 seconds
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Pat Cadigan's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 10, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Pat Cadigan was born on September 10, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Pat Cadigan's birth date, September 10, 1953, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Pat’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Pat Cadigan's date-only chart is Uranus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Pat Cadigan combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Pat’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Libra 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
stableUranussquareNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb
Pat’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.6° to 2.4° orb
Pat’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.6° orb
Pat’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.0° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter2.6° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.1° to 4.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Pat’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 15°24′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 25°22′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 7°54′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 19°18′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 29°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.7°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 2.0°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.8°
Pat’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Pat’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.
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.6°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
Born the same day as Pat
Amy Irving was born on September 10, 1953 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 42.8°N, the sky above Schenectady stops at −47.2° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Pat
Other writers
- Hilary Mantel1952
- Lawrence Watt-Evans1954
- Anna Quindlen1952
- Megan Marshall1954
- Jayne Anne Phillips1952
- Louise Erdrich1954
Born in United States
- Stanley DruckenmillerAmerican businessman
- Kim BasingerAmerican actress (born 1953)
- Cyndi LauperAmerican singer
- Tom HulceAmerican actor and producer
- William E. MoernerNobel prize winning American chemical physicist
- Victor AmbrosAmerican developmental biologist
More charts like Pat’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Huang RulunChinese billionaire businessman (born 1951)
- Hansjörg WyssSwiss businessman and Democratic megadonor
- Georg StumpfAustrian real estate investor
Born in Snake years
- Brannon Bragatelevision producer
- Anthony BurgessEnglish writer and composer
- Dan WellsAmerican horror writer
Also born on September 10
- Jack Ma1964
- Colin Firth1960
- Karl Lagerfeld1933
- Ryan Phillippe1974
- Sam Kerr1993
- Elsa Schiaparelli1890
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Clint CapelaSwiss basketball player (born 1994)
- Taj GibsonAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
- AJ JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
Other Virgo Snake charts
- Britt StewartAmerican dancer (born 1989)
- Amanda AnisimovaAmerican tennis player
- Emily BearAmerican composer and pianist
- Franz WagnerGerman basketball player (born 2001)
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Wole SoyinkaNigerian writer
- Hugh JackmanAustralian and English actor, singer, and film producer
- KakáBrazilian association football player
- Peter HiggsBritish physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Edmund MorrisAmerican writer
- Robert HassAmerican poet
- Benjamin MoserAmerican linguist, writer
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Pat’s cards
Computed from September 10, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Pat’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q266947 (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 Pat Cadigan at Wikipedia, patcadigan.wordpress.com, 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 Pat Cadigan.
Quick answers about Pat Cadigan’s chart
- How old is Pat Cadigan?
- Pat Cadigan is 73 years old, born September 10, 1953 in Schenectady, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Pat Cadigan?
- Pat Cadigan is a Virgo: born September 10, 1953, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Pat Cadigan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 10, 1953 birth.
- What is Pat Cadigan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Pat Cadigan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Pat Cadigan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Pat Cadigan's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
