Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson (born November 25, 1926, Bristol, United States; died 2001), was an American science fiction writer. Anderson is best remembered for The Broken Sword and Tau Zero. Anderson's honours include Mythopoeic Awards, Nebula Award for Best Novelette and Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Poul Anderson’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Tiger, with 
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Poul Anderson’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
Poul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Rose-gold · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Poul, according to the stars
Core essence
Poul is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Poul is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Poul needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Poul needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Poul wants to be loved
Poul wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Poul and watch them fall for you again.
How Poul creates
How Poul makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Poul creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Poul is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Poul is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Poul 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 Poul's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Poul sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bristol on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Poul Anderson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 25, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Poul Anderson was born on November 25, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Poul Anderson's birth date, November 25, 1926, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Poul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Poul Anderson's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Poul Anderson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Poul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Poul Anderson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Leo 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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.9° orb
Poul’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.7° orb
Poul’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.9° to 1.2° orb
Poul’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb
Poul’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.1° to 4.0° orb
Poul’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.4° to 4.9° orb
Poul’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableSaturntrineUranus3.5° to 3.6° orb
Poul’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.0° to 5.1° orb
Poul’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareNeptune5.2° to 6.2° orb
Poul’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.7° to 6.9° orb
Poul’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 3.7° to 15.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Poul’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 ℞Aries 28°23′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Poul may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresScorpio 10°14′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Poul is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosAquarius 5°30′ (moves 0.52° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Poul is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaLibra 0°51′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Poul is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 18°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Poul exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Eros square Mars 0.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.7°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.8°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.5°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.8°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.9°
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°).
Poul’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. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Poul is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Poul’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 Sagittarius · 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.
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.
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.4°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
- Venus quincunx Mars 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Poul Anderson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Poul’s cards
Every card is computed from November 25, 1926, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Poul Anderson, 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
Poul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q220883, 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 Slawomir Burzynski (burz[at]poczta.onet.pl), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Poul Anderson at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Poul Anderson.
Quick answers about Poul Anderson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Poul Anderson?
- Poul Anderson was a Sagittarius: born November 25, 1926, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
- What was Poul Anderson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 25, 1926 birth.
- What time was Poul Anderson 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 Poul Anderson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the November 25, 1926 birth date.
- What was Poul Anderson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 25, 1926 birth date.
- Where was Poul Anderson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Poul Anderson's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
