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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Poul
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.
What Poul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Poul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Poul apart
Andrew Carnegie (1835) and Christina Applegate (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Poul sits
Six lines
Poul’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 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.
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 Poul Anderson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bristol 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 Bristol that night
Computed for 40.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Bristol at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 5.4° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
Bristol sits at 40.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bristol on any night.
The Moon, 62% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.
How unusual Poul's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 2 unaspected planets · Mars 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 →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.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Leo 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
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
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.1° to 4.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.4° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.0° to 5.1° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune5.2° to 6.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.7° to 6.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 28°23′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 10°14′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 5°30′ (moves 0.52° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 0°51′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 18°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Poul’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Poul’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on November 25
- Andrew Carnegie1835
- Christina Applegate1971
- Pedri2002
- John F. Kennedy Jr.1960
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
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- Mel OwensAmerican football player
Other Sagittarius Tiger charts
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Other Steadfast Seekers
- Robert IrwinAustralian conservationist and wildlife photographer (born 2003)
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Famous people with Life Path 9
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Poul’s cards
Computed from November 25, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Poul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q220883 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Poul Anderson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Poul Anderson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
