R. A. Lafferty
R. A. Lafferty (born November 7, 1914, Neola, United States; died 2002), was an American writer. Lafferty's honours include Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award.
R. A. Lafferty’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with R. A. Lafferty
R. A. Lafferty’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
What R. A. Lafferty’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on R (9) and closes on R (9).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
R. A. Lafferty’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1914, 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 R. A. Lafferty apart
R. A. Lafferty took the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1973, at 59.
Wikipedia's editors put R. A. Lafferty under Cascia Hall Preparatory School alumni, Catholics from Oklahoma and People from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Marie Curie (1867) and Albert Camus (1913) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Short Story (1973) and Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award (2002)
- Nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and Nebula Award for Best Novelette
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 22
What the chart says
R. A. Lafferty, according to the stars
Core essence
R. A. Lafferty does not do surface. The core of R. A. Lafferty is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from R. A. Lafferty is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, R. A. Lafferty is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What R. A. Lafferty needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How R. A. Lafferty wants to be loved
R. A. Lafferty 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 R. A. Lafferty and watch them fall for you again.
How R. A. Lafferty creates
How R. A. Lafferty makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. R. A. Lafferty creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: R. A. Lafferty 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. R. A. Lafferty is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means R. A. Lafferty runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from R. A. Lafferty's birth date. Working below.
Where R. A. Lafferty sits
Six lines
R. A. Lafferty’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 R. A. Lafferty
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Neola 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 Neola that night
Computed for 41.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Neola was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 76.5° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Neola on any night.
The Moon, 78% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 43° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Neola, United States
The death is recorded at Broken Arrow, Wagoner County in 2002.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for R. A. Lafferty: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual R.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · Five planets retrograde · No Earth planets
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 →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
R. A. Lafferty's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 7, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
R. A. Lafferty was born on November 7, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
R. A. Lafferty's birth date, November 7, 1914, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in R. A. Lafferty’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in R. A. Lafferty's date-only chart is Mercury square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- R. A. Lafferty combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
R. A. Lafferty’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Cancer 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 1.8° orb
R. A. Lafferty’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
R. A. Lafferty’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
R. A. Lafferty’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareJupiter0.2° to 1.1° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune2.7° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussextileUranus4.4° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus5.4° to 6.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus5.9° to 6.0° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.4° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
R. A. Lafferty’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°30′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 19°50′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 20°09′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 0°58′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 8°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Sun 0.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 0.5°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.8°
- Chiron square Venus 2.2°
R. A. Lafferty’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in R. A. Lafferty’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.0°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 1.4°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Mars quintile Uranus 1.5°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
R. A. Lafferty’s cards
Computed from November 7, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
R. A. Lafferty’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q982489 (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 Keith Purtell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same R. A. Lafferty at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by R. A. Lafferty.
Quick answers about R. A. Lafferty’s chart
- What zodiac sign was R. A. Lafferty?
- R. A. Lafferty was a Scorpio: born November 7, 1914, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was R. A. Lafferty's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 7, 1914 birth.
- What was R. A. Lafferty's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was R. A. Lafferty's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was R. A. Lafferty's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was R. A. Lafferty's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
