Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury (born Raymond Douglas Bradbury; August 22, 1920, Waukegan, United States, 16:50; died 2012), was an American author and screenwriter. Bradbury is best remembered for Fahrenheit 451, I Sing the Body Electric and The Illustrated Man. Bradbury's honours include First Fandom Hall of Fame award, California Library Hall of Fame and Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
Ray Bradbury’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Ray Bradbury’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ray in the U.S.?
#792
US rank in 2025
~210,307
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ray’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
33 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Ray, according to the stars
Core essence
Ray is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Ray is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Ray is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Ray needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Ray wants to be loved
Ray 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 Ray and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Ray creates
How Ray makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Ray creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Ray is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Ray is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Ray 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 Ray's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ray sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Ray Bradbury's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 33
Life Path 33Care turned outward to all.
Ray Bradbury's birth date, August 22, 1920, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 33 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with teaching through care, service and example. Numerologists read it as an intensified 6, the nurturer's instinct turned toward a community rather than a household. The corresponding tension is self-sacrifice, with the caution that giving at that scale needs a source that is also being filled.
What stands out in Ray’s chart
- One of the ten planets sits in angular houses in Ray Bradbury's timed chart: Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Ray Bradbury's timed chart is Venus conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Ray Bradbury combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Ray’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
VenusconjunctionSaturnseparating · 0.2° orb
Ray’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SunconjunctionJupiterseparating · 0.4° orb
Ray’s core identity and growth act as one.
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 1.7° orb
Ray’s mind and imagination act as one.
MoontrineMercuryseparating · 1.8° orb
Ray’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
MoonsquareVenusseparating · 2.2° orb
Ray’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MoonsquareSaturnseparating · 2.4° orb
Ray’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 3.5° orb
Ray’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunoppositionUranusapplying · 4.4° orb
Ray’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
SaturnsextilePlutoseparating · 4.5° orb
Ray’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
UranustrinePlutoseparating · 4.6° orb
Ray’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
VenussextilePlutoseparating · 4.7° orb
Ray’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupiteroppositionUranusapplying · 4.8° orb
Ray’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 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, with no planets in Air signs.
Ray’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 9°49′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Ray may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresGemini 24°51′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Ray feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosVirgo 12°04′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Ray is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaLeo 5°15′ · House 8
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Ray at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 4°15′ · House 1
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Ray is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.2°
- Chiron square Pluto 1.3°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Ascendant 2.6°
- Chiron square Ascendant 3.0°
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°).
Ray’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Ray is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Ray’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
Ray’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
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| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Virgo, house 9 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Pisces, house 3 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Leo, house 8 | Uranus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Scorpio, house 11 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 9 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Leo, house 8 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Sagittarius, house 12 | Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 8 | Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Leo, house 8 | Venus, Saturn | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 9 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 7 | Mars | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 8 | Moon | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Ray’s cards
Every card is computed from August 22, 1920, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Hour
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Ray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q40640, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ray Bradbury at Wikipedia, raybradbury.com, IMDb, Instagram 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.
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Quick answers about Ray Bradbury’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ray Bradbury?
- Ray Bradbury was a Leo: born August 22, 1920, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey.
- What was Ray Bradbury's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 22, 1920 birth.
- What time was Ray Bradbury born?
- 16:50 local time in Waukegan, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Ray Bradbury's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 16:50 birth time in Waukegan, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Ray Bradbury's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology from the August 22, 1920 birth date.
- What was Ray Bradbury's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 22, 1920 birth time.
- Where was Ray Bradbury's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 4°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ray Bradbury's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
