Ray Nayler
Ray Nayler (born June 5, 1976, Quebec, Canada), aged 50, is a Canadian writer. Nayler's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella, Locus Award for Best First Novel and Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Short Story.
Ray Nayler’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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Ray Nayler’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ray, according to the stars
Core essence
Ray is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Ray needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Ray is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Ray needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Ray wants to be loved
Ray wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Ray like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Ray creates
How Ray 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. Ray 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: Ray is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ray is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Ray 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 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Ray Nayler at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Ray Nayler's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 5, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Ray Nayler was born on June 5, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Ray Nayler's birth date, June 5, 1976, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Ray’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ray Nayler's date-only chart is Venus sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ray Nayler 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.
Ray’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ray Nayler, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Virgo 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.
stableVenussextileMars0.0° to 0.5° orb
Ray’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.2° to 1.5° orb
Ray’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.7° to 1.3° orb
Ray’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.1° to 3.1° orb
Ray’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrinePluto2.1° to 3.3° orb
Ray’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextilePluto2.2° to 2.8° orb
Ray’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.3° to 3.6° orb
Ray’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextileMars3.4° to 3.8° orb
Ray’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableSaturnsquareUranus3.4° to 3.6° orb
Ray’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
Ray’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileSaturn4.5° to 4.7° orb
Ray’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMarssquareJupiter5.1° to 5.4° orb
Ray’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironTaurus 0°24′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Ray building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCancer 11°06′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Ray is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosTaurus 9°33′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Ray wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaCancer 17°59′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Ray is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 24°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Ray carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- Chiron square Saturn 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.2°
- Eros square Mars 1.9°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.1°
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 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. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ray is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.1°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ray Nayler, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Ray’s cards
Every card is computed from June 5, 1976, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ray Nayler, 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
Ray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q98960258, 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 Anna Kuznetsova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ray Nayler at Wikipedia, raynayler.net, Instagram and X.
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 Ray Nayler.
Quick answers about Ray Nayler’s chart
- How old is Ray Nayler?
- Ray Nayler is 50 years old, born June 5, 1976 in Quebec, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Ray Nayler?
- Ray Nayler is a Gemini: born June 5, 1976, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon.
- What is Ray Nayler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 5, 1976 birth.
- What time was Ray Nayler 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 is Ray Nayler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the June 5, 1976 birth date.
- What is Ray Nayler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 5, 1976 birth date.
- Where is Ray Nayler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ray Nayler's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
