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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Ray
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
Ray ranked 238th among boys and 4,295th among girls in 1976, the year of this birth, with 850 American boys and 15 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ray’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ray’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Ray apart
Mark Wahlberg (1971) and Dennis Gabor (1900) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Ray sits
Six lines
Ray’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Ray Nayler
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Quebec 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 Quebec that night
Computed for 52.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Quebec at 9 p.m. that evening: Mizar of Ursa Major, within 3.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.
From 52.0°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −38.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Quebec on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 56% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -0° down.
How unusual Ray's chart is
Chart pattern score
13 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Virgo 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
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
stableVenustrinePluto2.1° to 3.3° orb
stableMarssextilePluto2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.3° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.4° to 3.8° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus3.4° to 3.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn4.5° to 4.7° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter5.1° to 5.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 0°24′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 11°06′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 9°33′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 17°59′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 24°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.2°
- Eros square Mars 1.9°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.1°
Ray’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ray’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.1°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°
More people like Ray
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Born in Canada
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More charts like Ray’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Jordan PetersonCanadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere activist
- Alanis MorissetteCanadian-American singer
- Aage BohrDanish physicist
Born in Dragon years
- Demario DavisAmerican football player (born 1989)
- Isaiah McDuffieAmerican football player
- Sean RhyanAmerican football player
Also born on June 5
- Mark Wahlberg1971
- Dennis Gabor1900
- Troye Sivan1995
- Ninja1991
- Salvatore Ferragamo1898
- Piper Perri1995
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Jaimz WoolvettCanadian actor
- Fana MokoenaSouth African actor and politician
- William SadlerAmerican actor (born 1950)
Other Gemini Dragon charts
- Blake SheltonAmerican country music singer and television personality
- Phil FodenEnglish footballer (born 2000)
- Bianca AndreescuCanadian tennis player
- Jade CareyAmerican artistic gymnast
Other Steadfast Seekers
- Martin SheenAmerican actor (born 1940)
- Linda ThompsonAmerican actress (born 1950)
- Paul SculforBritish model
- Dax ShepardAmerican podcaster and actor
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Tamra JudgeAmerican reality television personality
- NormaniAmerican singer and dancer
- Dominic MonaghanGerman-born British actor
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Ray’s cards
Computed from June 5, 1976. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q98960258 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Ray Nayler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ray Nayler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
