Rebecca Roanhorse
Rebecca Roanhorse (born September 23, 1971, Conway, United States), aged 55, is an American speculative fiction author (1971-). Roanhorse's honours include Nebula Award for Best Short Story, Astounding Award for Best New Writer and Locus Award for Best First Novel.
Rebecca Roanhorse’s zodiac sign is Virgo or Libra (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Rebecca
How common is the name Rebecca in the U.S.?
#350
US rank in 2025
~758,106
Americans share it since 1880
1981
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1971, Rebecca came 23rd among girls and 1,231st among boys, carried by 12,192 American girls and 46 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rebecca’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Rebecca’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1971, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Rebecca apart
Rebecca Roanhorse took the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2018, at 47.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of New Mexico and Yale University.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Rebecca Roanhorse: American people who self-identify as being of Pueblo descent, African-American women short story writers and Speculative fiction writers of African descent.
The same date carries Sean Spicer. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- University of New Mexico and Yale University
- Awards
- Ignyte Award for Best Short Story (2020), Premi Ictineu (2020) and Ignyte Award for Best Novel, Adult (2021)
- Nominated for
- World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction and World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Rebecca, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Rebecca feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Rebecca needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Rebecca wants to be loved
Rebecca wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Rebecca gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Rebecca creates
How Rebecca makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Rebecca creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Rebecca is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Rebecca is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Rebecca goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Rebecca's birth date. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Conway on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Conway that night
Computed for 35.09°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Conway was Sadr, in Cygnus, 83.3° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 35.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −54.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 23° below the horizon, Moon down and 17% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Rebecca's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Libra · Grand trine · 3 planets 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.
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Virgo or Libra Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Rebecca Roanhorse was born on September 23, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Rebecca Roanhorse's birth date, September 23, 1971, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Rebecca’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rebecca Roanhorse's date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
Rebecca’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Rebecca’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineUranus0.1° to 0.2° orb
Rebecca’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.2° to 1.4° orb
Rebecca’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.3° to 1.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter1.3° to 2.1° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.7° to 4.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.2° to 6.4° orb
stableVenustrineMars5.4° to 6.4° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Rebecca’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 12°06′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 2°06′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo or Libra during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 24°52′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Pluto 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.3°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.1°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.3°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.1°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 2.5°
Rebecca’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn7 pts
7 major aspects
Configurations in Rebecca’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.
Grand trine · Venus, Mars, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.4°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury biquintile Mars 1.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.4°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.8°
Born the same day as Rebecca
Sean Spicer was born on September 23, 1971 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Conway sits at 35.1°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
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Famous people with Life Path 5
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Rebecca’s cards
Computed from September 23, 1971. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rebecca’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q56192533 (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 San Francisco Public Librar, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rebecca Roanhorse at Wikipedia, rebeccaroanhorse.com, IMDb and X.
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Quick answers about Rebecca Roanhorse’s chart
- How old is Rebecca Roanhorse?
- Rebecca Roanhorse is 55 years old, born September 23, 1971 in Conway, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Rebecca Roanhorse?
- Rebecca Roanhorse was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Rebecca Roanhorse's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 23, 1971 birth.
- What is Rebecca Roanhorse's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Rebecca Roanhorse's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Rebecca Roanhorse's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rebecca Roanhorse's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
