Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (born September 13, 1916, Llandaff, United Kingdom; died 1990), was a British writer and poet. Dahl is best remembered for Danny the Champion of the World. Dahl's honours include Golden Paintbrush, World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and De Kinderjury.
Roald Dahl’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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Roald Dahl’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
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Roald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Roald, according to the stars
Core essence
Roald notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Roald is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Roald runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Roald needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Roald wants to be loved
Roald wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Roald openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Roald creates
How Roald makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Roald creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Roald 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 3 is the creative. Roald is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Roald 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 Roald's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Roald 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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Roald Dahl's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 13, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Roald Dahl was born on September 13, 1916, 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 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Roald Dahl's birth date, September 13, 1916, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Roald’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roald Dahl's date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Roald Dahl combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Roald’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Roald Dahl, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Aries 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.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Roald’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 1.0° orb
Roald’s affections grind against their growth.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
Roald’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Roald’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.6° to 1.3° orb
Roald’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb
Roald’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrinePluto0.9° to 1.5° orb
Roald’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareMars1.0° to 1.3° orb
Roald’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.3° to 2.0° orb
Roald’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssquareSaturn5.3° to 5.9° orb
Roald’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.4° to 7.3° orb
Roald’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.5° to 6.6° orb
Roald’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Roald’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 24°13′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Roald absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLeo 14°21′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Roald is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosCancer 4°59′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Roald is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 10°02′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Roald carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 23°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Roald guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 0.7°
- Eros trine Mars 1.8°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.4°
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°).
Roald’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. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Roald 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 Roald’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.
T-square onto Venus · Mars, Jupiter, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Neptune · Mars, Jupiter, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Venus 0.4°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Roald Dahl, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Roald’s cards
Every card is computed from September 13, 1916, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Roald Dahl, 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
Roald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q25161, 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 Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roald Dahl at Wikipedia, roalddahl.com, IMDb, Instagram, X 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Roald Dahl.
Quick answers about Roald Dahl’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Roald Dahl?
- Roald Dahl was a Virgo: born September 13, 1916, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
- What was Roald Dahl's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 13, 1916 birth.
- What time was Roald Dahl 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 was Roald Dahl's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 13, 1916 birth date.
- What was Roald Dahl's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 13, 1916 birth date.
- Where was Roald Dahl's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Roald Dahl's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
