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Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny (born May 13, 1937, Euclid, United States; died 1995), was an U.S. science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. Zelazny is best remembered for Eye of Cat, A Night in the Lonesome October and Unicorn Variations. Zelazny's honours include Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novella and Prix Tour-Apollo Award.

Roger Zelazny’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Fire Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Roger Zelazny’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Roger in the U.S.?

#834

US rank in 2025

~443,830

Americans share it since 1880

1953

its peak year

In 1937, 5,713 American boys and 21 girls were registered Roger — 36th among boys and 1,726th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Roger’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

8

Soul Urge · achievement

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on R (9) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Roger’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus

Ivory · Blush · Scarlet

The record

What sets Roger apart

Stevie Wonder (1950) and Scott Morrison (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Roger, according to the stars

Core essence

Roger is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Roger is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Roger wants to be loved

Roger wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Roger creates

How Roger makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Roger creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Roger is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Roger is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Roger has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Roger's birth date. Working below.

Where Roger sits

Six lines

Roger’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Roger

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Roger

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Roger

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Roger

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Roger

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Roger

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Euclid on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Roger’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 82.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 30.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Euclid that night

Computed for 41.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Euclid at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 7.6° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

Euclid sits at 41.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 17% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 4° below the horizon.

How unusual Roger's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Taurus · Grand trine · No Air planets

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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If you only read one paragraph

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Roger Zelazny's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 13, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Fire Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Roger Zelazny was born on May 13, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 11

Receives more than it reasons.

Roger Zelazny's birth date, May 13, 1937, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Roger’s chart

Roger’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.6° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.4° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.7° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.5° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.7° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.2° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun in Taurus · 22°27′☉22°Moon in Cancer · 6°05′☽6°Mercury in Taurus · 18°55′ · retrograde☿℞18°Venus in Aries · 19°49′♀19°Mars in Sagittarius · 0°26′ · retrograde♂℞0°Jupiter in Capricorn · 27°19′♃27°Saturn in Aries · 1°52′♄1°Uranus in Taurus · 10°21′♅10°Neptune in Virgo · 16°14′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Cancer · 26°44′♇26°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.6° orb

    Roger’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn1.2° to 1.7° orb

    Roger’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune2.4° to 3.0° orb

    Roger’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.8° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter2.9° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto3.5° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSunsextilePluto3.8° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter4.4° to 5.3° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune5.7° to 6.7° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune5.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Roger’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 21°25′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 25°37′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosPisces 23°01′ (moves 0.55° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 15°15′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 24°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Sun 0.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.0°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.6°

Roger’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Roger’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, 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.
  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Mars, Saturn, Pluto, JupiterA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.9°

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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Roger’s cards

Computed from May 13, 1937. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Roger’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295406 (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.

The same Roger Zelazny at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Roger Zelazny.

Quick answers about Roger Zelazny’s chart

What zodiac sign was Roger Zelazny?
Roger Zelazny was a Taurus: born May 13, 1937, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Roger Zelazny's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 13, 1937 birth.
What was Roger Zelazny's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Roger Zelazny's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Roger Zelazny's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Roger Zelazny's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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