Ron Miller
Ron Miller (born May 8, 1947, Minneapolis, United States), aged 79, is an American illustrator and author. Miller's honours include Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
Ron Miller’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Ron
Ron Miller’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Ron in the U.S.?
#4361
US rank in 2025
~36,432
Americans share it since 1919
1960
its peak year
Ron ranked 210th in 1947, the year of this birth, with 921 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ron’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
11
Soul Urge · insight
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on R (9) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ron’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Ron apart
Ron Miller took the Hugo Award for Best Related Work in 2002, at 55.
Training came by way of Columbus College of Art and Design.
Wikipedia's editors put Ron Miller under Artists from Minneapolis, People from South Boston, Virginia and Novelists from Minnesota.
The same date carries H. Robert Horvitz. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Columbus College of Art and Design
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work (2002)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Ron, according to the stars
Core essence
Ron 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 Ron 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 Ron wants to be loved
Ron 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 Ron creates
How Ron makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Ron creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Ron 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ron 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means Ron gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Ron's birth date. Working below.
Where Ron sits
Six lines
Ron’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Ron Miller
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis that night
Computed for 44.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Minneapolis at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 6.6° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 45.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Nothing below −45.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Minneapolis on any night.
The Moon, 86% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
How unusual Ron's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Ron Miller's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 8, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Ron Miller was born on May 8, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Ron Miller's birth date, May 8, 1947, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Ron’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ron Miller's date-only chart is Mars sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Ron Miller combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Ron’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMarssextileUranus0.4° to 1.1° orb
Ron’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.1° to 3.2° orb
Ron’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
Ron’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileUranus3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars4.1° to 4.5° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.7° to 5.9° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.8° to 6.8° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter5.6° to 6.7° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.7° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.4° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.8° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 4.9° to 15.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Ron’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 4°36′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 10°45′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 23°55′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 22°56′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 10°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.3°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.5°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.1°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.5°
Ron’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Ron’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.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.1°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.8°
Born the same day as Ron
H. Robert Horvitz was born on May 8, 1947 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Minneapolis, at 45.0°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Ron
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- Lorri Neilsen Glenn1947
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More charts like Ron’s
Fellow Taurus suns
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Born in Pig years
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- Linda B. BuckAmerican biologist
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Also born on May 8
- Enrique Iglesias1975
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Frederick Jackson TurnerAmerican historian
- Paul ZindelAmerican dramatist and children's writer
- Abe BurrowsAmerican dramatist and playwright
Other Taurus Pig charts
- Jim PeeblesCanadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Michael Levittbiophysicist and Professor of Structural biology
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Other Radiant Lightkeepers
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Famous people with Life Path 7
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Ron’s cards
Computed from May 8, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ron’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7364170 (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 Blackcat1407, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ron Miller at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ron Miller.
Quick answers about Ron Miller’s chart
- How old is Ron Miller?
- Ron Miller is 79 years old, born May 8, 1947 in Minneapolis, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ron Miller?
- Ron Miller is a Taurus: born May 8, 1947, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Ron Miller's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 8, 1947 birth.
- What is Ron Miller's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ron Miller's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ron Miller's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ron Miller's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
