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Ron Powers

Ron Powers (born November 18, 1941, Hannibal, United States), aged 84, is an American writer. Powers's honours include Emmy Award and Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Ron Powers’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Ron Powers’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Scholar

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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 336th in 1941, the year of this birth, with 293 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

8

Soul Urge · achievement

9

Personality · generous, worldly

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

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

8 · 2 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Crimson · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 Powers took the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1973, at 32.

Wikipedia's editors put Ron Powers under People from Hannibal, Missouri, Writers from Missouri and Emmy Award winners.

Margaret Atwood (1939) and Chloë Sevigny (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1973)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Ron, according to the stars

Core essence

Ron does not do surface. The core of Ron is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Ron is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Ron wants to be loved

Ron wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Ron you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Ron creates

How Ron makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Ron 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: Ron is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Ron is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Ron

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ron

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

PrivateExpressive
Ron

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ron

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

PracticalVisionary
Ron

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ron

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ron Powers

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

Ron’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 84° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 42.1° 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 Hannibal that night

Computed for 39.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Mirach stood nearest the zenith over Hannibal at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.0° above the horizon in Andromeda.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.

From 39.7°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 −50.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.

How unusual Ron's chart is

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · 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.

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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Ron Powers's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 18, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Metal Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Ron Powers was born on November 18, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Ron Powers's birth date, November 18, 1941, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Ron’s chart

Ron’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 0° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.9° orbSun faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.6° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.4° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.6° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.7° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.3° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.4° orbSun in Scorpio · 26°01′☉26°Moon in Scorpio · 22°24′☽22°Mercury in Scorpio · 8°28′☿8°Venus in Capricorn · 13°08′♀13°Mars in Aries · 11°32′♂11°Jupiter in Gemini · 18°58′ · retrograde♃℞18°Saturn in Taurus · 24°59′ · retrograde♄℞24°Uranus in Taurus · 28°26′ · retrograde♅℞28°Neptune in Virgo · 29°21′♆29°Pluto in Leo · 5°45′ · retrograde♇℞5°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb

    Ron’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune0.9° orb

    Ron’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareMars1.1° to 2.1° orb

    Ron’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto2.0° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunsextileNeptune2.8° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus4.5° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 14°30′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 15°06′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 6°42′ (moves 0.79° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 3°08′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 28°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.8°
  • Eros square Pluto 1.0°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 1.8°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.6°
  • Chiron trine Mars 3.0°

Ron’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 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.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 0.5°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 1.5°
  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.8°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 1.9°

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Ron’s cards

Computed from November 18, 1941. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ron’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7364277 (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 Ron Powers at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ron Powers.

Quick answers about Ron Powers’s chart

How old is Ron Powers?
Ron Powers is 84 years old, born November 18, 1941 in Hannibal, United States.
What zodiac sign is Ron Powers?
Ron Powers is a Scorpio: born November 18, 1941, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Ron Powers's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 18, 1941 birth.
What is Ron Powers's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Ron Powers's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ron Powers's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ron Powers's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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