Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany (born April 1, 1942, New York City, United States), aged 84, is an American author and literary critic (born 1942). Delany is best known for Quark/3, Quark/2 and Quark/1. Delany's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Golden Graoully for Best Foreign Novel and Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
Samuel R. Delany’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Samuel
Samuel R. Delany’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Samuel in the U.S.?
#18
US rank in 2025
~823,085
Americans share it since 1880
2001
its peak year
Samuel ranked 59th among boys and 1,526th among girls in 1942, the year of this birth, with 4,190 American boys and 30 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Samuel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on S (1) and closes on L (3).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Samuel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Samuel apart
Wangari Muta Maathai (1940) and Milan Kundera (1929) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Samuel, according to the stars
Core essence
Samuel leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Samuel is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Samuel cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Samuel needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Samuel wants to be loved
Samuel wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Samuel be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Samuel creates
How Samuel makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Samuel builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Samuel is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Samuel 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Samuel scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Samuel's birth date. Working below.
Where Samuel sits
Six lines
Samuel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Samuel R. Delany
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 7.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 18° below the horizon.
How unusual Samuel's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Samuel R. Delany's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 1, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Samuel R. Delany was born on April 1, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Samuel R. Delany's birth date, April 1, 1942, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Samuel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Samuel R. Delany's date-only chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Samuel R. Delany combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Samuel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Libra 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
stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb
Samuel’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.4° to 0.5° orb
Samuel’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.7° to 1.2° orb
Samuel’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.1° to 2.7° orb
stableVenussquareUranus1.7° to 2.5° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.1° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus3.2° to 4.8° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.6° to 4.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.6° to 5.3° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Samuel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 8°16′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 6°03′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 2°54′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 6°45′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 13°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 2.6°
Samuel’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Samuel’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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
More people like Samuel
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Fellow Aries suns
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- Karl MaldenAmerican actor
- Sergio BustricItalian actor (1953-)
Born in Horse years
- John HohenbergAmerican journalist and academic
- Lynn HeinzerlingAmerican correspondent
- Benjamin Lawrence ReidAmerican professor and author
Also born on April 1
- Wangari Muta Maathai1940
- Milan Kundera1929
- Logan Paul1995
- Zhang Yiming1983
- Susan Boyle1961
- Jon Gosselin1977
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Trevor NoahSouth African comedian and television host
- Mac MillerAmerican rapper
- Theo JamesBritish actor and musician
Other Aries Horse charts
- Chris StapletonAmerican country musician
- Robin WrightAmerican actress
- Carles PuyolSpanish footballer (born 1978)
- Bundee AkiIreland rugby union player, born in New Zealand
Other Evergreen Diplomats
- Najee HarrisAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Daniel CarlsonAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Darius SlaytonAmerican football player
- Chris BoswellAmerican football player (born 1991)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Robert PatrickAmerican actor
- Burt YoungAmerican actor
- Harve PresnellAmerican actor and singer
From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
Samuel’s cards
Computed from April 1, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Samuel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q438164 (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 Samuel.Delany, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Samuel R. Delany at Wikipedia, samueldelany.com, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Samuel R. Delany.
Quick answers about Samuel R. Delany’s chart
- How old is Samuel R. Delany?
- Samuel R. Delany is 84 years old, born April 1, 1942 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Samuel R. Delany?
- Samuel R. Delany is an Aries: born April 1, 1942, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Samuel R. Delany's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 1, 1942 birth.
- What is Samuel R. Delany's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Samuel R. Delany's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Samuel R. Delany's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Samuel R. Delany's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
