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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Horse, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Samuel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Samuel sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Samuel R. Delany, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Libra 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.
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
Samuel’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenussquareUranus1.7° to 2.5° orb
Samuel’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.1° orb
Samuel’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
Samuel’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileUranus3.2° to 4.8° orb
Samuel’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileMars3.6° to 4.0° orb
Samuel’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.6° to 5.3° orb
Samuel’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
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
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 ℞Leo 8°16′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Samuel performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresPisces 6°03′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Samuel is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 2°54′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Samuel is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaGemini 6°45′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Samuel needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 13°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Samuel that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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 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°
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°).
Samuel’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Samuel is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Samuel’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Samuel R. Delany, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Samuel’s cards
Every card is computed from April 1, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Samuel R. Delany, 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
Samuel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q438164, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse.
- 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 time was Samuel R. Delany 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 is Samuel R. Delany's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the April 1, 1942 birth date.
- What is Samuel R. Delany's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 1, 1942 birth date.
- 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.
