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Sarah Vowell

Sarah Vowell (born December 27, 1969, Muskogee, United States), aged 56, is an American author, journalist, singing songs and social commentator. Vowell is best known for The Partly Cloudy Patriot and The Incredibles.

Sarah Vowell’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Sarah Vowell’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Strategist

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#90

US rank in 2025

~1,101,838

Americans share it since 1880

1982

its peak year

In 1969, 5,078 American girls and 15 boys were registered Sarah — 72nd among girls and 2,293rd among boys on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Sarah’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on S (1) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Sarah’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Ivory · Gold

The record

What sets Sarah apart

Louis Pasteur (1822) and Salman Khan (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Sarah, according to the stars

Core essence

Sarah is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Sarah is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Sarah needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Sarah needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Sarah wants to be loved

Sarah wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Sarah and watch them fall for you again.

How Sarah creates

How Sarah makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Sarah creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Sarah is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Sarah is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Sarah leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Sarah slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Sarah's birth date. Working below.

Where Sarah sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Sarah

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sarah

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Sarah

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sarah

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Sarah

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sarah

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Sarah Vowell

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

Sarah’s birth-night reference starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 84.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 63.6° 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 Muskogee that night

Computed for 35.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Muskogee at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 5.1° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

Muskogee sits at 35.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Muskogee at all: they sit past the −54.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 84% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.

How unusual Sarah's chart is

Chart pattern score

35 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mercury · 2 planets 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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Capricorn Sun

Plays the long game. Wins it.

Sarah Vowell's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 27, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Earth Rooster

Prepared for everything, twice.

Sarah Vowell was born on December 27, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Sarah Vowell's birth date, December 27, 1969, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Sarah’s chart

Sarah’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.4° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.7° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.4° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.6° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.8° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 3° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun in Capricorn · 5°50′☉5°Moon in Leo · 19°30′☽19°Mercury in Capricorn · 25°31′☿25°Venus in Sagittarius · 29°06′♀29°Mars in Pisces · 9°04′♂9°Jupiter in Scorpio · 1°44′♃1°Saturn in Taurus · 2°06′ · retrograde♄℞2°Uranus in Libra · 8°40′♅8°Neptune in Scorpio · 29°45′♆29°Pluto in Virgo · 27°24′♇27°

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

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn0.3° to 0.5° orb

    Sarah’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenussquarePluto1.1° to 2.3° orb

    Sarah’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto1.4° to 2.4° orb

    Sarah’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter2.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus2.3° to 3.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn2.4° to 3.6° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars3.1° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn3.2° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune3.7° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter5.8° to 6.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

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

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 2°28′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 19°37′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 13°50′ (moves 0.79° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 1°43′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 2°10′ (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 square Saturn 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.4°
  • Hygiea opposition Neptune 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.4°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.7°

Sarah’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Sarah’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.

  • Mars quincunx Uranus 0.4°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.5°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.4°

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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?

Sarah’s cards

Computed from December 27, 1969. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Strategist

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Sarah’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q452147 (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 Tammy Lo (tammylo), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Sarah Vowell 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 Sarah Vowell.

Quick answers about Sarah Vowell’s chart

How old is Sarah Vowell?
Sarah Vowell is 56 years old, born December 27, 1969 in Muskogee, United States.
What zodiac sign is Sarah Vowell?
Sarah Vowell is a Capricorn: born December 27, 1969, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Sarah Vowell's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 27, 1969 birth.
What is Sarah Vowell's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Sarah Vowell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Sarah Vowell's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Sarah Vowell's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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