Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire (born January 5, 1978, Martinez, United States), aged 48, is an American writer. McGuire is best known for Wayward Children, October Daye and InCryptid. McGuire's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and Nebula Award for Best Novella.
Seanan McGuire’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Seanan
Seanan McGuire’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
What Seanan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on S (1) 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
Seanan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Seanan apart
What keeps Seanan McGuire in print: Wayward Children, InCryptid and October Daye.
The working life starts in 2008, at 30.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Seanan McGuire: American asexual women, Autistic LGBTQ people and Audiobook narrators.
The same date carries January Jones. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Wayward Children, InCryptid and October Daye
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Novella (2017), Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2020) and Nebula Award for Best Novella (2017)
- Nominated for
- British Fantasy Award for Best Novella and Hugo Award for Best Series
- Working from
- 2008
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
Seanan, according to the stars
Core essence
Seanan is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Seanan 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.
How Seanan wants to be loved
Seanan 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 Seanan you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Seanan creates
How Seanan 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. Seanan 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: Seanan 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Seanan is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Seanan fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Seanan's birth date. Working below.
Where Seanan sits
Six lines
Seanan’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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Seanan McGuire
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Martinez 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 Martinez that night
Computed for 38.02°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Martinez was Menkib, in Perseus, 87.5° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 38.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Martinez at all: they sit past the −52.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 13% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
How unusual Seanan's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Seanan McGuire's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 5, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Seanan McGuire was born on January 5, 1978, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Seanan McGuire's birth date, January 5, 1978, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Seanan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Seanan McGuire's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Seanan McGuire combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Seanan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 5° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Seanan’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° to 0.3° orb
Seanan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.7° to 0.8° orb
Seanan’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquarePluto1.0° to 2.0° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.7° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableVenussquarePluto4.8° to 6.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.6° to 6.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter6.1° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 2.0° to 17.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 5.4° to 20.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Seanan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 1°07′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 19°03′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 23°31′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 3°16′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 28°42′ (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 Jupiter 0.5°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.8°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 2.4°
Seanan’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Seanan’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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 0.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.3°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
Born the same day as Seanan
January Jones was born on January 5, 1978 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. At 38.0°N, the sky above Martinez stops at −52.0° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on January 5
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- Hayao Miyazaki1941
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- Tom Helmoreactor from England
Other Capricorn Snake charts
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Other Radiant Pioneers
- Keldon JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Barry KeoghanIrish actor
- Claudia OshryAmerican social media influencer and podcast host
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Famous people with Life Path 4
- Tom GoresAmerican businessman and investor
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Seanan’s cards
Computed from January 5, 1978. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Seanan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3476794 (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 Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Seanan McGuire at Wikipedia, seananmcguire.com, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Seanan McGuire.
Quick answers about Seanan McGuire’s chart
- How old is Seanan McGuire?
- Seanan McGuire is 48 years old, born January 5, 1978 in Martinez, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Seanan McGuire?
- Seanan McGuire is a Capricorn: born January 5, 1978, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Seanan McGuire's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 5, 1978 birth.
- What is Seanan McGuire's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Seanan McGuire's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Seanan McGuire's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Seanan McGuire's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
