Spider Robinson
Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948, New York City, United States), aged 77, is a Canadian author. Robinson's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella, Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Nebula Award for Best Novella.
Spider Robinson’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Spider
Spider Robinson’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
What Spider’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on S (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Spider’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Rose-gold · Terracotta
The record
What sets Spider apart
Katherine Heigl (1978) and Hande Erçel (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Spider, according to the stars
Core essence
Spider is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Spider is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Spider is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Spider needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Spider wants to be loved
Spider wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Spider gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Spider creates
How Spider makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Spider creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Spider is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Spider 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Spider has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Spider's birth date. Working below.
Where Spider sits
Six lines
Spider’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 Spider Robinson
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.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Mirach, in Andromeda, 84.1° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°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 New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 37% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.
How unusual Spider's chart is
Chart pattern score
13 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl · 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Spider Robinson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 24, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Spider Robinson was born on November 24, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Spider Robinson's birth date, November 24, 1948, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Spider’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Spider Robinson's date-only chart is Venus sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Spider Robinson combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Spider’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Virgo 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
stableVenussextileMars0.0° to 0.3° orb
Spider’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenustrineUranus0.6° to 1.9° orb
Spider’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.9° to 1.7° orb
Spider’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.2° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter3.3° to 3.9° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.7° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto4.9° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.3° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 2.8° to 15.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Spider’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 29°31′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 21°53′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 5°52′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 10°43′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.4°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 2.8°
Spider’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Spider’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 quintile Pluto 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.3°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 2.0°
Spider’s family here
One relative of Spider Robinson also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Spider
Other writers
- Melba Boyd1950
- John Steffler1947
- Charles Krauthammer1950
- Lorri Neilsen Glenn1947
- John Grant1949
- Liz Lochhead1947
Born in United States
- Michael W. YoungAmerican geneticist, chronobiologist
- Ben BurttAmerican sound designer and film director
- Ron ChernowAmerican writer and historian (born 1949)
- Tommy MottolaAmerican music executive
- Christopher RouseAmerican composer
- James P. AllisonAmerican immunologist and Nobel laureate (born 1948)
More charts like Spider’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Hande ErçelTurkish actor and fashion model
- Alan RitchsonAmerican actor
- Alexa DemieAmerican actress and singer
Born in Rat years
- Trevor NoahSouth African comedian and television host
- Hailey BieberAmerican model and television personality
- Denny HulmeNew Zealand racing driver
Also born on November 24
- Katherine Heigl1978
- Jeremiah Brent1984
- Sarah Hyland1990
- Samantha Markle1964
- Peyton Meyer1998
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge1885
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Kelsey GrammerAmerican actor
- Debbie GibsonAmerican singer and actress
- Adrian GrenierAmerican actor, director, producer, musician
Other Sagittarius Rat charts
- Lucas GrabeelAmerican actor and musician
- Jackson RathboneAmerican actor and musician
- Robin RobertsAmerican television broadcaster (born 1960)
- Mary Elizabeth WinsteadAmerican actress (born 1984)
Other Tidal Healers
- Muhammad YunusBangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh
- Kurt GödelAustrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics
- Hayao MiyazakiJapanese animator, film director, and mangaka
- Catherine, Princess of WalesMember of the British Royal Family and princess of Wales since 2022
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Zohran MamdaniAmerican politician and Mayor of New York City since 2026
- Kelly ClarksonAmerican singer-songwriter
- James FrancoAmerican actor
From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Spider’s cards
Computed from November 24, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Spider’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1443070 (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 Spider Robinson at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Spider Robinson.
Quick answers about Spider Robinson’s chart
- How old is Spider Robinson?
- Spider Robinson is 77 years old, born November 24, 1948 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Spider Robinson?
- Spider Robinson is a Sagittarius: born November 24, 1948, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Spider Robinson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 24, 1948 birth.
- What is Spider Robinson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Spider Robinson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Spider Robinson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Spider Robinson's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
