Stephen King
Stephen King (born September 21, 1947, Portland, United States, 01:30), aged 79, is an American novelist and writer. King is best known for Misery, Doctor Sleep and Needful Things. King's honours include O. Henry Award, Bram Stoker Award for Novel and National Book Award.
Stephen King’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Stephen
Stephen King’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 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Stephen in the U.S.?
#383
US rank in 2025
~867,669
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
The SSA recorded 15,328 American boys and 20 girls named Stephen in 1947: 21st among boys and 2,274th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stephen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
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
Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Stephen apart
The record Stephen King is measured by: Pet Sematary, 'Salem's Lot and Carrie.
The schooling ran through Hampden Academy and University of Maine.
Stephen King was 12 when the work began in 1959.
The family line: born to Nellie Pillsbury and Donald Edwin King, married Tabitha King and raised 3 children.
Marsha Norman shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Pet Sematary, 'Salem's Lot and Carrie
- Educated at
- Hampden Academy, University of Maine and Lisbon High School
- Awards
- O. Henry Award (1996), National Book Award (2003) and Bram Stoker Awards (2000)
- Nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Novella and Locus Award for Best Novelette
- Working from
- 1959
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 147
What the chart says
Stephen, according to the stars
Core essence
Stephen notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Stephen is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Stephen is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Stephen needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Stephen wants to be loved
Stephen 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. Stephen gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Stephen creates
How Stephen makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Stephen 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: Stephen is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Stephen is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Stephen does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Stephen's birth date. Working below.
Where Stephen sits
Six lines
Stephen’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Stephen King
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Portland on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Portland at 01:30, Stephen King’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Portland that night
Computed for 43.66°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Portland was Mirach, in Andromeda, 80.8° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.
Portland sits at 43.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −46.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Portland on any night.
The Moon, 41% lit at first quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 43° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Portland, United States
- Lives in
- Bangor · Fort Wayne
Wikidata records Bangor and Fort Wayne as Stephen King's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Stephen's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Warrior 武曲, The Minister 天相 in 申
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 6/2
Sacral authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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.
Score your own chart →Stephen King at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Stephen King's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What Virgo means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Stephen King's birth date, September 21, 1947, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Stephen’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Stephen King's timed chart: Mercury in the 4th house, Venus in the 4th house, Mars in the 1st house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Stephen King's timed chart is Mars trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Stephen King 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.
Stephen’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MarstrineJupiterseparating · 0.4° orb
Stephen’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercurysextilePlutoseparating · 0.8° orb
Stephen’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonsextileMercuryseparating · 1.2° orb
Stephen’s feelings open doors for their mind.
SunsquareUranusseparating · 1.3° orb
MoontrineSaturnapplying · 1.9° orb
MoontrinePlutoseparating · 2.0° orb
MercurysextileSaturnapplying · 3.1° orb
SunsextileMarsseparating · 3.2° orb
SunsextileJupiterseparating · 3.6° orb
SaturnconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.9° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.2° orb
SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 4.8° orb
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 5.0° orb
JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 5.7° orb
VenussquareUranusseparating · 6.0° orb
VenusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 7.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Stephen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironScorpio 7°42′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 8°25′ · House 11
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 21°25′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 1°13′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 26°04′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Venus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.3°
Stephen’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus8 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Stephen’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 semi-square Saturn 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.3°
Stephen’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Sagittarius, house 6 | Mars | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Virgo, house 3 | Saturn, Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Libra, house 4 | Sun | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Libra, house 4 | Mercury, Venus, Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 2 | Jupiter | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 5 | Moon | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Leo, house 2 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 12 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Cancer, house 1 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Libra, house 4 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Libra, house 4 | Uranus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Stephen
Marsha Norman was born on September 21, 1947 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Portland sits at 43.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Virgo suns
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on September 21
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Fellow Yin Water day masters
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- Max MeltonAmerican football cornerback
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Other Virgo Pig charts
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Other Tidal Healers
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- Hayley MillsBritish actress (born 1946)
- Akshay VenkateshAustralian number theorist
- Enrico BombieriItalian mathematician (1940-)
Other Cancer risings with documented times
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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Stephen’s cards
Computed from September 21, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q39829 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stephen King at Wikipedia, stephenking.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 Stephen King.
Quick answers about Stephen King’s chart
- How old is Stephen King?
- Stephen King is 79 years old, born September 21, 1947 in Portland, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Stephen King?
- Stephen King is a Virgo: born September 21, 1947, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
- What is Stephen King's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 21, 1947 birth.
- What time was Stephen King born?
- 01:30 local time in Portland, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Stephen King's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 01:30 birth time in Portland, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is Stephen King's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Stephen King's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 7°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Stephen King's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 26°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Stephen King's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
