Steven Millhauser
Steven Millhauser (born August 3, 1943, New York City, United States), aged 83, is an American novelist and short story writer. Millhauser's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Prix Médicis étranger and World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.
Steven Millhauser’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Steven
Steven Millhauser’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Steven in the U.S.?
#271
US rank in 2025
~1,297,590
Americans share it since 1880
1956
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1943, Steven came 58th among boys and 2,544th among girls, carried by 4,267 American boys and 14 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Steven’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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
Steven’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
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 1943, 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 Steven apart
Steven Millhauser took the Prix Médicis étranger in 1975, at 32.
The classrooms behind this chart: Brown University and Columbia University.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Steven Millhauser: Skidmore College faculty, People from Saratoga Springs, New York and Prix Médicis étranger winners.
Tom Brady (1977) and Martha Stewart (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Brown University and Columbia University
- Awards
- Prix Médicis étranger (1975), World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction (1990) and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1997)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Award for Fiction
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 18
What the chart says
Steven, according to the stars
Core essence
Steven is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Steven is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Steven 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 Steven needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Steven wants to be loved
Steven wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Steven and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Steven creates
How Steven makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Steven 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: Steven is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Steven 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 Steven leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Steven is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Steven's birth date. Working below.
Where Steven sits
Six lines
Steven’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 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 Steven Millhauser
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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 Rastaban, in Draco, 76.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 7% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.
How unusual Steven's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Steven Millhauser's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 3, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Steven Millhauser was born on August 3, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Steven Millhauser's birth date, August 3, 1943, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Steven’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Steven Millhauser's date-only chart is Venus trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Steven Millhauser combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Steven’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° 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
stableMoonsquareUranus0.1° to 6.5° orb
Steven’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineMars0.1° to 0.3° orb
Steven’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Steven’s growth and depths act as one.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.6° to 0.8° orb
stableUranussextilePluto1.2° orb
stableSunsextileUranus1.9° to 2.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter2.7° to 3.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.3° to 4.9° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.7° to 5.0° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 4.6° to 15.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 4.7° to 16.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Steven’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 1°01′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 17°11′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 12°45′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 3°45′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°54′ (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 sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 0.5°
- Ceres square Venus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.5°
Steven’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Steven’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.9°
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Fellow Yin Water day masters
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- Gerhart HauptmannGerman dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Steven’s cards
Computed from August 3, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Steven’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q640807 (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 Steven Millhauser 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 Steven Millhauser.
Quick answers about Steven Millhauser’s chart
- How old is Steven Millhauser?
- Steven Millhauser is 83 years old, born August 3, 1943 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Steven Millhauser?
- Steven Millhauser is a Leo: born August 3, 1943, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Steven Millhauser's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 3, 1943 birth.
- What is Steven Millhauser's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Steven Millhauser's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Steven Millhauser's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Steven Millhauser's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
