Susan Wood
Susan Wood (born August 22, 1948, Ottawa, Canada; died 1980), was a Canadian writer. Wood's honours include Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.
Susan Wood’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rat, with 
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Susan Wood’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Susan in the U.S.?
#1091
US rank in 2025
~1,126,022
Americans share it since 1880
1955
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Susan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Susan, according to the stars
Core essence
Susan is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Susan 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.
How Susan wants to be loved
Susan wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Susan gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Susan creates
How Susan makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Susan creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Susan 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 7 is the seeker. Susan is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Susan fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Susan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Susan sits
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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Susan Wood in 15 seconds
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Susan Wood's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 22, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Susan Wood was born on August 22, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Susan Wood's birth date, August 22, 1948, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Susan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Susan Wood's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Susan Wood combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Susan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Susan Wood, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Susan’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.4° to 3.3° orb
Susan’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareNeptune2.5° to 3.4° orb
Susan’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.8° to 3.4° orb
Susan’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
Susan’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.8° to 4.7° orb
Susan’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
Susan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileSaturn4.1° to 4.6° orb
Susan’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitertrinePluto4.1° orb
Susan’s growth flows straight into their depths.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 3.8° to 15.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 6.3° to 18.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Susan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironScorpio 19°27′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Susan carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresCancer 20°53′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Susan is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosLeo 13°24′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Susan loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaLeo 11°50′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Susan at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 3°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Susan is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Ceres square Mars 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 1.6°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.2°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Susan’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Susan is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Susan’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Saturn, 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 0.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Susan Wood, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Susan’s cards
Every card is computed from August 22, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Susan Wood, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Susan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q14949655, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Sonofzog, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Susan Wood at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Susan Wood.
Quick answers about Susan Wood’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Susan Wood?
- Susan Wood was a Leo: born August 22, 1948, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat.
- What was Susan Wood's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 22, 1948 birth.
- What time was Susan Wood born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Susan Wood's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 22, 1948 birth date.
- What was Susan Wood's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 22, 1948 birth date.
- Where was Susan Wood's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Susan Wood's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
