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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Susan
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
Of the names registered in 1948, Susan came 5th among girls and 932nd among boys, carried by 35,988 American girls and 56 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Susan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Susan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1948, 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 Susan apart
Susan Wood took the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1981, at 33.
The classrooms behind this chart: Carleton University and University of Toronto.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Susan Wood: University of Toronto alumni, Canadian women essayists and Carleton University alumni.
Ray Bradbury (1920) and Dua Lipa (1995) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Carleton University and University of Toronto
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer (1981)
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
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. Working below.
Where Susan sits
Six lines
Susan’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 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 Susan Wood
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ottawa 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 Ottawa that night
Computed for 45.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Ottawa was Eltanin, in Draco, 83.8° up.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 45.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Ottawa at all: they sit past the −44.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 90% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 10° below the horizon.
How unusual Susan's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · 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.
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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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Pisces or Aries 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 0.8° 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
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn4.1° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto4.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 19°27′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 20°53′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 13°24′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 11°50′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 3°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Ceres square Mars 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 1.6°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.2°
Susan’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Susan’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Susan
Other university teachers
- Michael Moss1955
- Georges J. F. Köhler1946
- William G. Kaelin1957
- Michael Rosbash1944
- David Baker1962
- Richard Roberts1943
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More charts like Susan’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Andre DrummondAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- Nikola TopićSerbian basketball player (born 2005)
- Pacôme DadietFrench basketball player (born 2005)
Born in Rat years
- Meg TillyAmerican-Canadian actress
- Susan KohnerAmerican actress
- Louis Gossett Jr.American actor
Also born on August 22
- Ray Bradbury1920
- Dua Lipa1995
- Tori Amos1963
- Kristen Wiig1973
- Layne Staley1967
- Andrew Wilson1964
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Randy SchekmanNobel prize winning American cell biologist
- Richard HendersonNobel prize winning British biochemist (born 1945)
- John O'KeefeAmerican British neuroscientist, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Other Leo Rat charts
- Paolo BacigalupiAmerican science fiction and fantasy writer
- Hao JingfangChinese science fiction writer (1984-)
- Buddy GuyAmerican blues guitarist and singer
- Daichi KamadaJapanese association football player
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Ernesto BertarelliSwiss-Italian billionaire, entrepreneur, philanthropist
- Henry KravisAmerican businessman
- Cheng Kar ShunHong Kong businessman
- Anders Holch PovlsenDanish businessman
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Luke PerryAmerican actor
- Patrick StewartBritish actor (born 1940)
- Alexa PenaVegaAmerican actress
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Susan’s cards
Computed from August 22, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Susan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q14949655 (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 Sonofzog, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Susan Wood at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Susan Wood's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Susan Wood's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
