Suzy McKee Charnas
Suzy McKee Charnas (born October 22, 1939, Manhattan, United States; died 2023), was an American writer. Charnas is best remembered for The Ruby Tear, The Kingdom of Kevin Malone and The Holdfast Chronicles. Charnas's honours include Nebula Award for Best Novella, Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Otherwise Award.
Suzy McKee Charnas’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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Suzy McKee Charnas’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Suzy in the U.S.?
#5888
US rank in 2025
~4,270
Americans share it since 1880
1962
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Suzy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Suzy, according to the stars
Core essence
Suzy makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Suzy is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Suzy wants to be loved
Suzy wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Suzy even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Suzy creates
How Suzy makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Suzy creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Suzy is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Suzy is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Suzy goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Suzy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Suzy McKee Charnas's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 22, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Suzy McKee Charnas was born on October 22, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Suzy McKee Charnas's birth date, October 22, 1939, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Suzy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Suzy McKee Charnas' date-only chart is Sun opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Suzy McKee Charnas combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Suzy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Suzy McKee Charnas, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Aquarius or Pisces 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.
stableSunoppositionSaturn0.1° to 1.2° orb
Suzy’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrinePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
Suzy’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableVenussquareMars2.3° to 3.0° orb
Suzy’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus3.0° to 4.4° orb
Suzy’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareMars3.3° to 4.2° orb
Suzy’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
Suzy’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquarePluto4.0° to 5.0° orb
Suzy’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb
Suzy’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.5° orb
Suzy’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb
Suzy’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Suzy’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.
⚷ ChironCancer 19°60′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Suzy is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresLeo 29°03′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Suzy is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosVirgo 4°17′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Suzy is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 11°28′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Suzy is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 4°03′ (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. Suzy 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.
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.3°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.9°
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°).
Suzy’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Suzy is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Suzy’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.
T-square onto Pluto · Sun, Saturn, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Suzy McKee Charnas, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Suzy’s cards
Every card is computed from October 22, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Suzy McKee Charnas, 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
Suzy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q441603, 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 Catriona Sparks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Suzy McKee Charnas at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
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Quick answers about Suzy McKee Charnas’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Suzy McKee Charnas?
- Suzy McKee Charnas was a Libra: born October 22, 1939, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit.
- What was Suzy McKee Charnas's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 22, 1939 birth.
- What time was Suzy McKee Charnas 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 Suzy McKee Charnas's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the October 22, 1939 birth date.
- What was Suzy McKee Charnas's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 22, 1939 birth date.
- Where was Suzy McKee Charnas's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Suzy McKee Charnas's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
