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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Suzy
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 1913
1962
its peak year
Suzy ranked 1,540th in 1939, the year of this birth, with 25 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Suzy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Suzy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Suzy apart
Doris Lessing (1919) and Javier Milei (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Suzy sits
Six lines
Suzy’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 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.
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 Suzy McKee Charnas
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Manhattan was Scheat, in Pegasus, 77.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 92 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, 77% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.
How unusual Suzy's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Pluto · 1 planet 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Aquarius or Pisces 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
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
stableMercurysquareMars3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 19°60′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 29°03′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 4°17′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 11°28′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 4°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Suzy’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Suzy’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
More people like Suzy
Other writers
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio1940
- Peter Nicholls1939
- William Taubman1940
- John W. Dower1938
- Jim Hoagland1940
- Ali Khamenei1939
Born in United States
- John O'KeefeAmerican British neuroscientist, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- George HamiltonAmerican film and television actor
- Jim HoaglandAmerican journalist
- Frank BidartAmerican poet
- F. Murray AbrahamAmerican actor (born 1939)
- Lily TomlinAmerican actress
More charts like Suzy’s
Fellow Libra suns
- John MayerAmerican musician
- Michelle TrachtenbergAmerican actress
- JiminSouth Korean singer and dancer (BTS)
Born in Rabbit years
- Susumu KitagawaJapanese chemist
- Gao XingjianChinese novelist and playwright (1940- )
- Bertha von SuttnerAustrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
Also born on October 22
- Doris Lessing1919
- Javier Milei1970
- Jeff Goldblum1952
- Shaggy1968
- 21 Savage1992
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson1975
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Trista SutterAmerican television personality
- Mark SallingAmerican actor and musician
- Tammy SlatonAmerican media personality
Other Libra Rabbit charts
- John MellencampAmerican singer-songwriter
- Terence CrawfordAmerican boxer
- Prabowo SubiantoPresident of the Republic of Indonesia
- Gibran Rakabuming Raka14th vice-president of Indonesia (since 2024)
Other Tidal Visionarys
- TreVeyon HendersonAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Case KeenumAmerican football player (born 1988)
- Harold LandryAmerican football player
- Jonathan MingoAmerican football player (born 2001)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Valentín BarcoArgentine asociation football player
- Tino LivramentoEnglish association football player (born 2002)
- Amine SbaïMoroccan and French association football player
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Suzy’s cards
Computed from October 22, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Suzy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q441603 (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 Catriona Sparks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Suzy McKee Charnas 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 Suzy McKee Charnas.
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.
- 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 was Suzy McKee Charnas's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Suzy McKee Charnas's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
