Tansy Rayner Roberts
Tansy Rayner Roberts (born May 22, 1978, Hobart, Australia), aged 48, is an Australian fantasy and crime fiction writer. Roberts's honours include Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel and Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.
Tansy Rayner Roberts’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Tansy
Tansy Rayner Roberts’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Tansy in the U.S.?
#7454
US rank in 2025
~391
Americans share it since 1920
2025
its peak year
In 1978, 13 American girls were registered Tansy — 5,183rd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tansy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on T (2) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Tansy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1978, 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 Tansy apart
The Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel came in 2010, when Tansy Rayner Roberts was 32.
On Wikipedia the categories read Australian women short story writers and Hugo Award-winning fan writers.
Katie Price and Ginnifer Goodwin shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Awards
- Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel (2010) and Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer (2013)
- Nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Short Story and Hugo Award for Best Fancast
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
Tansy, according to the stars
Core essence
Tansy is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Tansy needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Tansy creates
How Tansy makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Tansy builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Tansy is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Tansy 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Tansy fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Tansy's birth date. Working below.
Where Tansy sits
Six lines
Tansy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hobart 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 Hobart that night
Computed for 42.88°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Muhlifain stood nearest the zenith over Hobart at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.9° above the horizon in Centaurus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 72 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.9°S, Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.
How unusual Tansy's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · 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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Tansy Rayner Roberts's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 22, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Tansy Rayner Roberts was born on May 22, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Tansy Rayner Roberts's birth date, May 22, 1978, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Tansy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tansy Rayner Roberts' date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Tansy Rayner Roberts combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Tansy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.3° to 1.6° orb
Tansy’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.3° to 0.8° orb
Tansy’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° orb
Tansy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextilePluto3.5° to 4.0° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.0° to 4.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.9° to 6.5° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn5.9° to 6.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn6.1° to 6.6° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus6.5° to 6.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter6.6° to 7.6° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Tansy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 6°57′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 23°58′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 1°16′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 0°51′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.3°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.6°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.9°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.1°
Tansy’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Tansy’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.4°
Born the same day as Tansy
2 other people here were born on May 22, 1978, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Hobart, at 42.9°S, Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Tansy
Other writers
- Ray Nayler1976
- Venus Williams1980
- Benjamin Moser1976
- Freida McFadden1980
- Evan Osnos1976
- Ronaldinho1980
Born in Australia
- Portia de RossiAustralian-American actress
- Abbie CornishAustralian actress (1982-)
- Cathy FreemanAustralian short-distance runner
- Yvonne StrahovskiAustralian actress
- Adam GarciaAustralian actor and tap dancer
- Corey BohanAustralian BMX rider
More charts like Tansy’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Mark FlekkenDutch footballer (born 1993)
- Abdoulaye SeckSenegalese footballer (born 1992)
- Nicolás de la CruzUruguayan association football player
Born in Horse years
- Whitney PeakUgandan-Canadian actress
- Shiho KuwakiJapanese professional golfer (born 2003)
- Asher AngelAmerican actor
Also born on May 22
- Novak Djokovic1987
- Naomi Campbell1970
- Morrissey1959
- Katie Price1978
- Christine Mboma2003
- Emma Chamberlain2001
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- The MizAmerican professional wrestler, actor and television personality (born 1980)
- John LegendAmerican singer-songwriter
- Chad LoweAmerican actor and director
Other Gemini Horse charts
- Evan SpiegelAmerican businessman
- Ryan HigaAmerican Internet personality and actor
- Jacob AndersonEnglish actor and singer
- Ben HorowitzAmerican businessman
Other Evergreen Seekers
- Toni MorrisonAfrican American novelist, essayist, and academic
- Julia RobertsAmerican actress
- James CameronCanadian filmmaker and explorer
- Mila KunisAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 7
- John Hasbrouck Van VleckAmerican physicist
- Daniel C. TsuiChinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
- Rolf M. ZinkernagelSwiss immunologist (born 1944)
From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Tansy’s cards
Computed from May 22, 1978. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tansy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7683780 (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 from Wollongong, Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tansy Rayner Roberts at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tansy Rayner Roberts.
Quick answers about Tansy Rayner Roberts’s chart
- How old is Tansy Rayner Roberts?
- Tansy Rayner Roberts is 48 years old, born May 22, 1978 in Hobart, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Tansy Rayner Roberts?
- Tansy Rayner Roberts is a Gemini: born May 22, 1978, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Tansy Rayner Roberts's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 22, 1978 birth.
- What is Tansy Rayner Roberts's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tansy Rayner Roberts's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Tansy Rayner Roberts's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tansy Rayner Roberts's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
