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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin (born October 21, 1929, Berkeley, United States; died 2018), was an American fantasy and science fiction author. Guin is best remembered for The Beginning Place, Earthsea series and Dancing at the Edge of the World. Guin's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and Hugo Award for Best Related Work.

Ursula K. Le Guin’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Visionary

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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Ursula in the U.S.?

#4747

US rank in 2025

~14,811

Americans share it since 1880

1967

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Ursula’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 8 · 9

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

Ursula, according to the stars

Core essence

Ursula makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Ursula 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Ursula processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Ursula needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Ursula wants to be loved

Ursula wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Ursula gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Ursula creates

How Ursula 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. Ursula 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: Ursula is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ursula 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Ursula runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Ursula's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Ursula sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Ursula

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ursula

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Ursula

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ursula

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Ursula

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ursula

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ursula K. Le Guin

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Berkeley on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Ursula’s birth-night reference starScheatdeep red · PegasusScheat, in Pegasus. A deep red star, 79.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Scheat →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 23.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Libra Sun

Makes the peace, keeps the peace.

Ursula K. Le Guin's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 21, 1929, 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 Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Ursula K. Le Guin was born on October 21, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

Ursula K. Le Guin's birth date, October 21, 1929, 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 Ursula’s chart

Ursula’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Ursula K. Le Guin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.2° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 1.4° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.8° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 4.6° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 5.9° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 6.1° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 6.7° orbSun in Libra · 27°56′☉27°Moon in Gemini · 11°19′☽11°Mercury in Libra · 9°53′☿9°Venus in Libra · 2°00′♀1°Mars in Scorpio · 10°29′♂10°Jupiter in Gemini · 15°57′ · retrograde♃℞15°Saturn in Sagittarius · 26°09′♄26°Uranus in Aries · 8°39′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Virgo · 3°01′♆3°Pluto in Cancer · 19°38′ · retrograde♇℞19°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
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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.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.8° to 1.6° orb

    Ursula’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn1.3° to 2.3° orb

    Ursula’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.3° to 6.4° orb

    Ursula’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter5.7° to 6.5° orb

    Ursula’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus6.0° to 7.3° orb

    Ursula’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb

    Ursula’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 1.2° to 15.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 2.8° to 15.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileNeptuneorb from 4.6° to 5.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Ursula’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 12°42′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Ursula building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 18°54′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Ursula feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 24°47′ (moves 0.67° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Ursula is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 5°34′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Ursula feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 17°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Ursula is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

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.

  • Chiron opposition Mars 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 3.0°

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°).

Ursula’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. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn3 pts

    3 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ursula 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 Ursula’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, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.4°
  • Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 0.7°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.6°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ursula K. Le Guin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Ursula’s cards

Every card is computed from October 21, 1929, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

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The Steadfast Visionary

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Ursula K. Le Guin, 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

Ursula’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q181659, 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 Marian Wood Kolisch, Oregon State University Restored by Adam Cuerden, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ursula K. Le Guin at Wikipedia, ursulakleguin.com, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

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 Ursula K. Le Guin’s chart

What zodiac sign was Ursula K. Le Guin?
Ursula K. Le Guin was a Libra: born October 21, 1929, 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 Snake.
What was Ursula K. Le Guin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 21, 1929 birth.
What time was Ursula K. Le Guin 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 Ursula K. Le Guin's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the October 21, 1929 birth date.
What was Ursula K. Le Guin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 21, 1929 birth date.
Where was Ursula K. Le Guin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Ursula K. Le Guin's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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