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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, Chinese zodiac was 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 1881

1967

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1929, Ursula came 608th, carried by 127 American girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ursula’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

6

Soul Urge · being needed

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on U (3) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Ursula’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Ursula apart

Alfred Nobel (1833) and Benjamin Netanyahu (1949) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Ursula sits

Six lines

Ursula’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Berkeley that night

Computed for 37.87°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Berkeley at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.7° above the horizon in Pegasus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.

From 37.9°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 −52.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 83% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.

How unusual Ursula's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Libra · 2 unaspected planets

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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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.

What Libra means →

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.

What the Snake means →

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.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Ursula’s chart

Ursula’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Gemini depending on the hour.

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.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus6.0° to 7.3° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

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

Ursula’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Ursula’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?

Ursula’s cards

Computed from October 21, 1929. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ursula’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q181659 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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.
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 was Ursula K. Le Guin's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Ursula K. Le Guin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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