Ursula Vernon
Ursula Vernon (born May 28, 1977, Japan), aged 49, is an Author, illustrator. Vernon is best known for Digger. Vernon's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novella and Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
Ursula Vernon’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Ursula
Ursula Vernon’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
Ursula ranked 716th in 1977, the year of this birth, with 217 American girls on the register.
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
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on U (3) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
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
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, 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 Ursula apart
The shelf Ursula Vernon is read from: Digger.
The classrooms behind this chart: Macalester College.
The same date carries Elisabeth Hasselbeck. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Digger
- Educated at
- Macalester College
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Novel (2023), Nebula Award for Best Short Story (2015) and Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2021)
- Nominated for
- Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel and August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
What the chart says
Ursula, according to the stars
Core essence
Ursula 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. Ursula needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Ursula wants to be loved
Ursula wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Ursula creates
How Ursula makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Ursula creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ursula is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Ursula gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Ursula Vernon
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Japan 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 Japan that night
Computed for 35.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Japan was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 82.6° up.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 35.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Japan on any night.
Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon up and 75% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Ursula's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Saturn
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Ursula Vernon's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 28, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Ursula Vernon was born on May 28, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Ursula Vernon's birth date, May 28, 1977, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Ursula’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ursula Vernon's date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Ursula Vernon combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Ursula’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Ursula’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.0° to 0.2° orb
Ursula’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.2° to 0.3° orb
Ursula’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.3° to 0.5° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.8° to 3.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.9° to 3.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus3.1° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
stableSuntrinePluto4.4° to 5.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.9° to 5.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Ursula’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 3°35′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 28°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 11°36′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 11°04′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 3°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Pluto 0.0°
- Eros trine Mercury 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.9°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.8°
- Eros sextile Uranus 3.0°
Ursula’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Ursula’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Uranus, SaturnAn 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.6°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 2.0°
Born the same day as Ursula
Elisabeth Hasselbeck was born on May 28, 1977 too, 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Japan sits at 35.0°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Ursula
Other writers
- Sarah Pinsker1977
- Natalie Diaz1978
- Ray Nayler1976
- Colleen Hoover1979
- Paul Lynch1977
- Amal Clooney1978
Born in Japan
- Yusaku MaezawaJapanese billionaire and entrepreneur
- Wataru EndōJapanese association football player
- Takahisa TakaharaJapanese businessman
- Zach BryanAmerican country musician
- Glenn HowertonAmerican actor
- Shōgo TaniguchiJapanese association football player
More charts like Ursula’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Ada FerrerAmerican historian and academic
- Walter Jackson BateAmerican biographer
- Alfred AustinBritish writer and poet
Born in Snake years
- Alex WinterBritish actor
- Jason AldeanAmerican country singer
- Steve AokiAmerican DJ and music producer (born 1971)
Also born on May 28
- Kylie Minogue1968
- Marco Rubio1971
- Carey Mulligan1985
- Cameron Boyce1999
- Rudy Giuliani1944
- Lukas Gage1995
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Giovanni ReynaAmerican soccer player
- Fabian RiederSwiss association football player
- Elye WahiIvorian association football player (born 2003)
Other Gemini Snake charts
- Anne FrankGerman-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim
- Mikhail SholokhovSoviet writer
- Kanye WestAmerican rapper and record producer
- Peter HiggsBritish physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Other Evergreen Healers
- Daniel FaaleleAustralian gridiron football player (born 1999)
- Matthew BergeronCanadian gridiron football player (born 2000)
- Dan FeeneyAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Davante AdamsAmerican football player (born 1992)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Jeremy VuoloAmerican soccer player
- Trista SutterAmerican television personality
- Nev SchulmanAmerican television host, producer and photographer
From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Ursula’s cards
Computed from May 28, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ursula’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7901282 (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 Henry Söderlund, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ursula Vernon at Wikipedia, redwombatstudio.com, X 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 Vernon.
Quick answers about Ursula Vernon’s chart
- How old is Ursula Vernon?
- Ursula Vernon is 49 years old, born May 28, 1977 in Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Ursula Vernon?
- Ursula Vernon is a Gemini: born May 28, 1977, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Ursula Vernon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 28, 1977 birth.
- What is Ursula Vernon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ursula Vernon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ursula Vernon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ursula Vernon's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
