Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge (born October 2, 1944, Waukesha, United States; died 2024), was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer. Vinge is best remembered for A Fire Upon the Deep and True Names. Vinge's honours include Prometheus Award, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Vernor Vinge’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Vernor
Vernor Vinge’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Vernor in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~118
Americans share it since 1915
1918
its peak year
US records hold Vernor from 1915 onward, though not for 1944 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1918 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Vernor’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on V (4) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Vernor’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
The record
What sets Vernor apart
Mahatma Gandhi (1869) and Alisson Becker (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Vernor, according to the stars
Core essence
Vernor makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Vernor 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, Vernor runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Vernor needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Vernor wants to be loved
Vernor 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 Vernor even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Vernor creates
How Vernor 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. Vernor 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: Vernor is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Vernor 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Vernor fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Vernor's birth date. Working below.
Where Vernor sits
Six lines
Vernor’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 Vernor Vinge
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Waukesha 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 Waukesha that night
Computed for 43.01°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Waukesha at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 3.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
From 43.0°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 −47.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.
How unusual Vernor's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Libra · T-square onto Saturn · A bowl chart
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Vernor Vinge's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 2, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Vernor Vinge was born on October 2, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Vernor Vinge's birth date, October 2, 1944, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Vernor’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Vernor Vinge's date-only chart is Sun sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Vernor Vinge combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Vernor’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 24° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextilePluto0.1° to 1.0° orb
Vernor’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareSaturn0.6° to 1.5° orb
Vernor’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareUranus1.5° to 1.7° orb
Vernor’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussextilePluto3.1° orb
stableSuntrineUranus3.2° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussquarePluto3.8° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn4.3° to 5.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.7° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.2° orb
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 14.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Vernor’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 24°07′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 19°23′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Taurus 10°58′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 25°24′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.5°
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Eros square Pluto 1.0°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.7°
Vernor’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Jupiter, Uranus
Configurations in Vernor’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
Vernor’s family here
One relative of Vernor Vinge also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Vernor
Other writers
- Douglas Hofstadter1945
- Stephen Greenblatt1943
- Kay Ryan1945
- Pat Barker1943
- John F. Burns1944
- Jil Sander1943
Born in United States
- Dennis FranzAmerican actor
- Marvin HamlischAmerican composer and conductor
- Kary MullisAmerican biochemist
- Craig T. NelsonAmerican actor and comedian (born 1944)
- Richard KinderAmerican businessman
- Thomas MarkleAmerican lighting director and father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
More charts like Vernor’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Doja CatAmerican singer and rapper
- FredBrazilian association football player
- Ranbir KapoorIndian actor
Born in Monkey years
- Antonin ArtaudFrench-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
- Dana AndrewsAmerican actor
- Olivia WilliamsBritish actress (born 1968)
Also born on October 2
- Mahatma Gandhi1869
- Alisson Becker1992
- Roberto Firmino1991
- Alice Walton1949
- Diamond Platnumz1989
- Michou2001
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Arthur B. McDonaldCanadian physicist (born 1943)
- Satoshi ŌmuraJapanese biochemist, microbiologist, and university teacher (born 1935)
- William C. CampbellIrish biochemist
Other Libra Monkey charts
- Hugo SigmanArgentine businessman and film producer
- Will SmithAmerican actor, film producer and rapper
- Kim KardashianAmerican media personality, businesswoman, model and actress
- Carrie FisherAmerican actress, writer and screenwriter
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Dylan CookAmerican football player
- Terry McLaurinAmerican football player
- Javon KinlawAmerican football defensive tackle
- Geno SmithAmerican football player (born 1990)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Jane AddamsAmerican feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer
- Richard WillstätterGerman chemist
- Gerd BinnigGerman physicist (born 1947)
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Vernor’s cards
Computed from October 2, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Vernor’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312405 (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 Raul654, Maarten1980, Zanaq, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Vernor Vinge 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 Vernor Vinge.
Quick answers about Vernor Vinge’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Vernor Vinge?
- Vernor Vinge was a Libra: born October 2, 1944, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Vernor Vinge's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 2, 1944 birth.
- What was Vernor Vinge's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Vernor Vinge's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Vernor Vinge's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Vernor Vinge's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
