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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Monkey, with 
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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 1880
1918
its peak year
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Vernor’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Vernor sits
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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.
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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. 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.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Vernor Vinge, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 24° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
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
Vernor’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineUranus3.2° to 4.2° orb
Vernor’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussquarePluto3.8° to 5.1° orb
Vernor’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.2° to 4.3° orb
Vernor’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineSaturn4.3° to 5.5° orb
Vernor’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.7° to 5.6° orb
Vernor’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.2° orb
Vernor’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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.
⚷ ChironVirgo 24°07′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Vernor turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresVirgo 19°23′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Vernor caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Taurus 10°58′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Vernor wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 25°24′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Vernor carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Vernor exacting with themselves first.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Vernor’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Vernor 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 Vernor’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 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 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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Vernor Vinge, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Vernor’s family here
One relative of Vernor Vinge also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Vernor’s cards
Every card is computed from October 2, 1944, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Vernor Vinge, 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
Vernor’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312405, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey.
- 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 time was Vernor Vinge 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 Vernor Vinge's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 2, 1944 birth date.
- What was Vernor Vinge's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 2, 1944 birth date.
- 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.
