Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (born Adeline Virginia Alexandra Stephen; January 25, 1882, London, United Kingdom; died 1941), was an English modernist writer. Woolf is best remembered for The Waves, Orlando: A Biography and The Years.
Virginia Woolf’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Virginia
Virginia Woolf’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Virginia in the U.S.?
#526
US rank in 2025
~654,968
Americans share it since 1880
1922
its peak year
In 1882, 274 American girls were registered Virginia — 94th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Virginia’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Adeline Virginia Alexandra Stephen, not the name they published under.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Virginia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The record
What sets Virginia apart
To the Lighthouse, The Voyage Out and Mrs Dalloway. That is the work the name is attached to.
The schooling ran through King's College London.
Virginia Woolf was 22 when the work began in 1904.
Virginia Woolf lies at Monk's House.
Virginia Woolf was born to Julia Stephen and Leslie Stephen and married Leonard Woolf.
On Wikipedia the categories read Bloomsbury Group, Critics of Christianity and Dreadnought hoax.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (1978) and Corazon Aquino (1933) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- To the Lighthouse, The Voyage Out and Mrs Dalloway
- Educated at
- King's College London
- Working from
- 1904
- Buried at
- Monk's House
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 176
What the chart says
Virginia, according to the stars
Core essence
Virginia is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Virginia is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Virginia wants to be loved
Virginia wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Virginia you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Virginia creates
How Virginia makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Virginia builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Virginia 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Virginia is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Virginia scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Virginia's birth date. Working below.
Where Virginia sits
Six lines
Virginia’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Virginia Woolf
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London 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 London that night
Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at London was Capella, in Auriga, 84.0° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 45% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Adeline Virginia Alexandra Stephen
- Known as
- Virginia Woolf
- Born in
- London, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Lewes in 1941.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Virginia Woolf: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Virginia's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Taurus · Only two elements · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Virginia Woolf's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 25, 1882, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakePrivate by design.
Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Virginia Woolf's birth date, January 25, 1882, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Virginia’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Virginia Woolf's date-only chart is Sun square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Virginia Woolf combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Virginia’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Aries or Taurus 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
stableSunsquareSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Virginia’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.6° to 2.3° orb
Virginia’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrinePluto1.0° to 2.3° orb
Virginia’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.4° to 5.1° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.5° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 1.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Virginia’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 17°37′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 2°28′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 10°12′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 22°54′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 24°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mercury 0.4°
- Chiron trine Uranus 0.5°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.7°
Virginia’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Virginia’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Mars 1.7°
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Virginia’s cards
Computed from January 25, 1882. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Virginia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q40909 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Virginia Woolf at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Virginia Woolf.
Quick answers about Virginia Woolf’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Virginia Woolf?
- Virginia Woolf was an Aquarius: born January 25, 1882, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Virginia Woolf's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 25, 1882 birth.
- What was Virginia Woolf's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Virginia Woolf's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Virginia Woolf's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Virginia Woolf's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
