Vonda N. McIntyre
Vonda N. McIntyre (born August 28, 1948, Louisville, United States; died 2019), was an American science fiction writer. McIntyre's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Novel.
Vonda N. McIntyre’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
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Vonda N. McIntyre’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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Vonda’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
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What the chart says
Vonda, according to the stars
Core essence
Vonda notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Vonda is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Vonda 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 Vonda needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Vonda wants to be loved
Vonda wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Vonda gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Vonda creates
How Vonda 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. Vonda 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: Vonda is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Vonda is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
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. Vonda fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Vonda's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Vonda N. McIntyre at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Vonda N. McIntyre's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 28, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Vonda N. McIntyre was born on August 28, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Vonda N. McIntyre's birth date, August 28, 1948, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Vonda’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Vonda N. McIntyre's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Vonda N. McIntyre combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Vonda’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Vonda N. McIntyre, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Gemini 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.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.3° to 1.9° orb
Vonda’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.5° to 1.3° orb
Vonda’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.9° to 1.4° orb
Vonda’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.5° to 2.6° orb
Vonda’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineUranus3.4° to 4.1° orb
Vonda’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
Vonda’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrinePluto4.1° orb
Vonda’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableVenussquareMars6.5° to 6.8° orb
Vonda’s affections grind against their drive.
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Vonda’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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 19°50′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Vonda carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresCancer 23°21′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Vonda is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosLeo 19°01′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Vonda loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaLeo 13°58′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Vonda at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 4°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Vonda is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Chiron trine Venus 0.3°
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.6°
- Ceres square Mars 2.8°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.9°
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°).
Vonda’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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Vonda is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Vonda’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.2°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Vonda N. McIntyre, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Vonda’s cards
Every card is computed from August 28, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Vonda N. McIntyre, 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
Vonda’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q242162, 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 HerB104, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Vonda N. McIntyre at Wikipedia, vondanmcintyre.net, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
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 Vonda N. McIntyre’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Vonda N. McIntyre?
- Vonda N. McIntyre was a Virgo: born August 28, 1948, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat.
- What was Vonda N. McIntyre's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 28, 1948 birth.
- What time was Vonda N. McIntyre 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 Vonda N. McIntyre's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the August 28, 1948 birth date.
- What was Vonda N. McIntyre's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 28, 1948 birth date.
- Where was Vonda N. McIntyre's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Vonda N. McIntyre's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
