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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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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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.

How common is the name Vonda in the U.S.?

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outside the current top list

~10,323

Americans share it since 1899

1965

its peak year

In 1948, 108 American girls were registered Vonda — 843rd on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Vonda’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on V (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Vonda’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Vonda apart

Jack Black (1969) and Shania Twain (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Vonda sits

Six lines

Vonda’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Vonda

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Vonda

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Vonda

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Vonda

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Vonda

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Vonda

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Vonda N. McIntyre

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Louisville on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Vonda’s birth-night reference starFawarisblue-white · CygnusFawaris, in Cygnus. A blue-white star, 83.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Fawaris →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 10.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Louisville that night

Computed for 38.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Louisville at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.2° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Louisville sits at 38.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −51.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 36% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 28° below the horizon.

How unusual Vonda's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mercury · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all

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.

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Vonda N. McIntyre at a glance

Virgo Sun

Order 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.

What Virgo means →

Earth Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Vonda N. McIntyre was born on August 28, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 4

The 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.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Vonda’s chart

Vonda’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.1° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.2° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbMoon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.2° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.6° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 3.3° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.8° orbSun in Virgo · 5°18′☉5°Moon in Gemini · 17°10′☽17°Mercury in Virgo · 20°29′☿20°Venus in Cancer · 19°34′♀19°Mars in Libra · 26°11′♂26°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 19°21′♃19°Saturn in Leo · 27°21′♄27°Uranus in Gemini · 29°56′♅29°Neptune in Libra · 11°23′♆11°Pluto in Leo · 15°13′♇15°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableMarstrineUranus3.4° to 4.1° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto4.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars6.5° to 6.8° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 19°50′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 23°21′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLeo 19°01′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 13°58′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 4°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Vonda’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Vonda’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Vonda’s cards

Computed from August 28, 1948. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Explorer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

4 · Architect

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Vonda’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q242162 (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 HerB104, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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.
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 was Vonda N. McIntyre's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Vonda N. McIntyre's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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