Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner (born February 18, 1909, Lake Mills, United States; died 1993), was an American historian, writer, and environmentalist. Stegner's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award and O. Henry Award.
Wallace Stegner’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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Wallace Stegner’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Wallace in the U.S.?
#964
US rank in 2025
~83,851
Americans share it since 1880
1923
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Wallace’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Wallace, according to the stars
Core essence
Wallace is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Wallace 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 Wallace wants to be loved
Wallace wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Wallace be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Wallace creates
How Wallace 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. Wallace 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: Wallace is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Wallace 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Wallace has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Wallace's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Wallace sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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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The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Wallace Stegner's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 18, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Wallace Stegner was born on February 18, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Wallace Stegner's birth date, February 18, 1909, 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 Wallace’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Wallace Stegner's date-only chart is Mars opposition Pluto, with an orb of about 3°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Wallace Stegner combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Wallace’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Wallace Stegner, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.0° to 3.9° orb
Wallace’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionPluto2.2° to 2.9° orb
Wallace’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextileMars2.9° to 3.2° orb
Wallace’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenussextileSaturn3.7° to 4.9° orb
Wallace’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
Wallace’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.7° orb
Wallace’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrinePluto5.1° to 6.1° orb
Wallace’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
Wallace’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 1.8° to 17.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Wallace’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 23°41′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Wallace making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 8°18′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Wallace caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAquarius 20°13′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Wallace is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaGemini 19°13′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Wallace needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 16°00′ (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 Wallace 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.
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.2°
- Ceres square Saturn 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.6°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.7°
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°).
Wallace’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. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Wallace is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Wallace’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 Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Wallace Stegner, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Wallace’s cards
Every card is computed from February 18, 1909, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Wallace Stegner, 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
Wallace’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q203460, 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.
The same Wallace Stegner 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 Wallace Stegner’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Wallace Stegner?
- Wallace Stegner was an Aquarius: born February 18, 1909, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster.
- What was Wallace Stegner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 18, 1909 birth.
- What time was Wallace Stegner 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 Wallace Stegner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the February 18, 1909 birth date.
- What was Wallace Stegner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 18, 1909 birth date.
- Where was Wallace Stegner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Wallace Stegner's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
