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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Wallace
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
Wallace ranked 143rd among boys and 2,538th among girls in 1909, the year of this birth, with 185 American boys and 5 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Wallace’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
8
Soul Urge · achievement
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on W (5) 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
Wallace’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1909, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Wallace apart
Wallace Stegner took the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards in 1946, at 37.
The classrooms behind this chart: East High School and University of Iowa.
The working life starts in 1937, at 28.
Cause of death is recorded as traffic collision.
Wikipedia's editors put Wallace Stegner under People from Lake Mills, Iowa, Novelists from California and Academics from Great Falls, Montana.
Toni Morrison (1931) and John Travolta (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- East High School, University of Iowa and University of Utah
- Awards
- O. Henry Award (1950), Guggenheim Fellowship (1959) and National Book Award (1977)
- Working from
- 1937
- Cause of death
- traffic collision
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 31
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. Working below.
Where Wallace sits
Six lines
Wallace’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Wallace Stegner
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lake Mills 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 Lake Mills that night
Computed for 43.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Lake Mills was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 81.5° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 43.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Lake Mills at all: they sit past the −46.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 35° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Lake Mills, United States
The death is recorded at Santa Fe, Santa Fe County in 1993.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Wallace Stegner: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Wallace's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 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 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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
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
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.7° orb
stableSuntrinePluto5.1° to 6.1° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 23°41′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 8°18′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 20°13′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 19°13′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 16°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Wallace’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Wallace’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.2°
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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
Computed from February 18, 1909. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Wallace’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q203460 (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.
The same Wallace Stegner at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Wallace Stegner.
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.
- 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 was Wallace Stegner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Wallace Stegner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
