Writer
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game, and the only writer to win both major science fiction awards twice running.
Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987 to 2026). Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; he has provoked controversy and criticism for his public opposition to homosexuality.
- Born
- 1951-08-24, Richland, USAA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Virgo, Moon in Gemini
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1951-08-24, Richland, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Los_Angelesthe zone used then
America/Los_AngelesThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 0°47′ | Direct |
| Moon | Gemini | 4°48′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Virgo | 12°42′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Virgo | 15°45′ | Retrograde |
| Mars | Leo | 4°04′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Aries | 13°29′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Libra | 1°12′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Cancer | 12°37′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Libra | 17°35′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 19°51′ | Direct |
Orson Scott Card is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Orson Scott Card was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.