Favourite writers and their Sun and or Moon sign

I was researching one of my favourite authors, Jack Kerouac. I would have thought with his love of travel and the road he would have had a Sag moon like me, but apparently he had a Virgo moon. It got me thinking of my other favourite authors and what their Sun signs were. David Sedaris (Capricorn), Tennessee Williams (Aries closer to the Pisces cusp), Malcolm Gladwell (Virgo), Kurt Vonnegut (Scorpio), Libba Bray (Pisces).... I have noticed most of my favourite authors tend to be of the Water or Earth variety.

Intended more towards Pisces but other signs can answer as well. Your sun sign and sun sign or moon sign of your favourite authors. Do you notice a pattern?

Me I am Pisces Sun, Sag Moon

Jane Austen - Sagittarius
Khaled Hosseini - Pisces
George R.R Martin - Virgo

I never realized Jane Austen was a Sag!

my favourite writers are usually Capricorn Suns (9th house) and/or Sag suns (10th, or 1st house)

Frank Herbert-Libra
HP Lovecraft-Leo
Phillip Dick-Saggitarius
Charles Dickens-Aquarius
Kurt Vonnegut-Scorpio

My two favorite authors:

John Connolly
Sun Gemini
Moon cancer/leo
Merc cancer
venus gemini
mars gemini

and

Joseph Delaney
Sun leo
Moon aquarius/capricorn
Merc leo
venus gemini
mars gemini

So, the only similarities are their venus and mars signs but I'm not sure if that would have anything to do with why I like their writing or stories. They don't really have much in common with my own chart, either.

Dostoievski - Scorpio

I just thought it was interesting all my favourite authors were of the signs I am usually friends with or like anyway.

I think that writing allows a person to express themselves in a purer way than they normally can in everyday life. For example, I usually don't like Scorpio guys, but I am a really big fan of Kurt Vonnegut and I think his work is very humane. Since reading his stuff I have come to think that a lot of Scorpio's are actually nice despite seeming like assholes in everyday interactions.

Posted by MidwestGirl
I never realized Jane Austen was a Sag!

yeah, her and Louisa May Alcott are my fave Sag lady writers. Although the women are different than the men. I dont get the feeling that the men are gonna be writing "Pride and Prejudice" or "Little women" ...perhaps, "Men and their little paradise." j/k.

ie, for Cap suns: Castaneda, Coelho, Tolkien, ect. w/ water or earth moons.

i also like virgo & taurus writers. (Shakespeare, Edgar Rice Burroughs) alot w/ pisces moons.

Gosh, it must be heaven to have a Pisces moon

I for some reason always thought Austen was maybe a Capricorn... maybe she has some in her chart. Yeah there are a lot of surprising Scorpio men. I have started to read Noam Chomsky and apparently he has had a big influence on two very well known players in the NFL. One being Pat Tillman (Scorpio) and John Moffitt (Scorpio). They both were pulled away from the mainstream by reading Noam Chomsky, other religions and realizing there is more to life. You would think in real life seeming like meatheads they would be a holes but apparently they were both nice and at least I know Pat was well respected. Interestingly enough Noam is a Sag sun.

Posted by Tornadoday16
I think that writing allows a person to express themselves in a purer way than they normally can in everyday life. For example, I usually don't like Scorpio guys, but I am a really big fan of Kurt Vonnegut and I think his work is very humane. Since reading his stuff I have come to think that a lot of Scorpio's are actually nice despite seeming like assholes in everyday interactions.

i too love these types of writers; they understand deeply the human condition.

@Midwestgirl
I'm really glad you bring up Noam Chomsky. I have read him and I couldnt decide if he was on the right or left side of the political spectrum. He seemed like generally paranoid, thats a trait I have observed in a lot of Sag writers, like Ray Bradbury, Phillip Dick, even Charles Manson is like the kind of inciting paranoia. Its interesting why Sags have this condition... I think I have heard it refered to as Apocalypse Syndrome..

I think generally he is more on the left spectrum but when it comes to critique both sides are fair game to him. I find that a common trait too. My best friend's boyfriend is a Sag sun and he is libertarian and very paranoid. He made up his own reverse osmosis filter for water because he is convinced the government puts more in the water than fluoride and whatever else they clean the water. I have found a lot of them to be libertarian in their thinking as well or at least identify a lot with that party.

It'd be interesting to see if anybody knows for sure the philosophers sun signs. I have always wondered what Aristotle, Plato, etc fell under.

I think Socrates would have been a Capricorn with some Pisces placements because he was very restrained. He has a famous quote where he said he was divinely inspired by his "sign" and that his "sign" never once told him to anything, it always told him not to do things. That sounds like the Capricorn restraint to me.
As for Aristotle I definitely think he would have been an Air sign because of how many different subjects he philosophized about and his attempt to explain things in a "scientific", rational way.

Good analysis. I have to agree about Aristotle I always got sense of an air sign. Possibly Aquarius... with some Gemini or vice versa

What about Libra? I don't really know a lot of Libra's but one of my favorite authors, Frank Herbert, was one and his famous series 'Dune' brushes on a vast array of subjects akin to those attributed to Aristotle.
But Gemini's always come across as too childish to me.

Yeah another Libra author that comes to mind is Thomas Wolfe.... who actually was a big influence to Kerouac... as well as Ulysses who is James Joyce I believe an Aquarian. I honestly don't know too much about air signs except Aquarius but that's only because I have it in my chart and seem to attract a lot of Aquarian friends/love interests.

Two of mine are:

Orson Scott Card - Virgo Sun, Gemini Moon
Eric Nylund - Scorpio Sun, Aquarius moon

Posted by Damnata
Dostoievski - Scorpio

I like him.

But he makes me feel neurotic. o.O


—I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.??

That's Dostoyevski 🙂

Have you ever noticed people with at least a bit of Aquarian in their chart gravitate towards sci fi? That's one of my favourite genres.

Yea I really like Dostoevsky too. Crime and Punishment, now that is a real tale of mental collapse and insanity, which, upon further inspection, seems to be what all Russian novels are about.

Yea thats the one thing I really like about Aqua's is their love of technology. And Sci-Fi is beautifully refreshing. I think that a lot of times Sci-Fi authors use technology as metaphors and symbols of their stance on philosophic issues

Posted by Tornadoday16
Yea thats the one thing I really like about Aqua's is their love of technology. And Sci-Fi is beautifully refreshing. I think that a lot of times Sci-Fi authors use technology as metaphors and symbols of their stance on philosophic issues

I find alot of Aquarius moons are this way. Virgo sun writer wrote about the "time machine" and going back in time. H.G. Wells. Everything revolved around "Love beyond time and space" that there were no boundaries when it came to love. You find your love in the past, present and future. It's the metaphor that love has no bounds.

had to look up Well's chart, a little in depth to understand, even though i'm amateurish at this....

http://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/H._G._Wells<BR>
his aquarius moon in the 12th house. Saturn, Venus & Lilith in Scorpio, cusping 9th house/8th house.
top dominants, cancer energy. Interesting.... Lol Uranus, Moon & Mercury.... love and sci-fi, rescuing the damsel from a very sure doom.

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Posted by Damnata
Dostoievski - Scorpio

I like him.

But he makes me feel neurotic. o.O


—I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.??

That's Dostoyevski 🙂

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His way of describing emotional processes rings so true for me. All throughout "Crime and Punishment" I had this feeling of paranoia..if an author manages to submerge me in the world of his books, I'm mesmerized.

@lisabethur8
I have been beginning to feel lately like the way Aquarius contributes to humanities well being is by freeing itself from the trap time sets for it and thus providing an example for others.

I just saw the guy who wrote the Planet of the Apes series Pierre Boulle is a Pisces. Tried looking up his chart, but not sure if he has any Aquarius. I just think that's interesting considering I think Planet of the Apes was metaphor for the civil rights movement or at least civil rights in general. That is why I like Sci Fi like you said, it can talk a lot about politics and problems of the day without being too blatant about it. It gets people thinking in abstract terms which sometimes does better at getting people out of their personal bubble and thinking more about rights in general.

Posted by MidwestGirl
I just saw the guy who wrote the Planet of the Apes series Pierre Boulle is a Pisces. Tried looking up his chart, but not sure if he has any Aquarius. I just think that's interesting considering I think Planet of the Apes was metaphor for the civil rights movement or at least civil rights in general. That is why I like Sci Fi like you said, it can talk a lot about politics and problems of the day without being too blatant about it. It gets people thinking in abstract terms which sometimes does better at getting people out of their personal bubble and thinking more about rights in general.

i am guessing that is why h.g.wells kept pointing to save his woman. He was not able to do it in the era he was in, so he invented a macihine that could.....but fate is cruel......and you cant save the one you love....saturns limtation and rules even in time, but the universe gave him another reason to live.

Planet of the apes is also another wonderful sci fi story...beyond time and space. The ending was so cruel, though. I love politics in an abstract way, a more fantasy like world. It makes you as an individual note how so cruel people are, by showing human weaknesses and strengths....what makes and breaks them.

Neruda - Cancer

Rumi - Libra

Sometimes F. Scott Fitzgerald (Libra) gets it right .I like his lesser known works

like some of his short stories.i.e- Absolution

I just found John Steinbeck was Pisces Sun Aqua Mercury. wow. Scorp Moon.

Maybe i should start reading more adult fiction. I feel like i'm stuck with young adult.

I feel undeniable affinity to Leo sun's writing style and plots. A couple of Sags too but not as strong as Leos.