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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin, Novelist and essayist (1929-2018), joins the permanent Shrine record.

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Life, work & what’s documented

Ursula K. Le Guin was born on 1929-10-21 and died on 2018-01-22 at age 88. A foundational speculative-fiction writer whose work joined imaginative world-building with political and philosophical rigor. Representative work and achievements include The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, A Wizard of Earthsea.

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A foundational speculative-fiction writer whose work joined imaginative world-building with political and philosophical rigor. Representative work and achievements include The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, A Wizard of Earthsea.

Essential works: The Left Hand of Darkness · The Dispossessed · A Wizard of Earthsea

Statistics / evidence

Context is not destiny

Born 1929-10-21; died 2018-01-22; age at death 88. These dates provide historical context, not a mortality model.

Death context: Ursula K. Le Guin died on 2018-01-22 at age 88. This Shrine records the sourced date and age without adding unsupported medical or death-circumstance detail.

Historical illness and age are context, not proof of a current crisis or a factual mortality forecast.

Astrology / interpretation

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SunLibra 27.6°

MoonTaurus or Gemini 6.6°

MercuryLibra 9.6°

VenusLibra 1.6°

MarsScorpio 10.3°

JupiterGemini 16.0°

SaturnSagittarius 26.1°

UranusAries 8.7°

NeptuneVirgo 3.0°

PlutoCancer 19.6°

These placements are deterministic astronomical calculations. Interpretive meaning is separate from health, mortality, and factual claims.

Calculation confidence: date_based_reliable_birth_time_unknown. Moon: calculated with sign boundary uncertainty. Rising sign: birth time needed. Date-based geocentric placements use a noon UTC reference. Moon uncertainty is retained. No Ascendant or houses are inferred. Astrology is interpretation, not fact, medicine, or mortality prediction.

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Official website candidateOfficial site / 2026-08-30 / identity / confidence: highSelected for the listed claims only. Discovery indexes are not publication evidence.
Encyclopaedia Britannica candidateEncyclopaedia Britannica / 2026-08-30 / identity / confidence: mediumSelected for the listed claims only. Discovery indexes are not publication evidence.

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Research last updated 2026-08-30.

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Marian Wood Kolisch, Oregon State University Restored by Adam Cuerden | CC BY-SA 2.0 | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ursula_Le_Guin_(3551195631)_-_Restoration.jpg

Exact source file · CC BY-SA 2.0 2.0 · Retrieved 2026-08-27.

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