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Amy Madigan

Amy Madigan (born September 11, 1950, Chicago, United States), aged 76, is an American actress. Madigan's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and Theatre World Award.

Amy Madigan’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Amy Madigan’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Storyteller

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Amy in the U.S.?

#257

US rank in 2025

~703,484

Americans share it since 1880

1975

its peak year

In 1950, 1,184 American girls were registered Amy — 218th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Amy’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

3

Soul Urge · being heard

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Amy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia

Lavender · Lilac · Silver

The record

What sets Amy apart

Taraji P. Henson (1970) and Julia Nickson-Soul (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Amy, according to the stars

Core essence

Amy notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Amy is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Amy is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Amy needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Amy wants to be loved

Amy wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Amy and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Amy creates

How Amy 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. Amy 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: Amy is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Amy is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Amy runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Amy's birth date. Working below.

Where Amy sits

Six lines

Amy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Amy

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Amy

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Amy

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Amy

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Amy

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Amy

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Amy Madigan

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night

Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 3.8° of the exact zenith.

Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.

How unusual Amy's chart is

Chart pattern score

50 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Virgo · 2 planets 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.

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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Amy Madigan's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 11, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Metal Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

Amy Madigan was born on September 11, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Amy Madigan's birth date, September 11, 1950, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Amy’s chart

Amy’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.6° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.6° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.8° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.7° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 5.7° orbSun in Virgo · 18°23′☉18°Moon in Virgo · 12°42′☽12°Mercury in Virgo · 29°19′ · retrograde☿℞29°Venus in Virgo · 2°02′♀2°Mars in Scorpio · 20°23′♂20°Jupiter in Pisces · 0°24′ · retrograde♃℞0°Saturn in Virgo · 22°08′♄22°Uranus in Cancer · 8°59′♅8°Neptune in Libra · 16°02′♆16°Pluto in Leo · 18°46′♇18°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter1.0° to 2.3° orb

    Amy’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMarssquarePluto1.3° to 1.9° orb

    Amy’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn1.5° to 2.0° orb

    Amy’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableSunsextileMars1.8° to 2.1° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.3° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn6.7° to 7.6° orb

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 1.0° to 14.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 2.5° to 16.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 4.4° to 17.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Amy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 16°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 12°19′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLibra 8°56′ (moves 0.81° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 16°31′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 27°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Neptune 0.0°
  • Eros square Uranus 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.5°
  • Hygiea square Sun 1.9°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.2°
  • Chiron square Sun 2.3°
  • Chiron trine Pluto 2.7°

Amy’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Amy’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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 semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 1.0°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.1°
  • Saturn quintile Uranus 1.2°

Amy’s family here

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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection

Amy’s cards

Computed from September 11, 1950. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Amy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235219 (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.

Portrait by Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Amy Madigan at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Amy Madigan.

Quick answers about Amy Madigan’s chart

How old is Amy Madigan?
Amy Madigan is 76 years old, born September 11, 1950 in Chicago, United States.
What zodiac sign is Amy Madigan?
Amy Madigan is a Virgo: born September 11, 1950, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Amy Madigan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 11, 1950 birth.
What is Amy Madigan's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Amy Madigan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Amy Madigan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Amy Madigan's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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