Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen (born July 8, 1952, Philadelphia, United States), aged 74, is an American journalist and novelist (born 1952). Quindlen's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Anna Quindlen’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Anna
Anna Quindlen’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Anna in the U.S.?
#107
US rank in 2025
~917,615
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
In 1952, 3,714 American girls and 15 boys were registered Anna — 101st among girls and 2,012th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Anna’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
1
Soul Urge · independence
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on A (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Anna’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1952, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Anna apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary came in 1992, when Anna Quindlen was 40.
Anna Quindlen was taught at South Brunswick High School and Barnard College.
On Wikipedia the categories read Writers from Middlesex County, New Jersey, South Brunswick High School (New Jersey) alumni and Wesleyan University people.
John D. Rockefeller (1839) and Son Heung-min (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- South Brunswick High School and Barnard College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1992) and New Jersey Hall of Fame (2015)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Anna, according to the stars
Core essence
Anna feels the room before entering it. The core of Anna is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Anna, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Anna wants to be loved
Anna wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Anna gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Anna creates
How Anna makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Anna creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Anna is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Anna is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Anna 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 Anna's birth date. Working below.
Where Anna sits
Six lines
Anna’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Anna Quindlen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Philadelphia at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.4° above the horizon in Boötes.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
Philadelphia sits at 40.0°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 Philadelphia at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Philadelphia, United States
- Lives in
- Manhattan
Wikidata records Manhattan as Anna Quindlen's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Anna Quindlen: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Anna's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Anna Quindlen's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 8, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Anna Quindlen was born on July 8, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Anna Quindlen's birth date, July 8, 1952, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Anna’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Anna Quindlen's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Anna Quindlen combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Anna’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° 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
stableVenussquareNeptune0.6° to 1.9° orb
Anna’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.7° to 0.8° orb
Anna’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.9° to 1.7° orb
Anna’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus1.6° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune2.1° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.4° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.7° to 3.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.7° to 3.9° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.6° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto4.9° to 5.1° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.3° to 6.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Anna’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 9°04′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°50′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 25°33′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 17°02′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 11°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.5°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.7°
Anna’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mercury, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Anna’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.3°
More people like Anna
Other writers
- Paula Vogel1951
- Jayne Anne Phillips1952
- Gregory White Smith1951
- Rita Dove1952
- Oscar Hijuelos1951
- Simon Doonan1952
Born in United States
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- David HasselhoffAmerican actor, singer, producer, and businessman (born 1952)
- Christine BaranskiAmerican actress (born 1952)
- Jayne Anne PhillipsAmerican writer (born 1952)
- Jacqui BanaszynskiAmerican journalist and academic
- Joel BrinkleyAmerican journalist
More charts like Anna’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Dean ParisotAmerican film and television director
- Kelly LinkAmerican writer
- Charles SheffieldBritish mathematician, physicist and writer
Born in Dragon years
- Alexis SánchezChilean footballer
- Diego CostaBrazilian association football player
- Lenny KravitzAmerican guitarist and singer
Also born on July 8
- John D. Rockefeller1839
- Son Heung-min1992
- Virgil van Dijk1991
- Sophia Bush1982
- Jaden Smith1998
- Jess Mariano1977
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Tom ColicchioAmerican chef
- Natalie DormerEnglish actress
- Alexis DenisofAmerican actor
Other Cancer Dragon charts
- Alexei AbrikosovSoviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist
- Vinícius JúniorBrazilian association football player
- Conor McGregorIrish boxer and mixed martial arts fighter
- Chris CornellAmerican musician
Other Evergreen Pioneers
- John La MontaineAmerican musician
- Tyler HicksAmerican photojournalist
- John ColtraneAmerican jazz saxophonist
- Alfred TennysonBritish Poet Laureate
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Erwin NeherGerman biophysicist
- Ralph SteinmanCanadian immunologist and cell biologist
- Howard FloreyAustralian pathologist
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Anna’s cards
Computed from July 8, 1952. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Anna’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4767426 (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 Angela Radulescu from New York, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Anna Quindlen at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anna Quindlen.
Quick answers about Anna Quindlen’s chart
- How old is Anna Quindlen?
- Anna Quindlen is 74 years old, born July 8, 1952 in Philadelphia, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Anna Quindlen?
- Anna Quindlen is a Cancer: born July 8, 1952, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Anna Quindlen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 8, 1952 birth.
- What is Anna Quindlen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Anna Quindlen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Anna Quindlen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Anna Quindlen's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
