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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Dragon, with 
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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
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Anna’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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.
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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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Anna Quindlen, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Anna’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionUranus1.6° to 2.5° orb
Anna’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunsquareNeptune2.1° to 3.0° orb
Anna’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.4° to 3.6° orb
Anna’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.7° to 3.8° orb
Anna’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.7° to 3.9° orb
Anna’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussquareNeptune4.6° orb
Anna’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquarePluto4.9° to 5.1° orb
Anna’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMercurysquareMars5.3° to 6.3° orb
Anna’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 9°04′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Anna is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°50′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Anna is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosVirgo 25°33′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Anna is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 17°02′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Anna is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 11°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Anna is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Anna’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Anna is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Anna’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Anna Quindlen, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Anna’s cards
Every card is computed from July 8, 1952, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Anna Quindlen, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Anna’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4767426, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon.
- 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 time was Anna Quindlen born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Anna Quindlen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the July 8, 1952 birth date.
- What is Anna Quindlen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 8, 1952 birth date.
- 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.
