Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (born January 24, 1862, New York City, United States; died 1937), was an American writer and designer. Wharton is best remembered for The Touchstone, The Reef and The Mount. Wharton's honours include Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, National Women's Hall of Fame and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Edith Wharton’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rooster, with 
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Edith Wharton’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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~271,705
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
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Edith’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
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What the chart says
Edith, according to the stars
Core essence
Edith is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Edith is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Edith wants to be loved
Edith wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Edith, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Edith creates
How Edith makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Edith creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Edith is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Edith is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Edith has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Edith's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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.
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Edith Wharton at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Edith Wharton's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 24, 1862, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Edith Wharton was born on January 24, 1862, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Edith Wharton's birth date, January 24, 1862, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Edith’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edith Wharton's date-only chart is Mars opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Edith Wharton combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Edith’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Edith Wharton, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.4° orb
Edith’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Edith’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Edith’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysextileMars0.1° to 1.2° orb
Edith’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareMars0.3° to 0.5° orb
Edith’s affections grind against their drive.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.2° orb
Edith’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsquarePluto3.4° to 4.5° orb
Edith’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.7° to 5.4° orb
Edith’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextilePluto4.1° to 4.6° orb
Edith’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.0° orb
Edith’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.2° orb
Edith’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Edith’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 0°14′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Edith absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLibra 19°41′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Edith is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosPisces 28°10′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Edith is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 9°54′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Edith is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 20°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Edith is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Eros opposition Jupiter 1.0°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.2°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.5°
- Hygiea trine 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°).
Edith’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. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
in its own sign, Pisces; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Edith is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Edith’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.
T-square onto Venus · Mars, Uranus, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.9°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Edith Wharton, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Edith’s cards
Every card is computed from January 24, 1862, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Edith Wharton, 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
Edith’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q276032, 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 E. F. Cooper, Newport, Rhode Island, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edith Wharton at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Edith Wharton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edith Wharton?
- Edith Wharton was an Aquarius: born January 24, 1862, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster.
- What was Edith Wharton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 24, 1862 birth.
- What time was Edith Wharton 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 was Edith Wharton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the January 24, 1862 birth date.
- What was Edith Wharton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 24, 1862 birth date.
- Where was Edith Wharton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edith Wharton's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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