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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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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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.

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

#499

US rank in 2025

~271,705

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

US name records start in 1880, 18 years after this birth. In that first year Edith ranked 28th among girls and 947th among boys, with 768 American girls and 5 boys registered.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Edith’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

3

Soul Urge · being heard

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on E (5) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Edith’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Edith apart

Michio Kaku (1947) and Sharon Tate (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Edith sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Edith

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Edith

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

PrivateExpressive
Edith

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Edith

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Edith

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Edith

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Edith’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 84.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 43.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Capella, in Auriga, 84.6° up.

Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 30% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Edith's chart is

Chart pattern score

27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Venus · 1 planet 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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Edith Wharton at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Cares 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.

What Aquarius means →

Metal Rooster

Prepared for everything, twice.

Edith Wharton was born on January 24, 1862, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

Edith Wharton's birth date, January 24, 1862, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Edith’s chart

Edith’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.2° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.3° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 0.4° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.5° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.6° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.1° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.2° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun in Aquarius · 4°31′☉4°Moon in Scorpio · 23°20′☽23°Mercury in Aquarius · 13°03′☿13°Venus in Pisces · 12°50′♀12°Mars in Sagittarius · 12°26′♂12°Jupiter in Virgo · 27°12′ · retrograde♃℞27°Saturn in Virgo · 22°14′ · retrograde♄℞22°Uranus in Gemini · 12°35′ · retrograde♅℞12°Neptune in Pisces · 29°25′♆29°Pluto in Taurus · 8°29′♇8°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableVenussquareMars0.3° to 0.5° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.2° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto3.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto3.7° to 5.4° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto4.1° to 4.6° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.0° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.2° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 0°14′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 19°41′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 28°10′ (moves 0.70° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 9°54′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 20°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Edith’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    in its own sign, Pisces; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Edith’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Edith’s cards

Computed from January 24, 1862. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Edith’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q276032 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Edith Wharton.

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.
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 was Edith Wharton's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Edith Wharton's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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