Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty (born April 13, 1909, Jackson, United States; died 2001), was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer. Welty is best remembered for The Robber Bridegroom, The Ponder Heart and The Optimist's Daughter. Welty's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Women's Hall of Fame.
Eudora Welty’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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Eudora Welty’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Eudora in the U.S.?
#5137
US rank in 2025
~2,179
Americans share it since 1880
1923
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Eudora’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
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What the chart says
Eudora, according to the stars
Core essence
Eudora leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Eudora is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Eudora wants to be loved
Eudora wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Eudora creates
How Eudora makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Eudora creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Eudora 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Eudora is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Eudora goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Eudora's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Eudora Welty in 15 seconds
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Eudora Welty's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 13, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Eudora Welty was born on April 13, 1909, which falls in a Earth 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 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Eudora Welty's birth date, April 13, 1909, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Eudora’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eudora Welty's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Eudora Welty combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Eudora’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Eudora Welty, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Eudora’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.0° to 1.1° orb
Eudora’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
Eudora’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextilePluto0.4° to 1.4° orb
Eudora’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareUranus1.2° to 2.4° orb
Eudora’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareUranus1.7° to 2.6° orb
Eudora’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.8° to 4.0° orb
Eudora’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareNeptune4.2° to 5.5° orb
Eudora’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 5.5° orb
Eudora’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.6° to 5.3° orb
Eudora’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.6° to 6.7° orb
Eudora’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.6° orb
Eudora’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Eudora’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Eudora making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 23°37′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Eudora caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosPisces 22°57′ (moves 0.62° 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. Eudora is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 27°40′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Eudora needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 22°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Eudora exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Ceres square Sun 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.0°
- Eros square Pluto 1.1°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.0°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.6°
- Chiron trine Pluto 3.0°
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°).
Eudora’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. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
5 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Eudora is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Eudora’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 Aries · 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.
T-square onto Venus · Uranus, Neptune, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn 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.
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.2°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.8°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Eudora Welty, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Eudora’s cards
Every card is computed from April 13, 1909, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Eudora Welty, 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
Eudora’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q259364, 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 AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eudora Welty 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 Eudora Welty’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Eudora Welty?
- Eudora Welty was an Aries: born April 13, 1909, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster.
- What was Eudora Welty's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 13, 1909 birth.
- What time was Eudora Welty 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 Eudora Welty's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 13, 1909 birth date.
- What was Eudora Welty's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 13, 1909 birth date.
- Where was Eudora Welty's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Eudora Welty's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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