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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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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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

Of the names registered in 1909, Eudora came 1,027th, carried by 16 American girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Eudora’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

11

Soul Urge · insight

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on E (5) 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

Eudora’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Eudora apart

Thomas Jefferson (1743) and Samuel Beckett (1906) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Eudora sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Eudora

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Eudora

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Eudora

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Eudora

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Eudora

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Eudora

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Eudora’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 80.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 38.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Jackson that night

Computed for 32.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Jackson at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.2° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 32.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Jackson at all: they sit past the −57.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at last quarter, 44% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 30° down.

How unusual Eudora's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Mercury · 1 unaspected planet

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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Eudora Welty in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

Fires 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.

What Aries means →

Earth Rooster

Says what everyone was thinking.

Eudora Welty was born on April 13, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Eudora Welty's birth date, April 13, 1909, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Eudora’s chart

Eudora’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.1° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.1° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 1.8° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.8° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.1° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.9° orbSun in Aries · 23°09′☉23°Moon in Capricorn · 25°00′☽25°Mercury in Aries · 14°20′☿14°Venus in Aries · 19°15′♀19°Mars in Aquarius · 2°36′♂2°Jupiter in Virgo · 5°01′ · retrograde♃℞5°Saturn in Aries · 14°21′♄14°Uranus in Capricorn · 21°01′♅21°Neptune in Cancer · 14°24′♆14°Pluto in Gemini · 24°03′♇24°

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

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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

  • 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

  • stableVenussquareUranus1.2° to 2.4° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus1.7° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.8° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune4.2° to 5.5° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.6° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus6.6° to 6.7° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.6° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 27°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 23°37′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 22°57′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 27°40′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 22°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Eudora’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Eudora’s chart

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

  • 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°

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Eudora’s cards

Computed from April 13, 1909. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Visionary

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Eudora’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q259364 (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 AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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.
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 was Eudora Welty's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Eudora Welty's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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