MacKinlay Kantor
MacKinlay Kantor (born February 4, 1904, Webster City, United States; died 1977), was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. Kantor's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
MacKinlay Kantor’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with MacKinlay
MacKinlay Kantor’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
What MacKinlay’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 2: drive against tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
MacKinlay’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1903, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets MacKinlay apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction came in 1956, when MacKinlay Kantor was 52.
The record gives myocardial infarction as the cause, and Graceland Cemetery as the resting place.
On Wikipedia the categories read American people of Swedish-Jewish descent, People from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey and Screenwriters from Florida.
Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931) and Jenny Shipley (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1956)
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Graceland Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 21
What the chart says
MacKinlay, according to the stars
Core essence
MacKinlay is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of MacKinlay 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 MacKinlay wants to be loved
MacKinlay wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show MacKinlay you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How MacKinlay creates
How MacKinlay 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. MacKinlay 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: MacKinlay is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. MacKinlay is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; MacKinlay slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from MacKinlay's birth date. Working below.
Where MacKinlay sits
Six lines
MacKinlay’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to MacKinlay Kantor
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Webster City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Webster City that night
Computed for 42.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Webster City was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 86.7° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
Webster City sits at 42.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Webster City at all: they sit past the −47.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 84% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 38° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Webster City, United States
The death is recorded at Sarasota, Sarasota County in 1977.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for MacKinlay Kantor: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual MacKinlay's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Uranus · A leaning bowl
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.
Score your own chart →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
MacKinlay Kantor's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 4, 1904, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
MacKinlay Kantor was born on February 4, 1904, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
MacKinlay Kantor's birth date, February 4, 1904, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in MacKinlay’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in MacKinlay Kantor's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Saturn, with an orb of about 3°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- MacKinlay Kantor combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
MacKinlay’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.0° to 2.9° orb
MacKinlay’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.3° to 3.5° orb
MacKinlay’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrinePluto3.8° to 4.8° orb
MacKinlay’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter4.5° to 5.0° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.3° to 5.6° orb
stableMarssquarePluto5.8° to 6.6° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
MacKinlay’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 25°32′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 8°38′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 6°39′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 0°48′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 20°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Venus 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.1°
MacKinlay’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in MacKinlay’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
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Born in United States
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More charts like MacKinlay’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Heather MorrisAmerican actress, dancer, singer, and model
- Matthew LillardAmerican actor (born 1970)
- Brandon LeeAmerican actor
Born in Rabbit years
- Harold C. SchonbergAmerican writer
- Paul HorganAmerican historian
- Philip LevineAmerican poet
Also born on February 4
- Isabel Martínez de Perón1931
- Jenny Shipley1952
- Hunter Biden1970
- Zach King1990
- Gavin DeGraw1977
- Jeff Dye1983
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Carver WillisAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Nick BosaAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Colton McKivitzAmerican football offensive tackle
Other Aquarius Rabbit charts
- Bob IgerAmerican businessman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company
- Ester ExpósitoSpanish actress
- Henry GoldingBritish actor
- Liu WenChinese model
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Robert Downey Jr.American actor
- Frank ZappaAmerican musician
- Jack KerouacAmerican writer
- Ryan ReynoldsCanadian-American actor and entrepreneur
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Veronica CartwrightBritish actress
- RufusFrench actor and comedian
- Paul HenreidAustrian-American actor and film director
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
MacKinlay’s cards
Computed from February 4, 1904. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
11 · Visionary♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
MacKinlay’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1226282 (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 Florida Memory, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same MacKinlay Kantor at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by MacKinlay Kantor.
Quick answers about MacKinlay Kantor’s chart
- What zodiac sign was MacKinlay Kantor?
- MacKinlay Kantor was an Aquarius: born February 4, 1904, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was MacKinlay Kantor's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 4, 1904 birth.
- What was MacKinlay Kantor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was MacKinlay Kantor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was MacKinlay Kantor's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was MacKinlay Kantor's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
