Margaret Brundage
Margaret Brundage (born December 9, 1900, Chicago, United States; died 1976), was an American artist. Brundage's honours include Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist.
Margaret Brundage’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Margaret
Margaret Brundage’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Margaret in the U.S.?
#112
US rank in 2025
~1,268,519
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Margaret ranked 4th among girls and 641st among boys in 1900, the year of this birth, with 5,304 American girls and 16 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Margaret’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on T (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Margaret’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · 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 1900, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Margaret apart
Margaret Brundage took the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist in 1945, at 45.
Training came by way of School of the Art Institute of Chicago and McKinley High School.
Margaret Brundage was married Slim Brundage.
Wikipedia's editors put Margaret Brundage under American women illustrators, Pulp fiction artists and Weird Tales.
Grace Hopper (1906) and Simon Helberg (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago and McKinley High School
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist (1945)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Margaret, according to the stars
Core essence
Margaret is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Margaret is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Margaret wants to be loved
Margaret wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Margaret even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Margaret creates
How Margaret makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Margaret creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Margaret is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Margaret is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Margaret channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Margaret's birth date. Working below.
Where Margaret sits
Six lines
Margaret’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Margaret Brundage
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 4.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.9°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 Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 84% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 51° down.
How unusual Margaret's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 1 unaspected planet · 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 →The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Margaret Brundage's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 9, 1900, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Rat
Metal RatSaw the opening before you did.
Margaret Brundage was born on December 9, 1900, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Margaret Brundage's birth date, December 9, 1900, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Margaret’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Margaret Brundage's date-only chart is Sun opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Margaret Brundage combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Margaret’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Cancer or Leo 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
stableSunoppositionPluto0.0° to 1.1° orb
Margaret’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.0° to 1.2° orb
Margaret’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.3° to 4.1° orb
Margaret’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableUranusoppositionPluto3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus6.6° to 6.9° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.1° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleJupiterconjunctionUranusorb from 7.8° to 8.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Margaret’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 26°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 15°58′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Taurus 9°58′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 24°45′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Neptune 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Ceres square Venus 2.7°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 3.0°
Margaret’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Margaret’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Jupiter, UranusThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.5°
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- Simon Helberg1980
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Other Radiant Explorers
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Margaret’s cards
Computed from December 9, 1900. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Margaret’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3290473 (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 Weird Tales, Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Margaret Brundage at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Margaret Brundage.
Quick answers about Margaret Brundage’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Margaret Brundage?
- Margaret Brundage was a Sagittarius: born December 9, 1900, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Margaret Brundage's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 9, 1900 birth.
- What was Margaret Brundage's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Margaret Brundage's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Margaret Brundage's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Margaret Brundage's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
