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Margaret Clapp

Margaret Clapp (born April 10, 1910, East Orange, United States; died 1974), was an American educator. Clapp's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Margaret Clapp’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Margaret Clapp’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Visionary

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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

Of the names registered in 1910, Margaret came 3rd among girls and 508th among boys, carried by 8,226 American girls and 31 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Margaret’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on M (4) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 7: drive against analysis.

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

7 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia

White · Crimson · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1910, 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 Clapp took the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1948, at 38.

Training came by way of East Orange High School and Wellesley College.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Margaret Clapp: People from East Orange, New Jersey, Women heads of universities and colleges and Presidents of Wellesley College.

Sadio Mané (1992) and Omar Sharif (1932) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
East Orange High School, Wellesley College and Columbia University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1948)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
3

What the chart says

Margaret, according to the stars

Core essence

Margaret 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 Margaret 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 Margaret wants to be loved

Margaret 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 Margaret, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Margaret creates

How Margaret makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Margaret creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Margaret is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Margaret is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Margaret scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Margaret

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Margaret

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

PrivateExpressive
Margaret

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Margaret

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

PracticalVisionary
Margaret

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Margaret

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

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

Margaret’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 88.8° 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, 36.2° 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 East Orange that night

Computed for 40.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at East Orange at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 1.2° of the exact zenith.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 26° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
East Orange, United States

The death is recorded at Tyringham, Berkshire County in 1974.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Margaret Clapp: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Margaret's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Aries · 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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The quick version

Aries Sun

Starts the thing. Then plans it.

Margaret Clapp's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 10, 1910, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Metal Dog

Loyal past the point of sense.

Margaret Clapp was born on April 10, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Margaret Clapp's birth date, April 10, 1910, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Margaret’s chart

Margaret’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 9° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.1° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.3° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.9° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.4° orbSun in Aries · 19°56′☉19°Moon in Taurus · 1°34′☽1°Mercury in Aries · 25°11′☿25°Venus in Pisces · 4°25′♀4°Mars in Gemini · 16°53′♂16°Jupiter in Libra · 8°19′ · retrograde♃℞8°Saturn in Aries · 25°26′♄25°Uranus in Capricorn · 25°04′♅25°Neptune in Cancer · 16°35′♆16°Pluto in Gemini · 25°02′♇25°

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Margaret’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Margaret’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Margaret’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto0.3° to 0.5° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars2.9° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune2.9° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus4.6° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.7° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn5.1° to 5.9° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable3 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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 1°13′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 20°47′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 18°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 2°10′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 2°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Mars 1.4°
  • Eros trine Sun 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.1°
  • Hygiea opposition Venus 2.3°

Margaret’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Margaret’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.0°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°

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Margaret’s cards

Computed from April 10, 1910. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Margaret’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6759272 (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.

The same Margaret Clapp 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 Clapp.

Quick answers about Margaret Clapp’s chart

What zodiac sign was Margaret Clapp?
Margaret Clapp was an Aries: born April 10, 1910, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What was Margaret Clapp's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 10, 1910 birth.
What was Margaret Clapp's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Margaret Clapp's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Margaret Clapp's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Margaret Clapp's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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