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Margaret Coit

Margaret Coit (born May 30, 1919, Norwich, United States; died 2003), was an American historian. Coit's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Margaret Coit’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Margaret Coit’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Storyteller

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

In 1919, 26,238 American girls and 58 boys were registered Margaret — 4th among girls and 872nd among boys on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Margaret’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on M (4) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

1 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta

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 1919, 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

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography came in 1951, when Margaret Coit was 32.

On Wikipedia the categories read People from West Newbury, Massachusetts, American women historians and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners.

Marissa Mayer (1975) and Im Yoon-ah (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1951)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Margaret, according to the stars

Core essence

Margaret is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Margaret needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Margaret wants to be loved

Margaret wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Margaret gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Margaret creates

How Margaret makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Margaret creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Margaret is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Margaret is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Margaret leads without needing to do it alone.

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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Margaret

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Margaret

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

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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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Margaret Coit

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

Margaret’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 86.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 16° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Norwich that night

Computed for 41.55°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Norwich at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.5° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.

Norwich sits at 41.6°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 Norwich at all: they sit past the −48.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Norwich, United States

The death is recorded at Amesbury, Essex County in 2003.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Margaret Coit: 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

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all

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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Gemini Sun

Four conversations, one person.

Margaret Coit's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 30, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Goat

Gentle hands, strong opinions.

Margaret Coit was born on May 30, 1919, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Margaret Coit's birth date, May 30, 1919, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 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 16° to 1° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.2° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.3° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.3° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.9° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.8° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 4.1° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 4.1° orbSun in Gemini · 8°11′☉8°Moon in Gemini · 23°48′☽23°Mercury in Taurus · 24°25′☿24°Venus in Cancer · 20°19′♀20°Mars in Gemini · 3°01′♂3°Jupiter in Cancer · 16°13′♃16°Saturn in Leo · 22°31′♄22°Uranus in Pisces · 1°41′♅1°Neptune in Leo · 7°01′♆7°Pluto in Cancer · 5°27′♇5°

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

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.7° to 1.6° orb

    Margaret’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn1.0° to 2.8° orb

    Margaret’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableMarssquareUranus1.0° to 1.7° orb

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

  • stableMercurysextileVenus3.7° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.7° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune3.7° to 4.3° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto3.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars5.0° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus6.0° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.5° to 15.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 4.3° to 19.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Margaret’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 6°16′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 25°50′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 6°20′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 24°44′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.3°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.7°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 0.7°
  • Chiron square Pluto 0.8°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 1.4°
  • Eros trine Sun 1.8°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.1°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 2.2°

Margaret’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon3 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter, Pluto

Configurations in Margaret’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.

  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
  • Mercury quintile Neptune 0.6°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.8°

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Margaret’s cards

Computed from May 30, 1919. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Storyteller

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Margaret’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6759286 (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 Coit 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 Coit.

Quick answers about Margaret Coit’s chart

What zodiac sign was Margaret Coit?
Margaret Coit was a Gemini: born May 30, 1919, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Margaret Coit's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 30, 1919 birth.
What was Margaret Coit's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Margaret Coit's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Margaret Coit's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Margaret Coit's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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