Margaret Edson
Margaret Edson (born July 4, 1961, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 65, is an American playwright. Edson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Margaret Edson’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Ox, with 
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Margaret Edson’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Margaret’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Margaret, according to the stars
Core essence
Margaret feels the room before entering it. The core of Margaret is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Margaret, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Margaret wants to be loved
Margaret wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Margaret is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Margaret creates
How Margaret 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. Margaret 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: Margaret is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Margaret sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Margaret Edson in 15 seconds
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Margaret Edson's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 4, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Margaret Edson was born on July 4, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Margaret Edson's birth date, July 4, 1961, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Margaret’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Margaret Edson's date-only chart is Venus trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune.
- Margaret Edson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Margaret’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Margaret Edson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Margaret’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileMars0.9° to 1.8° orb
Margaret’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.5° to 3.0° orb
Margaret’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
Margaret’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineNeptune3.3° to 4.3° orb
Margaret’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareUranus3.4° to 4.4° orb
Margaret’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
Margaret’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextilePluto3.9° to 4.2° orb
Margaret’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareMars5.8° to 6.2° orb
Margaret’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMercurytrineNeptune6.4° to 6.7° orb
Margaret’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.2° orb
Margaret’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Margaret’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°24′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Margaret absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 11°33′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Margaret is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosScorpio 7°31′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Margaret is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 19°05′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Margaret carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 17°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Margaret is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.1°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.2°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.7°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.9°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Margaret’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Margaret is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Margaret’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Margaret Edson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Margaret
2 other people here were born on July 4, 1961, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Margaret’s cards
Every card is computed from July 4, 1961, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Margaret Edson, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Margaret’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q516100, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same Margaret Edson at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Margaret Edson.
Quick answers about Margaret Edson’s chart
- How old is Margaret Edson?
- Margaret Edson is 65 years old, born July 4, 1961 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Margaret Edson?
- Margaret Edson is a Cancer: born July 4, 1961, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox.
- What is Margaret Edson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 4, 1961 birth.
- What time was Margaret Edson born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Margaret Edson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 4, 1961 birth date.
- What is Margaret Edson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 4, 1961 birth date.
- Where is Margaret Edson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Margaret Edson's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
