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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Margaret
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
Of the names registered in 1961, Margaret came 40th among girls and 1,293rd among boys, carried by 10,559 American girls and 38 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
9
Soul Urge · meaning
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
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 · 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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, 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 Edson took the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999, at 38.
The classrooms behind this chart: Sidwell Friends School and Georgetown University.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Margaret Edson: Dramatists and playwrights from Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences alumni and Smith College alumni.
The same date carries M. M. Keeravani and Ted Elliott. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Sidwell Friends School, Georgetown University and Smith College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1999)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
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. Working below.
Where Margaret sits
Six lines
Margaret’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Edson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Washington was Izar, in Boötes, 78.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Washington on any night.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon down and 51% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Margaret's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Pisces or Aries 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
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
stableSuntrineNeptune3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableVenussquareUranus3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.9° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.8° to 6.2° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune6.4° to 6.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°24′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 11°33′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 7°31′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 19°05′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 17°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Margaret’s dominant planets
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
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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.4°
Born the same day as Margaret
2 other people here were born on July 4, 1961, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Washington, at 38.9°N, nothing below −51.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Cancer suns
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on July 4
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Franz WrightAmerican poet
- Charlie RossAmerican journalist
- Felix MorleyAmerican journalist and college administrator
Other Cancer Ox charts
- Ted ElliottAmerican screenwriter (born 1961)
- Guillermo OchoaMexican association football player (born 1985)
- Jean-Philippe MatetaFrench footballer (born 1997)
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Other Steadfast Strategists
- Mark McKenzieAmerican soccer player
- Cedric IttenSwiss association football player
- Kevin DansoAustrian association football player (born 1998)
- Krepin DiattaSenegalese association football player
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Roger GuilleminFrench-American neuroscientist
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- Masatoshi KoshibaJapanese physicist and astronomer
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Margaret’s cards
Computed from July 4, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Margaret’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q516100 (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 Edson at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Margaret Edson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Margaret Edson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
