Margaret Widdemer
Margaret Widdemer (born September 30, 1884, United States; died 1978), was an American poet and novelist. Widdemer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Margaret Widdemer’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Margaret
Margaret Widdemer’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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 1884, 2,142 American girls and 10 boys were registered Margaret — 6th among girls and 645th 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.
2
Expression · connecting people
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Blush · Botanical green
The record
What sets Margaret apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry came in 1919, when Margaret Widdemer was 35.
On Wikipedia the categories read American women children's writers and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.
Monica Bellucci (1964) and Max Verstappen (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1919)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
What the chart says
Margaret, according to the stars
Core essence
Margaret makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Margaret is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Margaret needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Margaret needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Margaret wants to be loved
Margaret wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Margaret openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Margaret creates
How Margaret makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Margaret creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Margaret is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Margaret is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Margaret runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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.
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The sky over United States that night
Computed for 39.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at United States at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 7.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
United States sits at 39.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −50.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from United States on any night.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 84% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 31° down.
How unusual Margaret's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Margaret Widdemer's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 30, 1884, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyWit is the tool.
Margaret Widdemer was born on September 30, 1884, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Margaret Widdemer's birth date, September 30, 1884, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Margaret’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Margaret Widdemer's date-only chart is Venus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Margaret Widdemer combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Margaret’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Aquarius 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
stableVenussquareNeptune0.3° to 1.4° orb
Margaret’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.4° to 1.8° orb
Margaret’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.5° to 2.6° orb
Margaret’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.6° to 3.0° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.6° to 2.8° orb
stableUranustrinePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter4.3° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableSuntrinePluto5.5° to 6.4° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.1° to 6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Margaret’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 9°38′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 8°13′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 1°51′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 25°17′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 13°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.6°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.7°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.3°
Margaret’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.9°
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Margaret’s cards
Computed from September 30, 1884. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Margaret’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6760023 (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 No photographer credited in original source., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Margaret Widdemer 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 Widdemer.
Quick answers about Margaret Widdemer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Margaret Widdemer?
- Margaret Widdemer was a Libra: born September 30, 1884, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Margaret Widdemer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 30, 1884 birth.
- What was Margaret Widdemer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Margaret Widdemer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Margaret Widdemer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Margaret Widdemer's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
