Margaret Wilson
Margaret Wilson (born January 16, 1882, Traer, United States; died 1973), was an American novelist. Wilson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.
Margaret Wilson’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Margaret
Margaret Wilson’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, 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
Margaret ranked 6th among girls and 806th among boys in 1882, the year of this birth, with 1,821 American girls and 7 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Margaret’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The record
What sets Margaret apart
Margaret Wilson took the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1924, at 42.
University of Chicago shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Margaret Wilson under American Presbyterian missionaries, Presbyterian missionaries in India and Female Christian missionaries.
Jennie (1996) and Aaliyah (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Chicago
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1924)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
What the chart says
Margaret, according to the stars
Core essence
Margaret is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Margaret is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Margaret is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Margaret needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Margaret wants to be loved
Margaret wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Margaret you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Margaret is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Wilson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Traer 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 Traer that night
Computed for 42.19°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Capella stood nearest the zenith over Traer at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.7° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Traer at all: they sit past the −47.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 9% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Traer, United States
The death is recorded at Droitwich Spa in 1973.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Margaret Wilson: 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
73 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Taurus · Grand trine · 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.
Score your own chart →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Margaret Wilson's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 16, 1882, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakePrivate by design.
Margaret Wilson was born on January 16, 1882, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Margaret Wilson's birth date, January 16, 1882, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Margaret’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Margaret Wilson's date-only chart is Venus trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Margaret Wilson combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Margaret’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Sagittarius 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
stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Margaret’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSuntrinePluto0.4° to 1.4° orb
Margaret’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineJupiter1.2° to 2.4° orb
Margaret’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.8° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.5° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.6° to 4.9° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.5° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto4.7° to 6.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.1° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 5.4° to 19.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Margaret’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 17°39′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 29°01′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 4°10′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 24°21′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 23°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Venus 0.4°
- Chiron trine Uranus 0.7°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.1°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.4°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.6°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 2.4°
Margaret’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Margaret’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
Grand trine · Venus, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Venus, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Sun quincunx Mars 2.3°
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Margaret’s cards
Computed from January 16, 1882. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Margaret’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6760032 (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 Unknown; published in The Indianapolis Star, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Margaret Wilson 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 Wilson.
Quick answers about Margaret Wilson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Margaret Wilson?
- Margaret Wilson was a Capricorn: born January 16, 1882, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Margaret Wilson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 16, 1882 birth.
- What was Margaret Wilson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Margaret Wilson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Margaret Wilson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Margaret Wilson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
