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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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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

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

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Margaret sits

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Margaret’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Capricorn Sun

Ambition 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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

Metal Snake

Private by design.

Margaret Wilson was born on January 16, 1882, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 9

Endings come naturally.

Margaret Wilson's birth date, January 16, 1882, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Margaret’s chart

Margaret’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Margaret Wilson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.2° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.9° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.8° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.9° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 2° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.5° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.6° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.3° orbSun in Capricorn · 26°35′26°Moon in Sagittarius · 16°25′16°Mercury in Aquarius · 3°03′Venus in Capricorn · 18°05′18°Mars in Gemini · 28°52′ · retrograde28°Jupiter in Taurus · 16°17′16°Saturn in Taurus · 5°38′Uranus in Virgo · 18°19′ · retrograde18°Neptune in Taurus · 13°47′ · retrograde13°Pluto in Taurus · 27°27′ · retrograde27°

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.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Margaret’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus2.0° to 2.1° orb

    Margaret’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.5° orb

    Margaret’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune3.6° to 4.9° orb

    Margaret’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune4.5° orb

    Margaret’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto4.7° to 6.4° orb

    Margaret’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury6.1° to 6.8° orb

    Margaret’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • 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

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.

  • ChironTaurus 17°39′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Margaret building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • CeresCapricorn 29°01′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Margaret caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ErosSagittarius 4°10′ (moves 0.70° over the day)

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Margaret attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • HygieaLeo 24°21′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Margaret at their best with something to be proud of.

  • Black Moon LilithLeo 23°46′ (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 orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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. 1. Venus7 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. Saturn6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. Mercury5 pts

    disposes Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Margaret is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, the shape it makesGrand 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, the shape it makesGrand 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 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.

  • Mars semi-square Neptune 0.1°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
  • Sun quincunx Mars 2.3°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Margaret Wilson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Margaret’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hermit

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

yin Metal

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

yin Metal

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Wood

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Margaret Wilson, 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 Q6760032, 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.

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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
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 time was Margaret Wilson 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 was Margaret Wilson's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the January 16, 1882 birth date.
What was Margaret Wilson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 16, 1882 birth date.
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.

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