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Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson (born October 17, 1947, Chicago, United States), aged 79, is an American writer and academic (born 1947). Jefferson is best known for On Michael Jackson, Constructing a Nervous System and Negroland: A Memoir. Jefferson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, Carnegie Medal and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Margo Jefferson’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Margo Jefferson’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Diplomat

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Margo in the U.S.?

#559

US rank in 2025

~27,242

Americans share it since 1905

1954

its peak year

In 1947, 595 American girls were registered Margo — 322nd on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Margo’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

5

Soul Urge · freedom

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on M (4) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Margo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

Amber · Blush · Flame orange

The record

What sets Margo apart

Eminem (1972) and Arthur Miller (1915) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Margo, according to the stars

Core essence

Margo makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Margo 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.

How Margo wants to be loved

Margo wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Margo even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Margo creates

How Margo makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Margo creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Margo is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Margo is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Margo fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Margo's birth date. Working below.

Where Margo sits

Six lines

Margo’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Margo

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Margo

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Margo

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Margo

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Margo

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Margo

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Margo Jefferson

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

Margo’s birth-night reference starScheatdeep red · PegasusScheat, in Pegasus. A deep red star, 75.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Scheat →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 25.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Chicago that night

Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.8° above the horizon in Pegasus.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.

Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 16% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.

How unusual Margo's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · No Earth planets

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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Margo Jefferson in 15 seconds

Libra Sun

Beauty matters. So does balance.

Margo Jefferson's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 17, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

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Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Margo Jefferson was born on October 17, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Margo Jefferson's birth date, October 17, 1947, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Margo’s chart

Margo’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.7° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.6° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.7° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.9° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.2° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 3.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.7° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 4.1° orbSun in Libra · 23°31′☉23°Moon in Sagittarius · 5°51′☽5°Mercury in Scorpio · 17°59′☿17°Venus in Scorpio · 5°12′♀5°Mars in Leo · 9°21′♂9°Jupiter in Scorpio · 28°42′♃28°Saturn in Leo · 20°39′♄20°Uranus in Gemini · 26°05′ · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Libra · 11°02′♆11°Pluto in Leo · 14°45′♇14°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableMarssextileNeptune1.4° to 1.9° orb

    Margo’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSuntrineUranus2.1° to 3.1° orb

    Margo’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn2.3° to 3.0° orb

    Margo’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.4° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto2.9° to 3.6° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars3.8° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto5.1° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.9° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.9° to 13.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Margo’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 11°05′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 3°58′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 3°24′ (moves 0.48° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 4°05′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 29°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.1°
  • Ceres opposition Venus 1.2°
  • Chiron square Mars 1.7°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.8°

Margo’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Margo’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.

  • Mars semi-square Uranus 1.7°

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Margo’s cards

Computed from October 17, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Margo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6760628 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Margo Jefferson at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Margo Jefferson.

Quick answers about Margo Jefferson’s chart

How old is Margo Jefferson?
Margo Jefferson is 79 years old, born October 17, 1947 in Chicago, United States.
What zodiac sign is Margo Jefferson?
Margo Jefferson is a Libra: born October 17, 1947, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Margo Jefferson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 17, 1947 birth.
What is Margo Jefferson's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Margo Jefferson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Margo Jefferson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Margo Jefferson's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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