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Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson (born October 17, 1947, Chicago, United States), aged 78, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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 1880

1954

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Margo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Margo sits

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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 →

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.

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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.

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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Margo’s chart

Margo’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Margo Jefferson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Scorpio or 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.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Margo’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto2.9° to 3.6° orb

    Margo’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb

    Margo’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareMars3.8° to 4.5° orb

    Margo’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto5.1° to 5.7° orb

    Margo’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.9° orb

    Margo’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Margo carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.

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

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Margo is read as someone who shows care by providing.

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

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Margo is read as drawn to people who have built something.

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

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Margo is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Margo is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Margo’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. ♇ 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

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Margo is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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 Margo’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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 Uranus 1.7°

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

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Margo’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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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

No birth time is on public record for Margo Jefferson, 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

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

The same Margo Jefferson 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 Margo Jefferson.

Quick answers about Margo Jefferson’s chart

How old is Margo Jefferson?
Margo Jefferson is 78 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
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 time was Margo Jefferson 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 is Margo Jefferson's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 17, 1947 birth date.
What is Margo Jefferson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 17, 1947 birth date.
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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