Marguerite Higgins
Marguerite Higgins (born September 3, 1920, British Hong Kong, United Kingdom; died 1966), was an American journalist. Higgins's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Order of Diplomatic Service Merit and George Polk Award.
Marguerite Higgins’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Marguerite
Marguerite Higgins’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Marguerite in the U.S.?
#2505
US rank in 2025
~94,123
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
In 1920, 3,055 American girls and 5 boys were registered Marguerite — 93rd among girls and 4,710th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Marguerite’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Marguerite’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1920, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Marguerite apart
The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting came in 1951, when Marguerite Higgins was 31.
Marguerite Higgins was taught at University of California, Berkeley.
The record gives leishmaniasis as the cause, and Arlington National Cemetery as the resting place.
The family line: married William Evens Hall.
On Wikipedia the categories read Deaths from leishmaniasis, American women war correspondents of World War II and Infectious disease deaths in Washington, D.C..
Carl David Anderson (1905) and Charlie Sheen (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1954), George Polk Award (1952) and Order of Diplomatic Service Merit (2010)
- Cause of death
- leishmaniasis
- Buried at
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and Korean
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
Marguerite, according to the stars
Core essence
Marguerite notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Marguerite is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Marguerite wants to be loved
Marguerite wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Marguerite and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Marguerite creates
How Marguerite makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Marguerite builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Marguerite 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Marguerite 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 Marguerite 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 Marguerite's birth date. Working below.
Where Marguerite sits
Six lines
Marguerite’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Marguerite Higgins
Three stars chosen from the real sky above British Hong Kong 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 British Hong Kong that night
Computed for 22.28°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Albireo stood nearest the zenith over British Hong Kong at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.5° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
British Hong Kong sits at 22.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon, 74% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- British Hong Kong, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Washington, D.C., District of Columbia in 1966.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Marguerite Higgins: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Marguerite's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Mars · No Air 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Marguerite Higgins's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 3, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Marguerite Higgins was born on September 3, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Marguerite Higgins's birth date, September 3, 1920, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Marguerite’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Marguerite Higgins' date-only chart is Mercury opposition Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Marguerite Higgins combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Marguerite’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Aries or Taurus 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
stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.3° to 2.3° orb
Marguerite’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextilePluto1.2° to 2.1° orb
Marguerite’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileMars1.5° to 2.1° orb
Marguerite’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.8° to 2.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.3° to 4.0° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter2.4° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.0° to 5.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.7° to 4.5° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.2° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.1° to 6.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.2° to 6.1° orb
stableUranustrinePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Marguerite’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 9°25′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 28°21′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 21°52′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 9°05′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 5°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Pluto 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.8°
- Ceres square Venus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.9°
Marguerite’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Marguerite’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, SaturnThree 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.
T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Uranus, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Uranus, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.2°
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Born in Monkey years
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- Carl David Anderson1905
- Charlie Sheen1965
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
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- Eva Marie SaintAmerican actress (born 1924)
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Other Virgo Monkey charts
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Other Evergreen Healers
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Marguerite’s cards
Computed from September 3, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Marguerite’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q529290 (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 Time Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Marguerite Higgins at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marguerite Higgins.
Quick answers about Marguerite Higgins’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Marguerite Higgins?
- Marguerite Higgins was a Virgo: born September 3, 1920, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Marguerite Higgins's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 3, 1920 birth.
- What was Marguerite Higgins's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Marguerite Higgins's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Marguerite Higgins's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Marguerite Higgins's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
