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Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson (born November 26, 1943, Sandpoint, United States), aged 82, is an American novelist and essayist (born 1943). Robinson is best known for Lila, Home and Housekeeping. Robinson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Women's Prize for Fiction and National Humanities Medal.

Marilynne Robinson’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Marilynne Robinson’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

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outside the current top list

~968

Americans share it since 1921

1946

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1943, Marilynne came 1,210th, carried by 45 American girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Marilynne’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

9

Soul Urge · meaning

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Marilynne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus

Gold · Rose-gold · Soft pink

The record

What sets Marilynne apart

Tina Turner (1939) and Elizabeth Blackburn (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Marilynne, according to the stars

Core essence

Marilynne is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Marilynne is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Marilynne feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Marilynne needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Marilynne wants to be loved

Marilynne wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Marilynne gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Marilynne creates

How Marilynne makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Marilynne creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Marilynne is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Marilynne 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. Marilynne scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Marilynne's birth date. Working below.

Where Marilynne sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Marilynne

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Marilynne

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Marilynne

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Marilynne

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

PracticalVisionary
Marilynne

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Marilynne

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Marilynne’s birth-night reference starSchedarwarm orange · CassiopeiaSchedar, in Cassiopeia. A warm orange star, 82° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Schedar →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 44.3° 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 Sandpoint that night

Computed for 48.28°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sandpoint was Schedar, in Cassiopeia, 82.0° up.

Of the 97 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 48.3°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Sandpoint at all: they sit past the −41.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 39° down.

How unusual Marilynne's chart is

Chart pattern score

31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Only two elements · Mars retrograde · A leaning bowl

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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Marilynne Robinson in 15 seconds

Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Marilynne Robinson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 26, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Water Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Marilynne Robinson was born on November 26, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Marilynne Robinson's birth date, November 26, 1943, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Marilynne’s chart

Marilynne’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.1° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 1.1° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.7° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.9° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.2° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.3° orbMercury faces off with Mars · Opposition, 3.4° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.8° orbSun in Sagittarius · 3°39′☉3°Moon in Scorpio · 22°47′☽22°Mercury in Sagittarius · 12°46′☿12°Venus in Libra · 17°20′♀17°Mars in Gemini · 16°11′ · retrograde♂℞16°Jupiter in Leo · 26°35′♃26°Saturn in Gemini · 24°40′ · retrograde♄℞24°Uranus in Gemini · 6°57′ · retrograde♅℞6°Neptune in Libra · 3°47′♆3°Pluto in Leo · 8°41′ · retrograde♇℞8°

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

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb

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

  • stableVenustrineMars0.4° to 1.9° orb

    Marilynne’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb

    Marilynne’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionMars2.5° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSunoppositionUranus2.8° to 3.8° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto3.3° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus4.3° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSuntrinePluto4.5° to 5.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus5.0° to 6.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo 14°41′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 6°60′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 9°41′ (moves 0.66° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 17°55′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 20°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.6°
  • Eros trine Pluto 1.0°
  • Chiron square Mars 1.5°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 1.7°
  • Chiron square Mercury 1.9°
  • Eros opposition Uranus 2.7°

Marilynne’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Marilynne’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.

  • Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.0°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°

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Marilynne’s cards

Computed from November 26, 1943. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Marilynne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q253926 (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 Christian Scott Heinen Bell, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Marilynne Robinson at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marilynne Robinson.

Quick answers about Marilynne Robinson’s chart

How old is Marilynne Robinson?
Marilynne Robinson is 82 years old, born November 26, 1943 in Sandpoint, United States.
What zodiac sign is Marilynne Robinson?
Marilynne Robinson is a Sagittarius: born November 26, 1943, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Marilynne Robinson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 26, 1943 birth.
What is Marilynne Robinson's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Marilynne Robinson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Marilynne Robinson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Marilynne Robinson's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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