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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (born August 8, 1896, Washington, D.C., United States; died 1953), was an American novelist. Rawlings is best remembered for The Yearling. Rawlings's honours include Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, Florida Artists Hall of Fame and Florida Women's Hall of Fame.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

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

#1019

US rank in 2025

~274,611

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

In 1896, 387 American girls were registered Marjorie — 124th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Marjorie’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

5

Soul Urge · freedom

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

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

Marjorie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

22 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Gold · Flame orange

The record

What sets Marjorie apart

Roger Federer (1981) and Paul Dirac (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Marjorie, according to the stars

Core essence

Marjorie is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Marjorie is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Marjorie needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Marjorie needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Marjorie wants to be loved

Marjorie wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Marjorie openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Marjorie creates

How Marjorie makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Marjorie creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Marjorie 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Marjorie is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Marjorie is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Marjorie's birth date. Working below.

Where Marjorie sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Marjorie

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Marjorie

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

PrivateExpressive
Marjorie

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Marjorie

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Marjorie

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Marjorie

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night

Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Vega stood nearest the zenith over Washington at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.3° above the horizon in Lyra.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.

Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Washington on any night.

The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.

How unusual Marjorie's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Mercury · A bowl chart

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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Leo Sun

Pride is the engine.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 8, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Fire Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was born on August 8, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 22

The cathedral builder.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's birth date, August 8, 1896, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Marjorie’s chart

Marjorie’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 0.5° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.5° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 0.6° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.2° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.7° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 3° orbSun in Leo · 16°34′☉16°Moon in Leo · 9°55′☽9°Mercury in Leo · 24°54′☿24°Venus in Leo · 24°54′♀24°Mars in Taurus · 25°27′♂25°Jupiter in Leo · 19°17′♃19°Saturn in Scorpio · 12°53′♄12°Uranus in Scorpio · 20°29′♅20°Neptune in Gemini · 19°46′♆19°Pluto in Gemini · 13°32′♇13°

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Marjorie’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Marjorie’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussquareMars0.2° to 0.8° orb

    Marjorie’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune0.4° to 0.6° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus1.1° to 1.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter2.3° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSunsextilePluto2.6° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSunsextileNeptune2.7° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn3.2° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus3.4° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus3.5° to 5.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareUranus3.8° to 5.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed8 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 22°59′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 6°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 19°27′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 7°57′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 16°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Jupiter 0.2°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.4°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 1.9°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.7°
  • Eros trine Sun 2.9°

Marjorie’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    7 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Marjorie’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, JupiterThree 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, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Mars, Uranus, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Mars, Uranus, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Uranus, JupiterAn 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.

  • Mercury quintile Pluto 0.6°
  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.6°
  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.6°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.7°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.9°

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Marjorie’s cards

Computed from August 8, 1896. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Death

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Marjorie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q465237 (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 Carl van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s chart

What zodiac sign was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings?
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was a Leo: born August 8, 1896, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 8, 1896 birth.
What was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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