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Marjorie Liu

Marjorie Liu (born June 16, 1979, Philadelphia, United States), aged 47, is an American writer. Liu is best known for Monstress and NYX. Liu's honours include Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series and Eisner Award for Best Writer.

Marjorie Liu’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Earth Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Marjorie Liu’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 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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

Marjorie ranked 541st in 1979, the year of this birth, with 347 American girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Marjorie’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

6

Soul Urge · being needed

8

Personality · capable, in charge

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

Marjorie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Lilac · Gold

The record

What sets Marjorie apart

Tupac Shakur (1971) and Barbara McClintock (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 two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Marjorie needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Marjorie is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Marjorie needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Marjorie wants to be loved

Marjorie wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Marjorie like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Marjorie creates

How Marjorie 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. Marjorie 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: Marjorie 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Marjorie 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 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Marjorie

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

PracticalVisionary
Marjorie

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Marjorie

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

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

Marjorie’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 81.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 12.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Philadelphia that night

Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Philadelphia at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 8.5° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Philadelphia at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at last quarter, 52% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.

How unusual Marjorie's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Marjorie Liu at a glance

Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Marjorie Liu's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 16, 1979, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Goat

Artist first, everything second.

Marjorie Liu was born on June 16, 1979, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Marjorie Liu's birth date, June 16, 1979, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 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 10° to 24° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.2° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.1° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.6° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.7° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 4° orbSun in Gemini · 24°55′☉24°Moon in Pisces · 17°49′☽17°Mercury in Cancer · 13°51′☿13°Venus in Gemini · 5°58′♀5°Mars in Taurus · 23°14′♂23°Jupiter in Leo · 7°59′♃7°Saturn in Virgo · 8°18′♄8°Uranus in Scorpio · 17°34′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Sagittarius · 18°57′ · retrograde♆℞18°Pluto in Libra · 16°27′ · retrograde♇℞16°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableVenussextileJupiter1.5° to 2.5° orb

    Marjorie’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto1.7° to 3.5° orb

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

  • stableVenussquareSaturn1.8° to 2.9° orb

    Marjorie’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus2.8° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus5.3° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune5.5° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.6° to 13.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 12°12′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 10°42′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 3°24′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 27°53′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 27°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Mercury 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.5°
  • Eros square Venus 2.6°
  • Ceres trine Jupiter 2.7°
  • Hygiea square Sun 3.0°

Marjorie’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto3 pts

    disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Marjorie’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.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.3°
  • Mars biquintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun quintile Saturn 1.4°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 1.4°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.7°
  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.9°

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Marjorie’s cards

Computed from June 16, 1979. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Empress

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Marjorie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6766303 (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 Luigi Novi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marjorie Liu.

Quick answers about Marjorie Liu’s chart

How old is Marjorie Liu?
Marjorie Liu is 47 years old, born June 16, 1979 in Philadelphia, United States.
What zodiac sign is Marjorie Liu?
Marjorie Liu is a Gemini: born June 16, 1979, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Marjorie Liu's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 16, 1979 birth.
What is Marjorie Liu's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Marjorie Liu's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Marjorie Liu's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Marjorie Liu's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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