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Marquis Childs

Marquis Childs (born March 17, 1903, Clinton, United States; died 1990), was an American writer and journalist. Childs's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

Marquis Childs’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Marquis Childs’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 Marquis in the U.S.?

#1672

US rank in 2025

~25,041

Americans share it since 1880

1990

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Marquis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

6 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

North

Season

winter

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink

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What the chart says

Marquis, according to the stars

Core essence

Marquis feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Marquis is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Marquis 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 Marquis 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 Marquis wants to be loved

Marquis wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Marquis creates

How Marquis 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. Marquis 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: Marquis is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Marquis 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Marquis fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Marquis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Marquis sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Marquis

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

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

PrivateExpressive
Marquis

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Marquis

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Marquis

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Marquis Childs at a glance

Pisces Sun

Feels it all, owns none of it.

Marquis Childs's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 17, 1903, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Water Rabbit

Three steps ahead, no fuss.

Marquis Childs was born on March 17, 1903, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 6

Everyone's person. Never off duty.

Marquis Childs's birth date, March 17, 1903, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in Marquis’s chart

Marquis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Marquis Childs, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.4° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.8° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.3° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.8° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.9° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 5.1° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 5.4° orbSun in Pisces · 25°58′25°Moon in Scorpio · 18°33′18°Mercury in Pisces · 4°14′Venus in Aries · 21°44′21°Mars in Libra · 11°40′ · retrograde11°Jupiter in Pisces · 6°03′Saturn in Aquarius · 6°13′Uranus in Sagittarius · 25°33′25°Neptune in Cancer · 0°55′Pluto in Gemini · 17°43′17°

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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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.

  • stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Marquis’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.2° to 2.5° orb

    Marquis’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune2.6° to 4.1° orb

    Marquis’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableVenustrineUranus3.2° to 4.4° orb

    Marquis’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussextilePluto3.4° to 4.6° orb

    Marquis’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune4.4° to 5.4° orb

    Marquis’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune5.0° to 5.3° orb

    Marquis’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn5.2° to 5.6° orb

    Marquis’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.4° orb

    Marquis’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMarstrinePluto5.9° to 6.2° orb

    Marquis’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto7.8° orb

    Marquis’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 1.7° to 13.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

Marquis’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.

  • ChironCapricorn 21°36′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Marquis is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

  • CeresLeo 15°22′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Marquis is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ErosSagittarius 22°05′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Marquis attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • HygieaGemini 0°22′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Marquis needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

  • Black Moon LilithCapricorn 14°49′ (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. Marquis 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 orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron square Venus 0.1°
  • Eros trine Venus 0.3°
  • Ceres sextile Pluto 2.3°

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°).

Marquis’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. Neptune10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. Uranus5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. Jupiter4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Marquis is read as tuned to what is not said.

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 Marquis’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, 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 Sun · Uranus, Neptune, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.2°
  • Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.4°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.7°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.7°
  • Mercury biquintile Mars 1.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 2.0°

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

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Marquis’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Devil

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Healer

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

yin Water

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yin Wood

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Wood

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Marquis Childs, 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

Marquis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5607823, 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 Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Marquis Childs 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.

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Quick answers about Marquis Childs’s chart

What zodiac sign was Marquis Childs?
Marquis Childs was a Pisces: born March 17, 1903, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rabbit.
What was Marquis Childs's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 17, 1903 birth.
What time was Marquis Childs 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 was Marquis Childs's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the March 17, 1903 birth date.
What was Marquis Childs's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 17, 1903 birth date.
Where was Marquis Childs's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Marquis Childs's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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