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, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Marquis
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
Marquis is in US records from 1880, but 1903 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1990.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Marquis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on S (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Marquis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1903, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Marquis apart
Marquis Childs took the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1970, at 67.
Training came by way of University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The grave is at Clinton.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Marquis Childs: Writers from Clinton, Iowa, St. Louis Post-Dispatch people and Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winners.
Nat King Cole (1919) and Kurt Russell (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1970)
- Buried at
- Clinton
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
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. Working below.
Where Marquis sits
Six lines
Marquis’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Marquis Childs
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Clinton 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 Clinton that night
Computed for 41.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Clinton at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 6.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 41.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 77% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Clinton, United States
The death is recorded at San Francisco, California in 1990.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Marquis Childs: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Marquis's chart is
Chart pattern score
61 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Pisces · T-square onto Sun · No Earth 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 →Marquis Childs at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels 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.
What Pisces means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Marquis Childs was born on March 17, 1903, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Marquis Childs's birth date, March 17, 1903, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Marquis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Marquis Childs' date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Marquis Childs 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.
Marquis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Scorpio 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
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
stableVenussextilePluto3.4° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.4° to 5.4° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.0° to 5.3° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.2° to 5.6° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.4° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.9° to 6.2° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto7.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 21°36′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 15°22′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 22°05′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 0°22′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 14°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Venus 0.1°
- Eros trine Venus 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 2.3°
Marquis’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Marquis’s chart
Stellium 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 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Marquis
Other writers
- Arthur Walworth1903
- Virginius Dabney1901
- Harry Martinson1904
- Bruce Catton1899
- Phyllis McGinley1905
- Alva Myrdal1902
Born in United States
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- Roy AcuffAmerican country music singer and fiddler
- Charles LindberghAmerican aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
- George Davis SnellAmerican geneticist
- Ray KrocAmerican businessman
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Fellow Pisces suns
- Isiah PachecoAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Kei'Trel ClarkAmerican football player
- Khalil MackAmerican football player (born 1991)
Born in Rabbit years
- Wayne PetersonAmerican composer
- Olesya ShmagunRussian investigative journalist
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Also born on March 17
- Nat King Cole1919
- Kurt Russell1951
- Hozier1990
- Billy Corgan1967
- Rob Kardashian1987
- Coco Austin1979
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Harvey WeinsteinAmerican film producer and sex offender (born 1952)
- Jordyn WieberAmerican artistic gymnast
- Samira WileyAmerican actor and model
Other Pisces Rabbit charts
- Corey KispertAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Desi PerkinsAmerican blogger
- Elena BaturinaRussian businesswoman
- Albert EinsteinGerman-born theoretical physicist
Other Evergreen Healers
- Jalen JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born December 2001)
- Drake PowellAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
- De'Anthony MeltonAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Matisse ThybulleAustralian-American basketball player
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Braunwyn Windham-BurkeAmerican restaurateur, philanthropist, author, actress, television personality, activist, editor-in-chief
- Mike WhiteAmerican writer, actor and director
- Jill ZarinAmerican socialite and television personality (born 1963)
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Marquis’s cards
Computed from March 17, 1903. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Marquis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5607823 (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 Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Marquis Childs at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marquis Childs.
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.
- 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 was Marquis Childs's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Marquis Childs's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
