Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan (born November 10, 1960, Cleveland, United States), aged 65, is an American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner. Jordan is best known for The Art of Her Deal. Jordan's honours include Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and George Polk Award.
Mary Jordan’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Mary
Mary Jordan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Mary in the U.S.?
#125
US rank in 2025
~4,156,654
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1960, Mary came 1st among girls and 605th among boys, carried by 51,472 American girls and 169 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mary’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Mary apart
What keeps Mary Jordan in print: The Art of Her Deal.
The classrooms behind this chart: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Trinity College, Dublin.
The same date carries Neil Gaiman. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- The Art of Her Deal
- Educated at
- Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Trinity College, Dublin and Georgetown University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize (2003), George Polk Award (1998) and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (2003)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Mary, according to the stars
Core essence
Mary does not do surface. The core of Mary is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Mary is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Mary 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 Mary 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 Mary wants to be loved
Mary wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Mary and watch them fall for you again.
How Mary creates
How Mary makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Mary creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Mary is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Mary is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Mary leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Mary does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Mary's birth date. Working below.
Where Mary sits
Six lines
Mary’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Mary Jordan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cleveland 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 Cleveland that night
Computed for 41.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cleveland was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 77.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.5°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 −48.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 55% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.
How unusual Mary's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · No Air 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.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Mary Jordan's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 10, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Mary Jordan was born on November 10, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Mary Jordan's birth date, November 10, 1960, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Mary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mary Jordan's date-only chart is Sun trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mary Jordan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Mary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Leo 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
stableSuntrineMars0.0° to 0.8° orb
Mary’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMoonsquareNeptune0.1° to 6.2° orb
Mary’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineUranus0.7° to 1.9° orb
Mary’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune1.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.1° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.1° to 4.2° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.7° to 7.8° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.3° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Mary’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°25′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 18°39′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 22°35′ (moves 0.95° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 23°28′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Sun 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Eros trine Venus 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 2.8°
Mary’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Mary’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.4°
Born the same day as Mary
Neil Gaiman was born on November 10, 1960 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Cleveland sits at 41.5°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Mary
Other journalists
- Ian Johnson1962
- Jamal Khashoggi1958
- Don Lemon1966
- Kenneth R. Weiss1957
- Tamron Hall1970
- Tina Rosenberg1960
Born in United States
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- Daryl HannahAmerican actress and director (born 1960)
- Sean PennAmerican actor
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- Craig MelloAmerican biologist
More charts like Mary’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Armand DuplantisSwedish-American pole vaulter
- Robert FinkeAmerican swimmer
- Hinata MiyazawaJapanese association football player
Born in Rat years
- Antoine DupontFrench rugby union player
- Damian PenaudFrench rugby union player (1996-)
- Artur BeterbievRussian boxer
Also born on November 10
- Brittany Murphy1977
- João Félix1999
- Ellen Pompeo1969
- Mackenzie Foy2000
- Zoey Deutch1994
- Kiernan Shipka1999
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Ruth NeggaEthiopian-Irish actress
- Tommy Lee JonesAmerican actor and film director (born 1946)
- Leona LewisBritish singer (born 1985)
Other Scorpio Rat charts
- Susan KohnerAmerican actress
- Maryna ViazovskaUkrainian mathematician (born 1984)
- Ragnar GranitFinnish scientist
- George Emil PaladeRomanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate
Other Tidal Scholars
- Megan MullallyAmerican actress
- Jane LynchAmerican actress
- Leah McSweeneyAmerican fashion designer
- Sonja MorganAmerican socialite and television personality (born 1963)
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Carol BurnettAmerican actress, comedian and singer (born 1933)
- Al GreenAmerican singer
- Pete SeegerAmerican folk singer
From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Mary’s cards
Computed from November 10, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6779960 (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.
The same Mary Jordan at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mary Jordan.
Quick answers about Mary Jordan’s chart
- How old is Mary Jordan?
- Mary Jordan is 65 years old, born November 10, 1960 in Cleveland, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mary Jordan?
- Mary Jordan is a Scorpio: born November 10, 1960, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Mary Jordan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 10, 1960 birth.
- What is Mary Jordan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mary Jordan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mary Jordan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mary Jordan's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
