Mary McGrory
Mary McGrory (born August 22, 1918, Roslindale, United States; died 2004), was an American journalist and columnist. McGrory's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, George Polk Award and Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award.
Mary McGrory’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Mary
Mary McGrory’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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
The SSA recorded 67,365 American girls and 169 boys named Mary in 1918: 1st among girls and 457th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mary’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 7 and 9: analysis against empathy.
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
4 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
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 1918, 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
The George Polk Award came in 1962, when Mary McGrory was 44.
Mary McGrory was taught at Boston Latin Academy.
Mary McGrory was 29 when the work began in 1947.
Wikipedia files Mary McGrory under Members of Richard Nixon's Enemies List, Boston Latin Academy alumni and People from Roslindale.
Ray Bradbury (1920) and Dua Lipa (1995) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Boston Latin Academy
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1975), George Polk Award (1962) and Four Freedoms Award, Freedom of Speech (1995)
- Working from
- 1947
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Mary, according to the stars
Core essence
Mary is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Mary 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.
How Mary wants to be loved
Mary 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 Mary openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Mary creates
How Mary makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Mary creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Mary is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Mary is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Mary runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 McGrory
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Roslindale 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 Roslindale that night
Computed for 42.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Roslindale at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.2° above the horizon in Lyra.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Roslindale sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Roslindale at all: they sit past the −47.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 14° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.
How unusual Mary's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Mary McGrory's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 22, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Mary McGrory was born on August 22, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Mary McGrory's birth date, August 22, 1918, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Mary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mary McGrory's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mary McGrory combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Mary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 12° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableVenussquareMars1.1° to 1.6° orb
Mary’s affections grind against their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.0° to 2.1° orb
Mary’s growth and depths act as one.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune2.3° to 3.5° orb
Mary’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrinePluto2.5° to 3.1° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.6° to 4.9° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter4.6° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus6.0° to 6.2° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.0° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Mary’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 25°58′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 1°03′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 24°29′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.2°
- Eros square Mars 2.4°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.8°
Mary’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Mary’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, Saturn, 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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.8°
More people like Mary
Other writers
- Philip José Farmer1918
- Edwin Morgan1920
- Richard Ellmann1918
- Paul Scott1920
- Benjamin Lawrence Reid1918
- Howard Nemerov1920
Born in United States
- Ben JohnsonAmerican film actor
- Leon KirchnerAmerican composer
- Jerome KarleAmerican physical chemist
- William Morris MeredithAmerican poet
- Edwin O'ConnorAmerican journalist and fiction writer
- Teresa WrightAmerican actress
More charts like Mary’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Susie Evansformer pageant titleholder (born 1993)
- Dustin HoffmanAmerican actor (born 1937)
- Vivica A. FoxAmerican actress
Born in Horse years
- Denzel WashingtonAmerican actor
- James DeanAmerican actor
- Mike TysonAmerican boxer and media personality
Also born on August 22
- Ray Bradbury1920
- Dua Lipa1995
- Tori Amos1963
- Kristen Wiig1973
- Layne Staley1967
- Andrew Wilson1964
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Auston TrustyAmerican soccer player
- Nélson SemedoPortuguese footballer (born 1993)
- Mario PašalićCroatian footballer
Other Leo Horse charts
- Alperen ŞengünTurkish basketball player (born 2002)
- Jamal SheadAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Jabari WalkerAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- LeoAustralian-South Korean singer
Other Gilded Architects
- Marie CuriePolish-born French physicist and chemist
- Margaret ThatcherBritish stateswoman and prime minister
- Kim Jong-unSupreme Leader of North Korea since 2011
- Enrico FermiItalian–American physicist
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Marilyn MansonAmerican musician
- Meghan, Duchess of SussexMember of the British royal family and Duchess of Sussex since 2018
- Adam SandlerAmerican actor and comedian
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Mary’s cards
Computed from August 22, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
4 · Architect☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2445212 (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 Bernie Boston/Washington Star, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mary McGrory at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mary McGrory.
Quick answers about Mary McGrory’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mary McGrory?
- Mary McGrory was a Leo: born August 22, 1918, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Mary McGrory's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 22, 1918 birth.
- What was Mary McGrory's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Mary McGrory's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Mary McGrory's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mary McGrory's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
