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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Horse, with 
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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
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Mary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mary sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Mary McGrory, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 12° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Mary’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionUranus2.6° to 3.6° orb
Mary’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarssquareNeptune3.9° to 4.5° orb
Mary’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileMars4.6° to 4.9° orb
Mary’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMarstrineJupiter4.6° to 5.1° orb
Mary’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus6.0° to 6.2° orb
Mary’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Mary may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 25°58′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Mary is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLeo 1°03′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Mary loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 24°29′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Mary feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Mary that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Mary’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Mary is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Mary’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 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 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 Neptune 0.6°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mary McGrory, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Mary’s cards
Every card is computed from August 22, 1918, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Mary McGrory, 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
Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2445212, 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 Bernie Boston/Washington Star, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mary McGrory 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
- 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 time was Mary McGrory 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 Mary McGrory's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the August 22, 1918 birth date.
- What was Mary McGrory's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 22, 1918 birth date.
- 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.
