Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver (born September 10, 1935, Maple Heights, United States; died 2019), was an American poet. Oliver is best remembered for Red Bird and The Night Traveler. Oliver's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Mary Oliver’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Pig, with 
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Mary Oliver’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Mary in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~4,156,654
Americans share it since 1880
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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
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Mary is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Mary needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Mary needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Mary wants to be loved
Mary wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Mary and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Mary creates
How Mary makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Mary creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Mary is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: 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.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Mary Oliver in 15 seconds
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Mary Oliver's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 10, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Mary Oliver was born on September 10, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Mary Oliver's birth date, September 10, 1935, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Mary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mary Oliver's date-only chart is Mars trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Fire.
- Mary Oliver combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Mary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Mary Oliver, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Aquarius 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.
stableMarstrinePluto0.5° to 1.2° orb
Mary’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.7° to 1.4° orb
Mary’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.9° orb
Mary’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.1° to 1.9° orb
Mary’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.1° to 3.1° orb
Mary’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.9° to 4.4° orb
Mary’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
Mary’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn7.0° to 7.6° orb
Mary’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter7.3° to 7.8° orb
Mary’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 2.9° to 17.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 16°13′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Mary turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresVirgo 22°30′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Mary caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 19°19′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Mary is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 12°25′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Mary is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 16°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Mary exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 0.4°
- Chiron square Sun 0.8°
- Eros square Jupiter 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.9°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.2°
- Chiron square Venus 2.9°
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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Mary is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Virgo · Sun, Venus, 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.
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.6°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mary Oliver, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Mary’s cards
Every card is computed from September 10, 1935, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Mary Oliver, 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 Q454836, 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.
The same Mary Oliver 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 Oliver’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mary Oliver?
- Mary Oliver was a Virgo: born September 10, 1935, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Pig.
- What was Mary Oliver's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 10, 1935 birth.
- What time was Mary Oliver 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 Oliver's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the September 10, 1935 birth date.
- What was Mary Oliver's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 10, 1935 birth date.
- Where was Mary Oliver's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mary Oliver's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
