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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Mary
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.?
#125
US rank in 2025
~4,156,654
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 55,076 American girls and 277 boys named Mary in 1935: 1st among girls and 328th 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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as 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
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 record
What sets Mary apart
Jack Ma (1964) and Colin Firth (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Mary sits
Six lines
Mary’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Oliver
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Maple Heights 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 Maple Heights that night
Computed for 41.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Maple Heights at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.0° above the horizon in Lyra.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Maple Heights sits at 41.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Maple Heights on any night.
The Moon, 95% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
How unusual Mary's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · No Fire planets · Venus retrograde
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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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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Aquarius 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
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
stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.1° to 3.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.9° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn7.0° to 7.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter7.3° to 7.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 16°13′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 22°30′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 19°19′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 12°25′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 16°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Mary’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Mary’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.6°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.4°
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More charts like Mary’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Kevin CarterSouth African photojournalist
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Born in Pig years
- Henry KissingerAmerican politician and diplomat and geopolitical advisor, served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977
- Rahm EmanuelAmerican politician (born 1959)
- Sean DuffyAmerican politician, former sports commentator and reality television personality
Also born on September 10
- Jack Ma1964
- Colin Firth1960
- Karl Lagerfeld1933
- Ryan Phillippe1974
- Sam Kerr1993
- Elsa Schiaparelli1890
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Olivia HoltAmerican actress and singer (born 1997)
- Lukas GageAmerican actor and writer
- Gina GershonAmerican actress
Other Virgo Pig charts
- Austin CorbettAmerican football guard
- Samaje PerineAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Zach SielerAmerican football player (born 1995)
- M. J. StewartAmerican football player (born 1995)
Other Steadfast Storytellers
- Ardie SaveaNew Zealand rugby union player
- Tyson FuryBritish boxer (born 1988)
- William BuickNorwegian, Danish, and British jockey
- Fernando AlonsoSpanish racing driver
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Joy-Anna DuggarAmerican reality television participant and daughter of Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar
- Jinger DuggarAmerican reality television participant and daughter of Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar
- Josh DallasAmerican actor
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Mary’s cards
Computed from September 10, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q454836 (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 Oliver 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 Oliver.
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.
- 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 was Mary Oliver's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Mary Oliver's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
