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Mary Wells Ashworth

Mary Wells Ashworth (born May 28, 1903, Plant City, United States; died 1992), was an American historian. Ashworth's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Mary Wells Ashworth’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Mary Wells Ashworth’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Storyteller

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Fire 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

Of the names registered in 1903, Mary came 1st among girls and 230th among boys, carried by 14,275 American girls and 63 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Mary’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

11

Personality · perceptive

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 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink

The record

What sets Mary apart

Kylie Minogue (1968) and Marco Rubio (1971) 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 is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Mary needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Mary wants to be loved

Mary wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Mary gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Mary creates

How Mary makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Mary creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Mary is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Mary channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Mary

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Mary

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Mary

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Mary

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Mary

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Mary

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Mary Wells Ashworth

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Plant City 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 Plant City that night

Computed for 28.02°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Plant City at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.2° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.

From 28.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Acrux cannot be seen from Plant City at all: they sit past the −62.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon up and 7% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Mary's chart is

Chart pattern score

51 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Gemini · T-square onto Jupiter · 1 planet at a critical degree

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Gemini Sun

Fascinating, then gone.

Mary Wells Ashworth's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 28, 1903, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Water Rabbit

Three steps ahead, no fuss.

Mary Wells Ashworth was born on May 28, 1903, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 1

Goes first. Works it out.

Mary Wells Ashworth's birth date, May 28, 1903, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Mary’s chart

Mary’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Mars · Square, 1° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.2° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.9° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.8° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.8° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.1° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.4° orbSun in Gemini · 6°10′☉6°Moon in Cancer · 0°31′☽0°Mercury in Gemini · 14°51′ · retrograde☿℞14°Venus in Cancer · 17°14′♀17°Mars in Virgo · 29°33′♂29°Jupiter in Pisces · 20°01′♃20°Saturn in Aquarius · 9°16′ · retrograde♄℞9°Uranus in Sagittarius · 24°22′ · retrograde♅℞24°Neptune in Cancer · 2°23′♆2°Pluto in Gemini · 18°52′♇18°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupitersquarePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Mary’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter2.3° to 3.3° orb

    Mary’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn2.6° to 3.6° orb

    Mary’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune2.7° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto3.8° to 4.2° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.9° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus5.1° to 5.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn5.4° to 5.8° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto5.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineMars6.2° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable6 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 ℞Capricorn 22°19′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 25°20′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 24°22′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 21°20′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 22°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Uranus 0.0°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.0°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.3°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.3°
  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.8°

Mary’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon4 pts

    in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Neptune

Configurations in Mary’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Uranus, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.1°
  • Venus quintile Mars 0.3°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°

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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign

Mary’s cards

Computed from May 28, 1903. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Storyteller

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q55876571 (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 Wells Ashworth 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 Wells Ashworth.

Quick answers about Mary Wells Ashworth’s chart

What zodiac sign was Mary Wells Ashworth?
Mary Wells Ashworth was a Gemini: born May 28, 1903, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Mary Wells Ashworth's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 28, 1903 birth.
What was Mary Wells Ashworth's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Mary Wells Ashworth's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Mary Wells Ashworth's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Mary Wells Ashworth's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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