AsterNymAsterNym

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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

How compatible are you with Mary Wells Ashworth?

Your birthday, just below, gives your match percentage with Mary. Under a minute.

Your AsterNym Match

?%Your score is waiting.

Two details and you have your number with Mary. Under a minute, and it is real astrology, not a quiz.

Free · no account · stays on this device. Add a birth time later for the full chart.

Your result includes:

  • · Your compatibility percentage
  • · What attracts you to each other
  • · What you would bring to the match
  • · Where you might clash
  • · Whether you share lucky numbers, colours, stones or seasons

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

US Social Security Administration public records

Mary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Mary sits

Six lines. Tap where you sit on each.

Mary’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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.

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

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. 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

Mary’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Mary Wells Ashworth, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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′Moon in Cancer · 0°31′Mercury in Gemini · 14°51′ · retrograde14°Venus in Cancer · 17°14′17°Mars in Virgo · 29°33′29°Jupiter in Pisces · 20°01′20°Saturn in Aquarius · 9°16′ · retrogradeUranus in Sagittarius · 24°22′ · retrograde24°Neptune in Cancer · 2°23′Pluto in Gemini · 18°52′18°

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.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

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.

  • 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

    Mary’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto3.8° to 4.2° orb

    Mary’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb

    Mary’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.9° to 5.4° orb

    Mary’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarssquareUranus5.1° to 5.3° orb

    Mary’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn5.4° to 5.8° orb

    Mary’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto5.5° orb

    Mary’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSuntrineMars6.2° to 7.0° orb

    Mary’s core identity flows straight into their drive.

  • 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

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.

  • ChironCapricorn 22°19′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Mary is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

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

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Mary is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ErosSagittarius 24°22′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Mary attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

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

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

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Mary needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Mary is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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. 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

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, 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 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.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mary Wells Ashworth, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

More people like Mary

Other historians

Born in United States

More charts like Mary’s

Fellow Gemini suns

All about Gemini

Born in Rabbit years

Year of the Rabbit

Also born on May 28

Fellow Yang Fire day masters

What a Day Master is →

Other Gemini Rabbit charts

Other Radiant Storytellers

The Radiant Storyteller explained →

Famous people with Life Path 1

Life Path numbers explained →

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

Mary’s cards

Every card is computed from May 28, 1903, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

Tap to flip

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Storyteller

Tap to flip

Western zodiac

Gemini

Tap to flip

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Tap to flip

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

Tap to flip

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

yin Water

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yin Fire

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Fire

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Mary Wells Ashworth, 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 Q55876571, 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 Wells Ashworth 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rabbit.
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 time was Mary Wells Ashworth 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 Wells Ashworth's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the May 28, 1903 birth date.
What was Mary Wells Ashworth's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 28, 1903 birth date.
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.

More charts to explore