Marya Zaturenska
Marya Zaturenska (born September 12, 1902, Kyiv, Ukraine; died 1982), was an Ukrainian-American poet. Zaturenska's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Shelley Memorial Award.
Marya Zaturenska’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Marya
Marya Zaturenska’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Marya in the U.S.?
#7023
US rank in 2025
~2,211
Americans share it since 1909
1971
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Marya falls under that line for 1902. Its peak came in 1971, and 2,211 Americans have carried it since 1909.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Marya’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on M (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Marya’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1902, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Marya apart
The Shelley Memorial Award came in 1935, when Marya Zaturenska was 33.
The schooling ran through University of Wisconsin-Madison and Valparaiso University.
The family line: married Horace Gregory.
On Wikipedia the categories read Valparaiso University alumni, People from Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts and University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies alumni.
Stanisław Lem (1921) and Paul Walker (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Wisconsin-Madison and Valparaiso University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1938) and Shelley Memorial Award (1935)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Marya, according to the stars
Core essence
Marya 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 Marya is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Marya is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Marya needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Marya wants to be loved
Marya 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 Marya openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Marya creates
How Marya makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Marya creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Marya is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Marya is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Marya fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Marya's birth date. Working below.
Where Marya sits
Six lines
Marya’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 Marya Zaturenska
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kyiv 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 Kyiv that night
Computed for 50.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kyiv was Deneb, in Cygnus, 84.0° up.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 50.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −39.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 76% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Kyiv, Ukraine
The death is recorded at Shelburne Falls, Franklin County in 1982.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Marya Zaturenska: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Marya's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Sun
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Marya Zaturenska's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 12, 1902, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Tiger
Water TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Marya Zaturenska was born on September 12, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Marya Zaturenska's birth date, September 12, 1902, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Marya’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Marya Zaturenska's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Marya Zaturenska combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Marya’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Capricorn 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
stableSunsquarePluto0.5° to 1.5° orb
Marya’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareUranus0.8° to 1.8° orb
Marya’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.2° to 3.1° orb
Marya’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionPluto2.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.9° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.1° to 4.6° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileNeptuneorb from 4.0° to 5.2° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileUranusorb from 4.7° to 6.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 6.4° to 18.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Marya’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 8°53′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 0°49′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 22°19′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 5°12′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 24°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.3°
- Eros opposition Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 3.0°
Marya’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Marya’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Uranus, Pluto, SunAn 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.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.2°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 1.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.7°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.9°
More people like Marya
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- Alfred Kastler1902
- Mikhail Sholokhov1905
- Roy Lee Harmon1900
- George Dillon1906
- Eugenio Montale1896
- Albert Camus1913
Born in Ukraine
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- Nathan MilsteinAmerican musician
- Golda MeirPrime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
- Isaac SternAmerican musician
- Selman Abraham WaksmanAmerican scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
- Stanisław LemPolish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor
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- Pat CadiganAmerican science fiction author
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on September 12
- Stanisław Lem1921
- Paul Walker1973
- Jesse Owens1913
- RM1994
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Quinten PostDutch basketball player (born 2000)
- Brandon WilliamsAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Bennedict MathurinCanadian basketball player (born 2002)
Other Virgo Tiger charts
- Nickeil Alexander-WalkerCanadian basketball player (born 1998)
- Quenton JacksonAmerican basketball player
- Davion MitchellAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Daeqwon PlowdenAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
Other Steadfast Healers
- Nikola MoroCroatian association football player
- Brandon MecheleBelgian footballer
- Matheus CunhaBrazilian association football player do brazilian player (born 1999)
- Tsuyoshi WatanabeJapanese association football player
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Nicolás de la CruzUruguayan association football player
- Michel AebischerSwiss association football player
- Edson ÁlvarezMexican association football player
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Marya’s cards
Computed from September 12, 1902. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Marya’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q545261 (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.
Portrait by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Marya Zaturenska at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marya Zaturenska.
Quick answers about Marya Zaturenska’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Marya Zaturenska?
- Marya Zaturenska was a Virgo: born September 12, 1902, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Marya Zaturenska's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 12, 1902 birth.
- What was Marya Zaturenska's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Marya Zaturenska's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Marya Zaturenska's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Marya Zaturenska's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
