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Maureen F. McHugh

Maureen F. McHugh (born February 13, 1959, Loveland, United States), aged 67, is an American writer. McHugh is best known for The Lincoln Train, After the Apocalypse and Nekropolis. McHugh's honours include Lambda Literary Award, Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Otherwise Award.

Maureen F. McHugh’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Maureen F. McHugh’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Maureen in the U.S.?

#4424

US rank in 2025

~144,604

Americans share it since 1896

1957

its peak year

The SSA recorded 4,448 American girls and 13 boys named Maureen in 1959: 106th among girls and 2,374th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Maureen’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

8

Soul Urge · achievement

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Maureen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Violet · Ivory · Gold

The record

What sets Maureen apart

William Shockley (1910) and Robbie Williams (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Maureen, according to the stars

Core essence

Maureen is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Maureen is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Maureen wants to be loved

Maureen wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Maureen, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Maureen creates

How Maureen 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. Maureen 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: Maureen 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Maureen is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Maureen scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Maureen's birth date. Working below.

Where Maureen sits

Six lines

Maureen’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Maureen

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Maureen

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Maureen

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Maureen

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Maureen

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Maureen

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 Maureen F. McHugh

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Loveland 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 Loveland that night

Computed for 39.27°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Loveland at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 5.7° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.

Loveland sits at 39.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −50.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Loveland on any night.

Sun 33° below the horizon, Moon up and 34% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Maureen's chart is

Chart pattern score

38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Pluto · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Maureen F. McHugh at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

Maureen F. McHugh's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 13, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Earth Pig

Trusts easily. Rarely regrets it.

Maureen F. McHugh was born on February 13, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Maureen F. McHugh's birth date, February 13, 1959, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Maureen’s chart

Maureen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.4° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.9° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.6° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.8° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.5° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.8° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.9° orbSun in Aquarius · 24°15′☉24°Moon in Taurus · 1°35′☽1°Mercury in Aquarius · 23°52′☿23°Venus in Pisces · 16°41′♀16°Mars in Gemini · 1°22′♂1°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 0°19′♃0°Saturn in Capricorn · 4°06′♄4°Uranus in Leo · 13°53′ · retrograde♅℞13°Neptune in Scorpio · 6°57′ · retrograde♆℞6°Pluto in Virgo · 3°12′ · retrograde♇℞3°

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

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Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Maureen’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto0.8° to 1.0° orb

    Maureen’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.9° to 1.2° orb

    Maureen’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMarssquarePluto1.6° to 2.1° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.6° to 6.5° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Maureen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 22°46′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 23°23′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 6°43′ (moves 0.82° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 10°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 9°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Neptune 0.2°
  • Ceres square Mercury 0.5°
  • Ceres square Sun 0.9°
  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.1°
  • Chiron conjunction Sun 1.5°
  • Eros trine Saturn 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 3.0°

Maureen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Maureen’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Mars, Jupiter, PlutoAn 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 quintile Uranus 0.5°
  • Venus quintile Saturn 0.6°

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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal

Maureen’s cards

Computed from February 13, 1959. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Maureen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q299933 (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 Catriona Sparks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Maureen F. McHugh at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maureen F. McHugh.

Quick answers about Maureen F. McHugh’s chart

How old is Maureen F. McHugh?
Maureen F. McHugh is 67 years old, born February 13, 1959 in Loveland, United States.
What zodiac sign is Maureen F. McHugh?
Maureen F. McHugh is an Aquarius: born February 13, 1959, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Maureen F. McHugh's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 13, 1959 birth.
What is Maureen F. McHugh's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Maureen F. McHugh's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Maureen F. McHugh's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Maureen F. McHugh's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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