Meg Greenfield
Meg Greenfield (born December 27, 1930, Seattle, United States; died 1999), was an American journalist. Greenfield's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award.
Meg Greenfield’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Meg
Meg Greenfield’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Meg in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~5,321
Americans share it since 1941
1959
its peak year
US records hold Meg from 1941 onward, though not for 1930 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1959 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Meg’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
11
Soul Urge · insight
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on M (4) and closes on G (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Meg’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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 Meg apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing came in 1978, when Meg Greenfield was 48.
Meg Greenfield was taught at The Bush School and Smith College.
On Wikipedia the categories read Smith College alumni, Writers from Seattle and Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing winners.
Louis Pasteur (1822) and Salman Khan (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- The Bush School and Smith College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (1978) and IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award (1996)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Meg, according to the stars
Core essence
Meg is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Meg is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Meg wants to be loved
Meg wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Meg even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Meg creates
How Meg makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Meg creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Meg is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Meg is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Meg 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 Meg's birth date. Working below.
Where Meg sits
Six lines
Meg’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Meg Greenfield
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Seattle 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 Seattle that night
Computed for 47.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mirfak stood nearest the zenith over Seattle at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.8° above the horizon in Perseus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 47.6°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 −42.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 51% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Seattle, United States
The death is recorded at Georgetown, Washington, D.C. in 1999.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Meg Greenfield: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Meg's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · T-square onto Uranus · Five planets 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.
Score your own chart →Meg Greenfield at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Meg Greenfield's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 27, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Meg Greenfield was born on December 27, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Meg Greenfield's birth date, December 27, 1930, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Meg’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Meg Greenfield's date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Meg Greenfield combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Meg’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Pisces or Aries 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
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Meg’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.7° to 1.8° orb
Meg’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
Meg’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.4° to 3.9° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.4° to 3.7° orb
stableMarstrineUranus4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.6° to 6.6° orb
stableVenustrinePluto5.6° to 6.1° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto6.8° to 7.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Meg’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 14°22′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 8°36′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 25°09′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 6°37′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 5°14′ (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 sextile Sun 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.4°
- Eros square Venus 0.8°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.9°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.2°
- Chiron square Mars 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.4°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 2.9°
Meg’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Meg’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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 onto Uranus · Jupiter, Saturn, UranusAn 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.
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
More people like Meg
Other journalists
- David S. Broder1929
- Edwin A. Roberts Jr.1932
- John Strohmeyer1924
- Jack Rosenthal1935
- Jim G. Lucas1914
- Nick Kotz1932
Born in United States
- William S. McFeelyAmerican historian
- David LeeAmerican physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Robert RoripaughAmerican poet
- Carmen De LavalladeAmerican dancer
- Paul TaylorAmerican choreographer
- Robert DuvallAmerican actor and director
More charts like Meg’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Gia GiudiceAmerican reality television personality
- Chris HughesEnglish model, television personality and former footballer
- Corey HaimCanadian actor
Born in Horse years
- Bradley BarcolaFrench footballer (born 2002)
- Senne LammensBelgian association football player (born 2002)
- Elye WahiIvorian association football player (born 2003)
Also born on December 27
- Louis Pasteur1822
- Salman Khan1965
- Larisa Latynina1934
- Hayley Williams1988
- Olivia Cooke1993
- Timothée Chalamet1995
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Sincere McCormickAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Steve AvilaAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Deebo SamuelAmerican football player (born 1996)
Other Capricorn Horse charts
- Will RichardAmerican basketball player
- Caleb HoustanAmerican basketball player
- Ryan Dunn (basketball)American basketball player (born 2003)
- Jasmine Borrero TookesAmerican model
Other Gilded Visionarys
- Naomi WattsEnglish actress
- Idris ElbaBritish actor
- Hugh GrantBritish actor
- Ashton KutcherAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Saad LamjarredMoroccan singer and actor
- Kodak BlackAmerican rapper
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Meg’s cards
Computed from December 27, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Meg’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6807984 (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 Meg Greenfield at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Meg Greenfield.
Quick answers about Meg Greenfield’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Meg Greenfield?
- Meg Greenfield was a Capricorn: born December 27, 1930, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Meg Greenfield's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 27, 1930 birth.
- What was Meg Greenfield's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Meg Greenfield's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Meg Greenfield's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Meg Greenfield's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
