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Moira Magneson

Moira Magneson (born September 29, 1956, Martinez, United States), aged 70, is an American poet. Magneson has served as poet laureate.

Moira Magneson’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Moira Magneson’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Pioneer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#2047

US rank in 2025

~7,941

Americans share it since 1913

1963

its peak year

The SSA recorded 92 American girls named Moira in 1956: 1,072nd for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Moira’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

1

Soul Urge · independence

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on M (4) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

Moira’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Blush · Scarlet

The record

What sets Moira apart

Enrico Fermi (1901) and Michelle Bachelet (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Moira, according to the stars

Core essence

Moira makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Moira is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Moira needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Moira needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Moira wants to be loved

Moira 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 Moira openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Moira creates

How Moira makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Moira creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Moira is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Moira is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Moira slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Moira's birth date. Working below.

Where Moira sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Moira

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Moira

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Moira

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Moira

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

PracticalVisionary
Moira

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Moira

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Computed for 38.02°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Martinez at 9 p.m. that evening: Sadr of Cygnus, within 2.4° of the exact zenith.

Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Martinez sits at 38.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −52.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Martinez on any night.

The Moon, 21% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 25° below the horizon.

How unusual Moira's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Libra · 4 planets at a critical degree · Mars 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.

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Moira Magneson in 15 seconds

Libra Sun

Charming. Still deciding.

Moira Magneson's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 29, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Fire Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Moira Magneson was born on September 29, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Moira Magneson's birth date, September 29, 1956, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Moira’s chart

Moira’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.4° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.5° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 0.7° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.1° orbMoon fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.2° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 3.6° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 6.1° orbSun in Libra · 6°36′☉6°Moon in Leo · 7°20′☽7°Mercury in Libra · 0°05′ · retrograde☿℞0°Venus in Leo · 22°52′♀22°Mars in Pisces · 13°54′ · retrograde♂℞13°Jupiter in Virgo · 17°29′♃17°Saturn in Scorpio · 29°00′♄29°Uranus in Leo · 6°09′♅6°Neptune in Libra · 29°17′♆29°Pluto in Leo · 29°31′♇29°

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°

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Moira’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb

    Moira’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto0.5° orb

    Moira’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn0.6° to 1.6° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.4° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.6° to 7.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.6° to 6.6° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.1° to 7.2° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time

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

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 14.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 6°34′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 15°34′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 21°03′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 20°02′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 3°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Sun 0.0°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.4°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 2.8°

Moira’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Moira’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°

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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?

Moira’s cards

Computed from September 29, 1956. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Pioneer

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Moira’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q141175657 (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 Nbf2926, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Moira Magneson.

Quick answers about Moira Magneson’s chart

How old is Moira Magneson?
Moira Magneson is 70 years old, born September 29, 1956 in Martinez, United States.
What zodiac sign is Moira Magneson?
Moira Magneson is a Libra: born September 29, 1956, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Moira Magneson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 29, 1956 birth.
What is Moira Magneson's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Moira Magneson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Moira Magneson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Moira Magneson's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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