Phyllis McGinley
Phyllis McGinley (born March 21, 1905, Ontario, United States; died 1978), was an American writer and poet. McGinley's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Laetare Medal and Siena Medal.
Phyllis McGinley’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Snake, with 
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Phyllis McGinley’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Phyllis in the U.S.?
#12873
US rank in 2025
~323,367
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Phyllis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Phyllis, according to the stars
Core essence
Phyllis leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Phyllis is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Phyllis cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Phyllis needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Phyllis wants to be loved
Phyllis wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Phyllis is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Phyllis creates
How Phyllis 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. Phyllis 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: Phyllis is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Phyllis 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Phyllis runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Phyllis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Phyllis sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Phyllis McGinley's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 21, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Phyllis McGinley was born on March 21, 1905, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Phyllis McGinley's birth date, March 21, 1905, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Phyllis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Phyllis McGinley's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Phyllis McGinley combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Phyllis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Phyllis McGinley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 17° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.0° to 1.2° orb
Phyllis’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.3° orb
Phyllis’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb
Phyllis’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareUranus3.1° to 4.0° orb
Phyllis’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.5° orb
Phyllis’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsquareNeptune4.3° to 5.3° orb
Phyllis’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineMars5.9° to 6.7° orb
Phyllis’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableVenustrineUranus6.2° to 6.7° orb
Phyllis’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter7.4° to 7.7° orb
Phyllis’s affections and growth act as one.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Phyllis’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 5°10′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Phyllis making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAquarius 22°40′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Phyllis is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosCapricorn 24°48′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Phyllis is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 7°43′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Phyllis carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 6°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Phyllis carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros sextile Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.3°
- Ceres square Mars 1.6°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.2°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.6°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 2.8°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.9°
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°).
Phyllis’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. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Phyllis is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Phyllis’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.
T-square onto Sun · Uranus, Neptune, SunAn 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.
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Phyllis McGinley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Phyllis’s cards
Every card is computed from March 21, 1905, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Phyllis McGinley, 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
Phyllis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7188601, 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 Phyllis McGinley 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 Phyllis McGinley.
Quick answers about Phyllis McGinley’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Phyllis McGinley?
- Phyllis McGinley was an Aries: born March 21, 1905, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Snake.
- What was Phyllis McGinley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 21, 1905 birth.
- What time was Phyllis McGinley 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 Phyllis McGinley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the March 21, 1905 birth date.
- What was Phyllis McGinley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 21, 1905 birth date.
- Where was Phyllis McGinley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Phyllis McGinley's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
