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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Phyllis
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
Of the names registered in 1905, Phyllis came 235th, carried by 183 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Phyllis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
5
Soul Urge · freedom
22
Personality · quietly formidable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 7: voice against analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Phyllis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1905, 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 Phyllis apart
Phyllis McGinley took the Siena Medal in 1956, at 51.
University of Utah and University of Southern California shaped the training.
On the family side, Phyllis McGinley was raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Phyllis McGinley: American humorous poets, Writers from Oregon and People from Ontario, Oregon.
Jair Bolsonaro (1955) and Ronaldinho (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Utah and University of Southern California
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1961), Laetare Medal (1964) and Siena Medal (1956)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
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. Working below.
Where Phyllis sits
Six lines
Phyllis’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 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.
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 Phyllis McGinley
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ontario 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 Ontario that night
Computed for 44.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Ontario at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.0° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Ontario sits at 44.0°N, high enough that Capella never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −46.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Ontario on any night.
Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon up and 98% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Ontario, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1978.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Phyllis McGinley: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Phyllis's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 17° Libra 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
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
stableMarssquareSaturn3.5° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.3° to 5.3° orb
stableSuntrineMars5.9° to 6.7° orb
stableVenustrineUranus6.2° to 6.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter7.4° to 7.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 5°10′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 22°40′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 24°48′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 7°43′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 6°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Phyllis’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Phyllis’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.7°
More people like Phyllis
Other writers
- James Still1906
- Marquis Childs1903
- Severo Ochoa1905
- George Orwell1903
- Agnes de Mille1905
- Arthur Walworth1903
Born in United States
- William S. WhiteAmerican journalist and biographer
- MacKinlay KantorAmerican journalist, novelist and screenwriter
- John PatrickAmerican playwright and screenwriter
- George F. KennanAmerican advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
- Henry FondaAmerican actor
- Dr. SeussAmerican children's author and cartoonist
More charts like Phyllis’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Miles BridgesAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Ariel HukportiGerman basketball player (born 2002)
- Jordan McLaughlinAmerican basketball player
Born in Snake years
- William Standish KnowlesAmerican chemist
- Irving LangmuirAmerican chemist and physicist
- Albert Szent-GyörgyiHungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937
Also born on March 21
- Jair Bolsonaro1955
- Ronaldinho1980
- Rosie O'Donnell1962
- Matthew Broderick1962
- Melissa Gorga1979
- Kevin Federline1978
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Ryan SeacrestAmerican television and radio presenter (born 1974)
- Ramona SingerAmerican socialite and television personality
- Zach ShallcrossAmerican television personality
Other Aries Snake charts
- Piers MorganBritish journalist and television host (born 1965)
- Rob McElhenneyAmerican actor and producer
- Martin LawrenceAmerican actor and comedian (born 1965)
- Aly MichalkaAmerican singer and actress
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Lisa Ann WalterAmerican actress
- Carnie WilsonAmerican singer
- Ryan MooreBritish jockey
- Lance StrollCanadian and Belgian racing driver
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Adrian TchaikovskyBritish fantasy and science fiction author
- Alice Bradley SheldonAmerican science fiction writer
- Frederik PohlAmerican science fiction writer and editor
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Phyllis’s cards
Computed from March 21, 1905. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Phyllis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7188601 (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 Phyllis McGinley at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Phyllis McGinley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Phyllis McGinley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
