Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale (born August 8, 1884, St. Louis, United States; died 1933), was an American writer and poet. Teasdale's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Sara Teasdale’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Sara
Sara Teasdale’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Sara in the U.S.?
#198
US rank in 2025
~437,441
Americans share it since 1880
1981
its peak year
The SSA recorded 197 American girls named Sara in 1884: 127th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sara’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
5
Soul Urge · freedom
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on S (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sara’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
The record
What sets Sara apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry came in 1918, when Sara Teasdale was 34.
The schooling ran through Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School.
The record gives drug overdose as the cause, and Bellefontaine Cemetery as the resting place.
Sara Teasdale was married Ernst B. Filsinger.
Wikipedia files Sara Teasdale under 1933 suicides, Drug-related suicides in Missouri and Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School alumni.
Roger Federer (1981) and Paul Dirac (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1918)
- Cause of death
- drug overdose
- Buried at
- Bellefontaine Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 42
What the chart says
Sara, according to the stars
Core essence
Sara is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Sara is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Sara is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Sara needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Sara wants to be loved
Sara wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Sara gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Sara creates
How Sara makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Sara creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Sara 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Sara is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Sara leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Sara fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Sara's birth date. Working below.
Where Sara sits
Six lines
Sara’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Sara Teasdale
Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Louis 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 St. Louis that night
Computed for 38.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at St. Louis was Vega, in Lyra, 85.7° up.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
St. Louis sits at 38.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from St. Louis at all: they sit past the −51.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon up and 95% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- St. Louis, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1933.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sara Teasdale: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Sara's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Sara Teasdale's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 8, 1884, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyWit is the tool.
Sara Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Sara Teasdale's birth date, August 8, 1884, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Sara’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sara Teasdale's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Sara Teasdale combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Sara’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Pisces 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
stableMoonoppositionMercury0.1° to 7.4° orb
Sara’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.4° to 1.1° orb
Sara’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.2° to 3.4° orb
Sara’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.7° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.6° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.9° to 5.5° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.0° to 5.4° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.1° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileSaturnorb from 4.4° to 5.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareNeptuneorb from 6.3° to 7.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Sara’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 8°57′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 14°16′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 21°16′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 3°56′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 7°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Saturn 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.6°
- Chiron square Mercury 0.7°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.5°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.7°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.9°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.0°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 2.3°
Sara’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Sara’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°
More people like Sara
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- Edward G. Hill1883
- Frank Luther Mott1886
Born in United States
- Edward G. HillAmerican lawyer and poet from Mississippi
- Fred L. PackerAmerican cartoonist and illustrator
- William Carlos WilliamsAmerican poet
- John Gould FletcherAmerican writer
- Glen Cavenderactor
- Kenneth RobertsAmerican writer
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Born in Monkey years
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- Derik QueenAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
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Also born on August 8
- Roger Federer1981
- Paul Dirac1902
- Ernest Lawrence1901
- Roger Penrose1931
- Shawn Mendes1998
- Alysa Liu2005
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Richard Mofe DamijoNigerian politician and actor
- Jourdan DunnEnglish model and actress
- ShaboozeyAmerican singer
Other Leo Monkey charts
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- Larry EllisonAmerican internet entrepreneur and businessman
- Charli XCXBritish singer
- Eric BanaAustralian actor
Other Gilded Scholars
- William Randolph Hearst Jr.American newspaper editor
- Lanford WilsonAmerican playwright
- John J. PershingUnited States Army general in World War I
- Tony AuthAmerican cartoonist
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Jackie KayScottish poet and novelist
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- Lee PenningtonAmerican Kentucky poet laureate (1919- )
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Sara’s cards
Computed from August 8, 1884. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sara’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q276013 (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 Creator: Gerhard Sisters, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sara Teasdale 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 Sara Teasdale.
Quick answers about Sara Teasdale’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sara Teasdale?
- Sara Teasdale was a Leo: born August 8, 1884, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Sara Teasdale's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 8, 1884 birth.
- What was Sara Teasdale's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Sara Teasdale's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Sara Teasdale's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sara Teasdale's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
