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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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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

US Social Security Administration public records

Sara’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Sara sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Sara

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sara

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Sara

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sara

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Sara

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sara

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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If you only read one paragraph

Leo Sun

Loves 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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Wood Monkey

Wit is the tool.

Sara Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Sara Teasdale's birth date, August 8, 1884, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Sara’s chart

Sara’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Sara Teasdale, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.7° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 1.6° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.7° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.8° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 4.4° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.6° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.8° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 5.2° orbSun in Leo · 16°31′16°Moon in Pisces · 8°05′Mercury in Virgo · 9°40′Venus in Cancer · 12°27′12°Mars in Libra · 7°18′Jupiter in Leo · 15°47′15°Saturn in Gemini · 21°20′21°Uranus in Virgo · 25°58′25°Neptune in Taurus · 23°16′23°Pluto in Gemini · 2°05′

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.

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Conjunction
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • 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

    Sara’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus4.6° orb

    Sara’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMarstrinePluto4.9° to 5.5° orb

    Sara’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareMars5.0° to 5.4° orb

    Sara’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableUranustrinePluto6.1° orb

    Sara’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • 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

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.

  • ChironGemini 8°57′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Sara turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • CeresLeo 14°16′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Sara is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ErosPisces 21°16′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Sara is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaPisces 3°56′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Sara needing solitude to reset.

  • Black Moon LilithSagittarius 7°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Sara leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Sara’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. 1. Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. Mercury7 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Sara is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 Sara’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sara Teasdale, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Sara’s cards

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Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

yang Wood

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yang Water

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Metal

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Sara Teasdale, 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

Sara’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q276013, 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.

Portrait by Creator: Gerhard Sisters, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Sara Teasdale at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey.
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 time was Sara Teasdale 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 Sara Teasdale's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the August 8, 1884 birth date.
What was Sara Teasdale's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 8, 1884 birth date.
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.

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