Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff (born October 26, 1961, Adams, United States), aged 65, is an American author. Schiff's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and Newberry Library Award.
Stacy Schiff’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Stacy
Stacy Schiff’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Stacy in the U.S.?
#1665
US rank in 2025
~186,268
Americans share it since 1880
1971
its peak year
In 1961, 1,673 American girls and 325 boys were registered Stacy — 207th among girls and 448th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stacy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Stacy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, 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 Stacy apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography came in 2000, when Stacy Schiff was 39.
Stacy Schiff was taught at Phillips Academy and Williams College.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Adams, Massachusetts, American women journalists and Writers from New York (state).
Dylan McDermott shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Phillips Academy and Williams College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2000), PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography (2011) and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2018)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 16
What the chart says
Stacy, according to the stars
Core essence
Stacy does not do surface. The core of Stacy is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Stacy is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Stacy processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Stacy needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Stacy wants to be loved
Stacy wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Stacy gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Stacy creates
How Stacy makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Stacy creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Stacy is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Stacy is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Stacy 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 Stacy's birth date. Working below.
Where Stacy sits
Six lines
Stacy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Stacy Schiff
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Adams 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 Adams that night
Computed for 42.62°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Adams at 9 p.m. that evening, 73.7° above the horizon in Pegasus.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Adams sits at 42.6°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 Adams at all: they sit past the −47.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 34° below the horizon, Moon up and 88% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Stacy's chart is
Chart pattern score
50 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · 2 planets 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 →Stacy Schiff at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Stacy Schiff's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 26, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Stacy Schiff was born on October 26, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Stacy Schiff's birth date, October 26, 1961, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Stacy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stacy Schiff's date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Stacy Schiff combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Stacy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Gemini 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
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.4° to 1.3° orb
Stacy’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
Stacy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileUranus2.7° to 3.7° orb
Stacy’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 2.3° to 15.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 3.0° to 16.3° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileUranusorb from 4.6° to 5.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Stacy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 2°01′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 23°30′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 29°24′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 16°41′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 29°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.4°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.4°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.0°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.2°
Stacy’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Stacy’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mars, 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.
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.0°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 1.2°
Born the same day as Stacy
Dylan McDermott was born on October 26, 1961 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Adams sits at 42.6°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Stacy
Other writers
- Jennifer Egan1962
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch1960
- Star Jones1962
- Carl Norac1960
- Anna Burns1962
- Angelique Kidjo1960
Born in United States
- Gary ValentineAmerican actor and comedian
- Caroline ManzoAmerican television personality
- Meg RyanAmerican actress (born 1961)
- Billy Ray CyrusAmerican country singer and actor
- Rick OwensAmerican fashion designer
- Tom FordAmerican fashion designer and filmmaker
More charts like Stacy’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Larry FinkAmerican Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
- Lisa SuAmerican business executive and electrical engineer
- Ashley GrahamAmerican model
Born in Ox years
- Kevin McKiddScottish actor
- Tom BerengerAmerican actor (born 1949)
- Donald O'ConnorAmerican dancer, singer, and actor
Also born on October 26
- Hillary Clinton1947
- Evo Morales1959
- Seth MacFarlane1973
- CM Punk1978
- Keith Urban1967
- Drew Gooden1993
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Robert Cecillawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom
- Theodor MommsenGerman classical scholar and historian
- Dan ShechtmanIsraeli scientist
Other Scorpio Ox charts
- Kevin KwanAsian-American novelist
- Rick OwensAmerican fashion designer
- Lynsey AddarioAmerican photojournalist
- Andrew ForrestAustralian mining businessman
Other Tidal Scholars
- Joseph ErlangerAmerican doctor
- Rainer WeissAmerican physicist
- Frances ArnoldNobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)
- Narges MohammadiIranian human rights activist (born 1972)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Malik HarrisonAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Chris OlaveAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Jevon HollandAmerican football safety
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Stacy’s cards
Computed from October 26, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stacy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q465655 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stacy Schiff at Wikipedia, stacyschiff.com and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Stacy Schiff.
Quick answers about Stacy Schiff’s chart
- How old is Stacy Schiff?
- Stacy Schiff is 65 years old, born October 26, 1961 in Adams, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Stacy Schiff?
- Stacy Schiff is a Scorpio: born October 26, 1961, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Stacy Schiff's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 26, 1961 birth.
- What is Stacy Schiff's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Stacy Schiff's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Stacy Schiff's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Stacy Schiff's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
