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Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell (born July 1, 1876, Davenport, United States; died 1948), was an American writer. Glaspell is best remembered for Alison's House and Trifles. Glaspell's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Iowa Women's Hall of Fame.

Susan Glaspell’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Susan Glaspell’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Diplomat

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Susan in the U.S.?

#1091

US rank in 2025

~1,126,022

Americans share it since 1880

1955

its peak year

The earliest American count for Susan is 1880, 4 years on: 80th, 286 American girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Susan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

1

Soul Urge · independence

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Susan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet

The record

What sets Susan apart

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961) and Pamela Anderson (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Susan, according to the stars

Core essence

Susan feels the room before entering it. The core of Susan is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Susan, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Susan feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Susan needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Susan wants to be loved

Susan 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. Susan gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Susan creates

How Susan makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Susan 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: Susan is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Susan 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Susan does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Susan's birth date. Working below.

Where Susan sits

Six lines

Susan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Susan

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Susan

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

PrivateExpressive
Susan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Susan

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Susan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Susan

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Susan Glaspell

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Davenport 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 Davenport that night

Computed for 41.54°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Davenport at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.6° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.

Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Davenport sits at 41.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 82% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 11° below the horizon.

How unusual Susan's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Uranus · Venus retrograde

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Cancer Sun

Feeds you before you ask.

Susan Glaspell's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 1, 1876, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Fire Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Susan Glaspell was born on July 1, 1876, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Susan Glaspell's birth date, July 1, 1876, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Susan’s chart

Susan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.9° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.5° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.6° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.2° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.8° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.7° orbSun in Cancer · 10°09′☉10°Moon in Scorpio · 16°14′☽16°Mercury in Gemini · 21°41′☿21°Venus in Cancer · 28°53′ · retrograde♀℞28°Mars in Cancer · 23°32′♂23°Jupiter in Scorpio · 22°36′ · retrograde♃℞22°Saturn in Pisces · 7°56′ · retrograde♄℞7°Uranus in Leo · 17°51′♅17°Neptune in Taurus · 4°57′♆4°Pluto in Taurus · 24°07′♇24°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableMarssextilePluto0.3° to 0.9° orb

    Susan’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter0.6° to 1.3° orb

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

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.5° to 1.6° orb

    Susan’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn1.7° to 2.7° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.0° orb

  • stableMercurysextileUranus3.7° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto4.6° to 4.9° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus4.7° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars4.9° to 5.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune5.9° to 6.2° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter6.1° to 6.4° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto6.2° to 6.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water6 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Susan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 29°53′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 0°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 29°08′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 9°12′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 8°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Venus 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.2°
  • Chiron square Venus 1.0°
  • Ceres square Venus 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.0°

Susan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Susan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Cancer · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Pluto, UranusAn 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.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.6°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.9°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 1.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.7°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.9°

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Susan’s cards

Computed from July 1, 1876. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Diplomat

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Susan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q468667 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Susan Glaspell at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Susan Glaspell.

Quick answers about Susan Glaspell’s chart

What zodiac sign was Susan Glaspell?
Susan Glaspell was a Cancer: born July 1, 1876, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What was Susan Glaspell's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 1, 1876 birth.
What was Susan Glaspell's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Susan Glaspell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Susan Glaspell's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Susan Glaspell's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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