Susan Sheehan
Susan Sheehan (born August 24, 1937, Vienna, Austria; died 2026), was an American journalist. Sheehan's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Guggenheim Fellowship and The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism.
Susan Sheehan’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Susan
Susan Sheehan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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 SSA recorded 2,641 American girls and 10 boys named Susan in 1937: 97th among girls and 2,461st among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Susan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
11
Personality · perceptive
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
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Lilac · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1937, 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 Susan apart
The The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism came in 1976, when Susan Sheehan was 39.
The schooling ran through Hunter College High School and Wellesley College.
Wikipedia files Susan Sheehan under Hunter College High School alumni, Writers from Vienna and Wellesley College alumni.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899) and Paulo Coelho (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Hunter College High School and Wellesley College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1983) and The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism (1976)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
What the chart says
Susan, according to the stars
Core essence
Susan notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Susan is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Susan creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Susan 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Susan is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Susan has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Susan Sheehan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vienna 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 Vienna that night
Computed for 48.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Vienna was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 84.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
From 48.2°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Vienna at all: they sit past the −41.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon up and 91% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Vienna, Austria
The death is recorded at Washington, D.C., District of Columbia in 2026.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Susan Sheehan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Susan's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine · 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 →Susan Sheehan at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Susan Sheehan's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 24, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Susan Sheehan was born on August 24, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Susan Sheehan's birth date, August 24, 1937, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Susan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Susan Sheehan's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Susan Sheehan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Susan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Pisces or Aries 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
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Susan’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.7° to 2.3° orb
Susan’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineSaturn3.3° to 3.9° orb
Susan’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.6° to 4.8° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.3° to 7.4° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn6.4° to 7.1° orb
stableSunsquareMars6.5° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Susan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 29°49′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 21°23′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 17°38′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 20°34′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 6°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Neptune 0.4°
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.5°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.2°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.6°
Susan’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Susan’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, 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.
Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
More people like Susan
Other journalists
- J. Anthony Lukas1933
- Loren Jenkins1938
- Walter Pincus1932
- Lewis M. Simons1939
- Edwin A. Roberts Jr.1932
- Lucy Morgan1940
Born in Austria
- Max PerutzAustrian-born British molecular biologist
- Peter HandkeAustrian writer, playwright and film director (born 1942)
- Konrad LorenzAustrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
- Klaus Maria BrandauerAustrian actor and director
- Richard KuhnAustrian-German biochemist
- Anton ZeilingerAustrian quantum physicist (born 1945)
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- Deejay DallasAmerican football running back
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Born in Ox years
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- Paul KarrerSwiss chemist
Also born on August 24
- Jorge Luis Borges1899
- Paulo Coelho1947
- Rupert Grint1988
- Dave Chappelle1973
- Karoline Leavitt1997
- Funke Akindele-Bello1977
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Harrison SalisburyAmerican journalist
- Michael ColgrassCanadian musician and composer
- Allan TemkoAmerican academic
Other Virgo Ox charts
- James MarsdenAmerican actor
- NasAmerican rapper
- TwiggyBritish model, actress and singer
- Rose McGowanAmerican actress, director and activist
Other Tidal Seekers
- Melanie PerkinsAustralian technology entrepreneur
- Krit RatanarakThai businessman
- Woo Kwong Ching PeterHong Kong politician and businessman; Former chairman; Founding patron, Wheelock; Project WeCan
- Chung Yong-jinSouth Korean entrepreneur
Famous people with Life Path 7
- CM PunkAmerican professional wrestler, actor, and retired mixed martial artist
- Fran DrescherAmerican actress
- J. ColeAmerican rapper and record producer
From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Susan’s cards
Computed from August 24, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Susan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7648377 (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 Susan Sheehan at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Susan Sheehan.
Quick answers about Susan Sheehan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Susan Sheehan?
- Susan Sheehan was a Virgo: born August 24, 1937, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Susan Sheehan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 24, 1937 birth.
- What was Susan Sheehan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Susan Sheehan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Susan Sheehan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Susan Sheehan's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
