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Margaret Atwood’s birth chart

PoetBorn November 18, 1939, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Intense, private and loyal.

  • SunScorpioThe Detective
  • MoonAquariusThe Cool Head
  • VenusSagittariusThe Adventurer

What her chart says about her

  1. Who she is

    Sun in Scorpio, the Detective

    Intense, private and loyal. Wants the real story, not the polite one, and gives all or nothing. Funnier than people expect, and kinder in private than in public. The wish to shine and the wish to be careful need steady adjusting: she moves forward a step, then checks it.

    The Sun quincunx Saturn (almost exact at 0.3°)

  2. What she needs

    Moon in Aquarius, the Cool Head

    Needs freedom, friendship and room to think. Handles feelings by stepping back and making sense of them. Her moods change without warning, and she wants closeness and room to breathe at the same time.

    The Moon square Uranus (close at 2.9°)

  3. How she loves

    Venus in Sagittarius, the Adventurer

    Loves freedom, laughter and shared adventures. Wants a partner who is also a travel companion. Words with charm in them: she has an ear for a beautiful phrase, and people like listening to her.

    Mercury conjunction Venus (almost exact at 0.5°)

  4. How she thinks

    Mercury in Sagittarius, the Philosopher

    Frank, curious and full of opinions. Thinks in big pictures and loves a debate about what really matters.

  5. What drives her

    Mars in Aquarius, the Rebel

    Driven by ideas and fairness. Fights for change and does things differently. Her drive and her discipline work together easily: she can push hard and keep going.

    Mars sextile Saturn (wide at 3.6°)

  6. The shape of her chart

    The Sun is the hub of her chart: it takes part in seven of its aspects, more than any other body, so her identity touches everything else in it. In her chart, fire signs hold the most planets: instinct and enthusiasm.

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The sky the day she was born

  • The Moon

    Margaret Atwood was born seven days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 47% lit, in Aquarius. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Saturday, 34 days before the December solstice.

  • Saturn return

    For Margaret Atwood, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 1998, at 58: her second Saturn return, after the first in 1969. The third begins in 2027. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Scorpio

You and Margaret Atwood

Would you be friends? Is there a spark? See where your chart meets hers, and the signs you share.

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The chart

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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.

Margaret Atwood’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Also Scorpio Sun, Aquarius MoonAlso born on November 18

Questions about her chart

What is Margaret Atwood’s zodiac sign?

Scorpio. Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939, with the Sun in Scorpio, the Detective. Intense, private and loyal. Wants the real story, not the polite one, and gives all or nothing.

What is Margaret Atwood’s Moon sign?

Aquarius, the Cool Head. Needs freedom, friendship and room to think. Handles feelings by stepping back and making sense of them.

What is Margaret Atwood’s rising sign?

The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on November 18, 1939. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Margaret Atwood’s Venus sign?

Sagittarius, the Adventurer. Loves freedom, laughter and shared adventures. Wants a partner who is also a travel companion.

How does your chart compare with Margaret Atwood’s?

Set your chart beside Margaret Atwood’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.

Sources and credits

Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Margaret Atwood’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Collision Conf, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.

The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.

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