Novelist & poet

Margaret Atwood

Canadian novelist of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace, and a poet since the 1960s. Born in Ottawa and raised partly in the bush of northern Quebec.

Born1939-11-18, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaA Saturday
At birthSun in Scorpio, Moon in Aquarius

Birth Chart

1939-11-18, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · time unknown, noon chart

America/Torontothe zone used then

Ordered-orbit layout: angles come from chart longitudes; orbit radii are fixed by planet order. Moon orbits Earth.

SunMercuryVenusEarthMoonMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto
Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunScorpio25°27′Direct
MoonAquarius22°34′Direct
MercurySagittarius13°57′Retrograde
VenusSagittarius14°25′Direct
MarsAquarius29°23′Direct
JupiterPisces28°56′Retrograde
SaturnAries25°45′Retrograde
UranusTaurus19°43′Retrograde
NeptuneVirgo25°04′Direct
PlutoLeo2°52′Retrograde

This is Margaret Atwood's chart for 1939-11-18, the day they were born. Cast your own birth chart.

Margaret Atwood is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.

Their Astrocartography

Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Margaret Atwood was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.

The birth time is unknown, so this map is cast for noon. The SHAPE of it is right and the whole pattern slides east or west with the real time, so treat the longitudes as approximate.

Sun MCSun ICSun ACSun DCMoon MCMoon ICMoon ACMoon DCMercury MCMercury ICMercury ACMercury DCVenus MCVenus ICVenus ACVenus DCMars MCMars ICMars ACMars DCJupiter MCJupiter ICJupiter ACJupiter DCSaturn MCSaturn ICSaturn ACSaturn DCUranus MCUranus ICUranus ACUranus DCNeptune MCNeptune ICNeptune ACNeptune DCPluto MCPluto ICPluto ACPluto DC
Ring, where you were bornTap a line for what it meansZoom with the buttons · full screen to pinch, drag and rotate

Ten planets on four angles is forty lines, which is more than the interactive tool opens with on purpose. Draw your own map to choose which planets to show.

Charts are computed from real planetary positions (Swiss Ephemeris) for the recorded moment and place. Recorded times can carry small uncertainties; treat house and ascendant placements accordingly.