AstroTwinzShirley Jackson is a journalist, novelist, writer (United States).
Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories. Born in San Francisco, California, Jackson attended Syracuse University in New York, where she became involved with the university's literary magazine and met her future husband Stanley Edgar Hyman. After they graduated, the couple moved to New York City and began contributing to The New Yorker, with Jackson as a fiction writer and Hyman as a contributor to "Talk of the Town". The couple settled in North Bennington, Vermont, in 1945, after the birth of their first child, when Hyman joined the faculty of Bennington College.
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| Born | 14 December 1916 |
| Profession | journalist, novelist, writer |
| Nationality | United States |
| Educated at | Syracuse University, University of Rochester, Brighton High School, Burlingame High School |
| Spouse | Stanley Edgar Hyman |
| Awards | Edgar Awards |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Cancer |
| Nakshatra | Ashlesha (Pada 3) |
| Sun Sign | Scorpio |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Scorpio |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 314 writers and poets with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 25 of them (8%) have the Moon in Cancer, like Shirley Jackson, and 13 (4%) share the Ashlesha Nakshatra — the #7 most common Moon Nakshatra among writers and poets, where Shravana leads with 18 (6%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Shirley Jackson was born on 14 December 1916. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Shirley Jackson's Moon sign (Rashi) is Cancer and the Nakshatra is Ashlesha, pada 3, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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