Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters (born September 25, 1929, Boston, United States; died 2022), was an American broadcast journalist.
Barbara Walters’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Snake, with 
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Barbara Walters’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Barbara in the U.S.?
#968
US rank in 2025
~1,440,831
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Barbara’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Blush · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Barbara apart
Will Smith (1968) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Barbara, according to the stars
Core essence
Barbara makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Barbara is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Barbara creates
How Barbara makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Barbara 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: Barbara is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Barbara is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Barbara leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Barbara fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Barbara's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Barbara sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Barbara Walters at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Barbara Walters's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 25, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Barbara Walters was born on September 25, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Barbara Walters's birth date, September 25, 1929, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Barbara’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Barbara Walters' date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Barbara Walters combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Barbara’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Barbara Walters, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.3° to 1.0° orb
Barbara’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.1° to 1.2° orb
Barbara’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.5° to 2.1° orb
Barbara’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.7° to 2.9° orb
Barbara’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquarePluto2.9° to 3.5° orb
Barbara’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
Barbara’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineSaturn4.9° to 6.1° orb
Barbara’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineJupiter6.1° to 6.8° orb
Barbara’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Barbara’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 13°47′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Barbara building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresGemini 17°33′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Barbara feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosScorpio 6°46′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Barbara is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 10°31′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Barbara feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 14°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Barbara is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.8°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.3°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Barbara’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Barbara is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Barbara’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.6°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Barbara Walters, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on September 25
- Will Smith1968
- Catherine Zeta-Jones1969
- Michael Douglas1944
- Ranbir Kapoor1982
- Rosalía1992
- Donald Glover1983
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Grigori PerelmanRussian mathematician (born 1966)
- Enrico BombieriItalian mathematician (1940-)
- Elon LindenstraussIsraeli mathematician
Other Libra Snake charts
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- Eugene KasperskyRussian specialist in the information security field
- Mahatma GandhiIndian independence activist
- Alfred NobelSwedish chemist and inventor
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Barbara’s cards
Every card is computed from September 25, 1929, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Barbara Walters, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Barbara’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q231417, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barbara Walters at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Barbara Walters’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Barbara Walters?
- Barbara Walters was a Libra: born September 25, 1929, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake.
- What was Barbara Walters's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 25, 1929 birth.
- What time was Barbara Walters born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Barbara Walters's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the September 25, 1929 birth date.
- What was Barbara Walters's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 25, 1929 birth date.
- Where was Barbara Walters's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Barbara Walters's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
