Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie (born February 20, 1941, Stoneham, United States), aged 85, is an American musician. Sainte-Marie's honours include Academy Award for Best Original Song, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and BAFTA Award for Best Original Song.
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Buffy
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Buffy in the U.S.?
—
outside the current top list
~3,312
Americans share it since 1951
1972
its peak year
Buffy is in US records from 1951, but 1941 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1972.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Buffy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Buffy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 Buffy apart
Buffy Sainte-Marie took the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1983, at 42.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The working life starts in 1963, at 22.
Buffy Sainte-Marie was married Jack Nitzsche and Sheldon Peters Wolfchild and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Buffy Sainte-Marie: American people who self-identify as being of First Nations descent, Activists from Massachusetts and Adult adoptees.
Kurt Cobain (1967) and Mitch McConnell (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Instruments
- guitar, mouth bow and voice
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Original Song (1983), Polaris Music Prize (2015) and Canada's Walk of Fame (1999)
- Nominated for
- Juno Award for Music DVD of the Year and Juno Award for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year
- Working from
- 1963
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 34
What the chart says
Buffy, according to the stars
Core essence
Buffy feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Buffy is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Buffy wants to be loved
Buffy wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Buffy be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Buffy creates
How Buffy makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Buffy creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Buffy 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Buffy 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 Buffy leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Buffy does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Buffy's birth date. Working below.
Where Buffy sits
Six lines
Buffy’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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Buffy Sainte-Marie
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Stoneham 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 Stoneham that night
Computed for 42.48°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Stoneham was Castor, in Gemini, 79.2° up.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Stoneham at all: they sit past the −47.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 25% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
How unusual Buffy's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Pluto
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 →Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
Buffy Sainte-Marie's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 20, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Buffy Sainte-Marie was born on February 20, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Buffy Sainte-Marie's birth date, February 20, 1941, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Buffy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Buffy Sainte-Marie's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Buffy Sainte-Marie combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Buffy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableSunsextileMars0.0° to 0.3° orb
Buffy’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.4° to 0.5° orb
Buffy’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.3° to 3.0° orb
Buffy’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.7° to 3.3° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.5° to 5.7° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune4.5° to 5.2° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.9° to 7.0° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 3.2° to 15.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Buffy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 26°15′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 25°44′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 20°11′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 11°07′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 28°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.3°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.2°
Buffy’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Buffy’s chart
Yod onto Pluto · Sun, Mars, PlutoTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury quintile Mars 1.3°
More people like Buffy
Other actors
- Marsha Mason1942
- Dionne Warwick1940
- Ann-Margret1941
- James Brolin1940
- Art Garfunkel1941
- Plácido Domingo1941
Born in United States
- Karl Barry SharplessAmerican chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941)
- Scott GlennAmerican actor
- John C. MaloneAmerican billionaire businessman, landowner and philanthropist
- Thomas PowersAmerican reporter
- Michael Stuart BrownAmerican geneticist and Nobel laureate
- Stephen AlbertAmerican composer
More charts like Buffy’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Agnes S. O'RearAmerican poet laureate from Kentucky
- Matthew VaughnBritish film producer, director and screenwriter
- William GibsonAmerican-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
Born in Snake years
- Mary SchmichAmerican columnist
- Anne TylerAmerican novelist
- Dean AchesonAmerican statesman and lawyer
Also born on February 20
- Kurt Cobain1967
- Mitch McConnell1942
- Cindy Crawford1966
- Trevor Noah1984
- Hubert de Givenchy1927
- Shepherd Bushiri1983
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Frankie DettoriItalian jockey (1970-)
- Ryan MooreBritish jockey
- John GosdenBritish horse trainer
Other Pisces Snake charts
- Hiroshi Mikitanifounder of Rakuten
- Sulaiman Al-Habibbusinessperson
- Yasumitsu ShigetaJapanese businessman
- Dan FriedkinAmerican businessman
Other Steadfast Storytellers
- Kagemasa KozukiJapanese industrialist
- Seo Jung-jinSouth Korean entrepreneur
- Dmitry Mazepinbusinessman
- Nobutada SajiJapanese businessman
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Kaley CuocoAmerican actress and producer
- Enzo FerrariItalian racing driver and entrepreneur
- Nicholas HoultEnglish actor
From the journal: Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why · Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say
Buffy’s cards
Computed from February 20, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Buffy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q467027 (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.
Portrait by sidrguelph from Guelph, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Buffy Sainte-Marie at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Quick answers about Buffy Sainte-Marie’s chart
- How old is Buffy Sainte-Marie?
- Buffy Sainte-Marie is 85 years old, born February 20, 1941 in Stoneham, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Buffy Sainte-Marie?
- Buffy Sainte-Marie is a Pisces: born February 20, 1941, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Buffy Sainte-Marie's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 20, 1941 birth.
- What is Buffy Sainte-Marie's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Buffy Sainte-Marie's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Buffy Sainte-Marie's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Buffy Sainte-Marie's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
