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Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz (born August 30, 1972, San Diego, United States, 02:53), aged 54, is an American actress and model. Diaz is best known for Charlie's Angels, The Mask and There's Something About Mary. Diaz's honours include MTV Movie Award for Best Performance, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo.

Cameron Diaz’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Cameron Diaz’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Cameron in the U.S.?

#76

US rank in 2025

~344,896

Americans share it since 1882

2000

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1972, Cameron came 324th among boys and 1,340th among girls, carried by 555 American boys and 75 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Cameron’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Cameron’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, 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 Cameron apart

What keeps Cameron Diaz in print: There's Something About Mary, The Mask and Shrek 4-D.

Long Beach Polytechnic High School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1990, at 18.

On the family side, Cameron Diaz was born to Billie Early and Emilio Diaz, married Benji Madden and raised one child.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Cameron Diaz: Models from San Diego, Actresses from San Diego and Long Beach Polytechnic High School alumni.

Ernest Rutherford (1871) and Warren Buffett (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
There's Something About Mary, The Mask and Shrek 4-D
Educated at
Long Beach Polytechnic High School
Awards
MTV Movie Award for Best Performance (1999) and MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (2001)
Nominated for
MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss
Working from
1990
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
108

What the chart says

Cameron, according to the stars

Core essence

Cameron notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Cameron is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Cameron is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Cameron needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Cameron wants to be loved

Cameron wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Cameron gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Cameron creates

How Cameron makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Cameron 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: Cameron is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Cameron is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Cameron channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Cameron's birth date. Working below.

Where Cameron sits

Six lines

Cameron’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Cameron

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Cameron

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Cameron

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Cameron

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Cameron

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Cameron

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Cameron Diaz

Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Diego on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Read from the sky above San Diego at 02:53, Cameron Diaz’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over San Diego that night

Computed for 32.72°N, at the documented birth time.

Mirach stood nearest the zenith over San Diego at the birth hour, 83.4° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Of the 97 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 32.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from San Diego at all: they sit past the −57.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon up and 63% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
San Diego, United States
Lives in
Long Beach · Beverly Hills

Wikidata records Long Beach and Beverly Hills as Cameron Diaz's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Cameron's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Peacemaker 天同, The Debater 巨門 in 未

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

13 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No retrogrades at all · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

Score your own chart →

If you only read one paragraph

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Cameron Diaz's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.

What Virgo means →

Water Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Cameron Diaz was born on August 30, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Cameron Diaz's birth date, August 30, 1972, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Cameron’s chart

Cameron’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.4° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 2.3° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.4° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.7° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.4° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.8° orbSun in Virgo · 7°07′ · house 3☉7°Moon in Taurus · 22°15′ · house 11☽22°Mercury in Leo · 19°58′ · house 2☿19°Venus in Cancer · 21°20′ · house 1♀21°Mars in Virgo · 9°46′ · house 3♂9°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 28°32′ · house 6♃28°Saturn in Gemini · 19°36′ · house 12♄19°Uranus in Libra · 16°11′ · house 4♅16°Neptune in Sagittarius · 2°33′ · house 6♆2°Pluto in Libra · 0°58′ · house 4♇0°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCnc 22°39′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCap 22°39′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAri 10°38′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLib 10°38′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCancer
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MercurysextileSaturnseparating · 0.4° orb

    Cameron’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • MoonsextileVenusseparating · 0.9° orb

    Cameron’s feelings open doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.6° orb

    Cameron’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 2.3° orb

  • JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 2.4° orb

  • SunconjunctionMarsapplying · 2.7° orb

  • SaturntrineUranusseparating · 3.4° orb

  • MercurysextileUranusseparating · 3.8° orb

  • SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 4.6° orb

  • VenussquareUranusseparating · 5.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Cameron’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 16°40′ · House 10

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 29°36′ · House 3

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 1°45′ · House 9

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 16°28′ · House 5

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 20°59′ · House 5

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.5°
  • Eros square Neptune 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.0°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Moon 1.3°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Ascendant 1.7°
  • Chiron sextile Saturn 2.9°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 2.9°

Cameron’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus10 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Moon, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Cameron’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Moon biquintile Uranus 0.1°
  • Moon biquintile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
  • Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.4°
  • Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°

Cameron’s houses

Cameron’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CancerMoon in Taurus, house 11Venusself, body, how you arrive
2LeoSun in Virgo, house 3Mercurymoney, possessions, self-worth
3VirgoMercury in Leo, house 2Sun, Marsmind, siblings, the local world
4LibraVenus in Cancer, house 1Uranus, Plutohome, family, roots
5ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 4emptycreativity, romance, play
6SagittariusJupiter in Sagittarius, house 6Jupiter, Neptunework, habits, health
7CapricornSaturn in Gemini, house 12emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AquariusUranus in Libra, house 4emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 6emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AriesMars in Virgo, house 3emptycareer, reputation, public life
11TaurusVenus in Cancer, house 1Moonfriends, community, the future
12GeminiMercury in Leo, house 2Saturnthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Cameron’s family here

One relative of Cameron Diaz also has a chart on AsterNym.

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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained

Cameron’s cards

Computed from August 30, 1972. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Empress

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Cameron’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44380 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Cameron Diaz at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Cameron Diaz.

Quick answers about Cameron Diaz’s chart

How old is Cameron Diaz?
Cameron Diaz is 54 years old, born August 30, 1972 in San Diego, United States.
What zodiac sign is Cameron Diaz?
Cameron Diaz is a Virgo: born August 30, 1972, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What is Cameron Diaz's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 30, 1972 birth.
What time was Cameron Diaz born?
02:53 local time in San Diego, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Cameron Diaz's rising sign?
Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 02:53 birth time in San Diego, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Cameron Diaz?
Cameron Diaz is 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Cameron Diaz's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Cameron Diaz's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 16°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Cameron Diaz's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 20°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Cameron Diaz's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Moon, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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