Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera (born January 23, 1933, Washington, D.C., United States; died 2024), was an American actress, dancer and singer. Rivera's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and Kennedy Center Honors.
Chita Rivera’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Chita
Chita Rivera’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
What Chita’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on C (3) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Chita’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
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 1932, 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 Chita apart
The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical came in 1984, when Chita Rivera was 51.
Chita Rivera was 17 when the work began in 1950.
Chita Rivera lies at Saint Anthony's Church Cemetery.
On the family side, Chita Rivera was married Tony Mordente and raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read Dancers from Washington, D.C., Catholics from Washington, D.C. and Special Tony Award recipients.
Hideki Yukawa (1907) and Doutzen Kroes (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009), John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement (2015) and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1984)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
- Working from
- 1950
- Buried at
- Saint Anthony's Church Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 31
What the chart says
Chita, according to the stars
Core essence
Chita is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Chita is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Chita wants to be loved
Chita wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Chita you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Chita creates
How Chita 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. Chita 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: Chita is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Chita is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Chita 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 Chita's birth date. Working below.
Where Chita sits
Six lines
Chita’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Chita Rivera
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Washington was Capella, in Auriga, 82.8° up.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Washington on any night.
Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon down and 5% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Washington, D.C., United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2024.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Chita Rivera: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Chita's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Uranus · Mars retrograde
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.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Chita Rivera's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 23, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Chita Rivera was born on January 23, 1933, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Chita Rivera's birth date, January 23, 1933, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Chita’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Chita Rivera's date-only chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Chita Rivera combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Chita’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° 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
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb
Chita’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.2° to 1.9° orb
Chita’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Chita’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableVenustrineNeptune1.3° to 2.5° orb
stableMarssextilePluto1.9° orb
stableMercurytrineMars2.1° to 3.7° orb
stableUranussquarePluto2.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.6° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus2.7° to 4.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.0° to 3.9° orb
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.2° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 2.1° to 15.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Chita’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 23°37′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 20°24′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 0°41′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 19°15′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 29°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.4°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.6°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.9°
Chita’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Chita’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.4°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.5°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.0°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 2.0°
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on January 23
- Hideki Yukawa1907
- Doutzen Kroes1985
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Chita’s cards
Computed from January 23, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Chita’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q450918 (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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chita Rivera at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 Chita Rivera.
Quick answers about Chita Rivera’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Chita Rivera?
- Chita Rivera was an Aquarius: born January 23, 1933, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Chita Rivera's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 23, 1933 birth.
- What was Chita Rivera's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Chita Rivera's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Chita Rivera's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Chita Rivera's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
