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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.How compatible are you with Chita Rivera?
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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.
Chita’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Chita sits
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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.
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Chita Rivera in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Chita Rivera, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
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
Chita’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextilePluto1.9° orb
Chita’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineMars2.1° to 3.7° orb
Chita’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussquarePluto2.4° orb
Chita’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.6° orb
Chita’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareUranus2.7° to 4.2° orb
Chita’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.0° to 3.9° orb
Chita’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 23°37′ (moves 0.01° 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 Chita building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresAquarius 20°24′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Chita is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosSagittarius 0°41′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Chita attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 19°15′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Chita carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 29°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Chita is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Chita’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Chita is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Chita’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.
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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Chita Rivera, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Chita’s cards
Every card is computed from January 23, 1933, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Chita Rivera, 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
Chita’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q450918, 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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chita Rivera at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Monkey.
- 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 time was Chita Rivera 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 Chita Rivera's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the January 23, 1933 birth date.
- What was Chita Rivera's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 23, 1933 birth date.
- 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.
