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Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan (born September 1, 1957, Havana, Cuba, 13:00), aged 69, is a Cuban-American singer. Best-known releases include Cuts Both Ways, Mi Tierra and Christmas Through Your Eyes. Estefan's honours include Songwriters Hall of Fame, Florida Artists Hall of Fame and Florida Women's Hall of Fame.

Gloria Estefan’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Gloria Estefan’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Explorer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#655

US rank in 2025

~417,018

Americans share it since 1881

1947

its peak year

The SSA recorded 7,123 American girls and 26 boys named Gloria in 1957: 66th among girls and 1,560th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Gloria’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on G (7) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

Gloria’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet

The record

What sets Gloria apart

The MusiCares Person of the Year came in 1994, when Gloria Estefan was 37.

Study took Gloria Estefan to St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church and Our Lady of Lourdes Academy.

Gloria Estefan was 20 when the work began in 1977.

The family line: married Emilio Estefan and raised one child.

Jungkook (1997) and An Yu-jin (2003) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, Our Lady of Lourdes Academy and University of Miami
Instruments
guitar and percussion instrument
Awards
MusiCares Person of the Year (1994), Presidential Medal of Freedom (2015) and Premios Ondas (1995)
Nominated for
Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Song and Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album
Working from
1977
Wikipedia editions
73

What the chart says

Gloria, according to the stars

Core essence

Gloria 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 Gloria is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Gloria is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Gloria needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Gloria wants to be loved

Gloria wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Gloria gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Gloria creates

How Gloria makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Gloria creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Gloria is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Gloria is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Gloria 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 Gloria's birth date. Working below.

Where Gloria sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Gloria

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Gloria

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

PrivateExpressive
Gloria

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Gloria

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

PracticalVisionary
Gloria

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Gloria

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 Gloria Estefan

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Read from the sky above Havana at 13:00, Gloria Estefan’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Havana that night

Computed for 23.14°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Havana at the birth hour: Zosma of Leo, within 2.4° of the exact zenith.

Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Havana sits at 23.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Sun -73° below the horizon, Moon down and 56% lit at first quarter.

What Gloria's birth time unlocks

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

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Strategist 天機, The Lunar Star 太陰 in 寅

Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

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Human Design

Generator, profile 4/6

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

64 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Gloria Estefan's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.

What Virgo means →

Fire Rooster

Says what everyone was thinking.

Gloria Estefan was born on September 1, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Gloria Estefan's birth date, September 1, 1957, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Gloria’s chart

Gloria’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Mars · Square, 0.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.5° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 1° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.3° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 6.4° orbSun in Virgo · 9°01′ · house 10☉9°Moon in Sagittarius · 15°42′ · house 1☽15°Mercury in Virgo · 23°47′ · house 10 · retrograde☿℞23°Venus in Libra · 15°11′ · house 11♀15°Mars in Virgo · 15°35′ · house 10♂15°Jupiter in Libra · 4°57′ · house 11♃4°Saturn in Sagittarius · 8°02′ · house 1♄8°Uranus in Leo · 9°16′ · house 9♅9°Neptune in Scorpio · 0°31′ · house 12♆0°Pluto in Virgo · 0°27′ · house 10♇0°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSgr 10°00′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCGem 10°00′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCVir 17°15′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICPsc 17°15′

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • MoonsquareMarsseparating · 0.1° orb

    Gloria’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.1° orb

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

  • MoonsextileVenusseparating · 0.5° orb

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

  • SunsquareSaturnseparating · 1.0° orb

  • SaturntrineUranusseparating · 1.2° orb

  • JupitersextileSaturnapplying · 3.1° orb

  • JupitersextileUranusapplying · 4.3° orb

  • MoontrineUranusseparating · 6.4° orb

  • SunconjunctionMarsapplying · 6.6° orb

  • SunsquareMoonseparating · 6.7° orb

  • MoonconjunctionSaturnseparating · 7.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 13°32′ · House 3

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 10°41′ · House 8

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 24°19′ · House 10

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 19°19′ · House 5

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 10°51′ · House 4

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Mercury 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Ascendant 0.9°
  • Chiron trine Venus 1.7°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.8°
  • Chiron sextile Moon 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.8°

Gloria’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; angular in the tenth house

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter10 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; disposes Moon, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon7 pts

    angular in the first house; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Gloria’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, PlutoThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars semi-square Neptune 0.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.2°
  • Moon semi-square Neptune 0.2°
  • Venus semi-square Pluto 0.3°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.5°
  • Moon quintile Jupiter 1.2°

Gloria’s houses

Gloria’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1SagittariusJupiter in Libra, house 11Moon, Saturnself, body, how you arrive
2CapricornSaturn in Sagittarius, house 1emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3AquariusUranus in Leo, house 9emptymind, siblings, the local world
4PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 12emptyhome, family, roots
5AriesMars in Virgo, house 10emptycreativity, romance, play
6TaurusVenus in Libra, house 11emptywork, habits, health
7GeminiMercury in Virgo, house 10emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8CancerMoon in Sagittarius, house 1emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9LeoSun in Virgo, house 10Uranusbelief, travel, higher learning
10VirgoMercury in Virgo, house 10Sun, Mercury, Mars, Plutocareer, reputation, public life
11LibraVenus in Libra, house 11Venus, Jupiterfriends, community, the future
12ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 10Neptunethe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Gloria’s cards

Computed from September 1, 1957. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Explorer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Gloria’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q184697 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Gloria Estefan at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gloria Estefan.

Quick answers about Gloria Estefan’s chart

How old is Gloria Estefan?
Gloria Estefan is 69 years old, born September 1, 1957 in Havana, Cuba.
What zodiac sign is Gloria Estefan?
Gloria Estefan is a Virgo: born September 1, 1957, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What is Gloria Estefan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 1, 1957 birth.
What time was Gloria Estefan born?
13:00 local time in Havana, Cuba, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Gloria Estefan's rising sign?
Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 13:00 birth time in Havana, Cuba (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What is Gloria Estefan's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Gloria Estefan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 13°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Gloria Estefan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 10°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Gloria Estefan's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; angular in the tenth house). Jupiter is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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