Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison (born Mae Carol Jeminson; October 17, 1956, Decatur, United States), aged 69, is an American doctor and NASA astronaut. Jemison's honours include National Women's Hall of Fame, Texas Women's Hall of Fame and International Space Hall of Fame.
Mae Jemison’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Monkey, with 
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Mae Jemison’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Mae in the U.S.?
#501
US rank in 2025
~115,441
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
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Mae’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Mae, according to the stars
Core essence
Mae makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Mae is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Mae wants to be loved
Mae wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Mae and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Mae creates
How Mae makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Mae creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Mae 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Mae 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Mae slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Mae's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Mae Jemison's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 17, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Mae Jemison was born on October 17, 1956, which falls in a Fire 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 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Mae Jemison's birth date, October 17, 1956, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Mae’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mae Jemison's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Mae Jemison combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Mae’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Mae Jemison, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableMoontrineSaturn0.0° to 6.7° orb
Mae’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionMars0.0° to 0.7° orb
Mae’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° orb
Mae’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.4° to 1.9° orb
Mae’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Mae’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.2° to 6.1° orb
Mae’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.9° to 6.0° orb
Mae’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableUranussquareNeptune6.8° orb
Mae’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter7.6° to 7.7° orb
Mae’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 2.0° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 2.9° to 15.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Mae’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 6°26′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Mae making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 11°33′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Mae looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosCapricorn 26°12′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Mae is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 23°09′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Mae is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 5°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Mae at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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 opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.2°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.4°
- Eros square Sun 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.5°
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°).
Mae’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Mae is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Mae’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.
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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 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.
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.8°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mae Jemison, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Mae’s cards
Every card is computed from October 17, 1956, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Mae Jemison, 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
Mae’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q34091, 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 NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mae Jemison at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
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 Mae Jemison.
Quick answers about Mae Jemison’s chart
- How old is Mae Jemison?
- Mae Jemison is 69 years old, born October 17, 1956 in Decatur, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mae Jemison?
- Mae Jemison is a Libra: born October 17, 1956, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey.
- What is Mae Jemison's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 17, 1956 birth.
- What time was Mae Jemison 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 is Mae Jemison's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 17, 1956 birth date.
- What is Mae Jemison's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 17, 1956 birth date.
- Where is Mae Jemison's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mae Jemison's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
