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Mairead Maguire

Mairead Maguire (born January 27, 1944, Belfast, United Kingdom), aged 82, is a Peace activist (born 1944). Maguire's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, People's Peace Prize and Carl von Ossietzky Medal.

Mairead Maguire’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Mairead Maguire’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Scholar

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#4317

US rank in 2025

~1,402

Americans share it since 1967

2002

its peak year

Mairead is in US records from 1967, but 1944 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2002.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Mairead’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

7

Soul Urge · understanding

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on M (4) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

Mairead’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 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 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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 Mairead apart

Mairead Maguire took the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976, at 32.

Training came by way of Trinity College, Dublin.

Wikipedia's editors put Mairead Maguire under Women from Northern Ireland in politics, Activists from Belfast and Roman Catholics from Northern Ireland.

Rosamund Pike (1979) and Alan Cumming (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Trinity College, Dublin
Awards
Nobel Peace Prize (1976), Carl von Ossietzky Medal (1976) and Pacem in Terris Award (1990)
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
81

What the chart says

Mairead, according to the stars

Core essence

Mairead is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Mairead 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 Mairead wants to be loved

Mairead wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Mairead and watch them fall for you again.

How Mairead creates

How Mairead makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Mairead creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Mairead 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 1 is the pioneer. Mairead is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Mairead leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Mairead scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Mairead's birth date. Working below.

Where Mairead sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Mairead

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Mairead

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Mairead

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Mairead

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

PracticalVisionary
Mairead

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Mairead

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Mairead’s birth-night reference starMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 82.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirfak →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 75.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Belfast that night

Computed for 54.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Belfast at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirfak of Perseus, within 7.8° of the exact zenith.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Belfast sits at 54.6°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −35.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Belfast on any night.

The Moon, 7% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.

How unusual Mairead's chart is

Chart pattern score

65 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · Five planets retrograde · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Mairead Maguire in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

Mairead Maguire's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 27, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Water Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Mairead Maguire was born on January 27, 1944, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Mairead Maguire's birth date, January 27, 1944, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Mairead’s chart

Mairead’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 9° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Mars · Trine, 0.2° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.8° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.2° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.5° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.7° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.3° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.5° orbSun in Aquarius · 6°24′☉6°Moon in Pisces · 2°01′☽2°Mercury in Capricorn · 11°49′☿11°Venus in Sagittarius · 29°11′♀29°Mars in Gemini · 6°37′♂6°Jupiter in Leo · 24°04′ · retrograde♃℞24°Saturn in Gemini · 20°13′ · retrograde♄℞20°Uranus in Gemini · 4°56′ · retrograde♅℞4°Neptune in Libra · 4°07′ · retrograde♆℞4°Pluto in Leo · 7°37′ · retrograde♇℞7°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSuntrineMars0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Mairead’s core identity flows straight into their drive.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto0.7° to 1.7° orb

    Mairead’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune0.8° orb

    Mairead’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSuntrineUranus0.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto0.9° to 1.1° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.6° to 1.8° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune1.8° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune2.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune4.3° to 5.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 15°07′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 25°05′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 18°30′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 6°34′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 27°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Sun 0.2°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.0°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.6°

Mairead’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Mairead’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Sun, Mars, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Sun, Uranus, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mercury biquintile Mars 0.8°
  • Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.9°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.2°

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Mairead’s cards

Computed from January 27, 1944. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Mairead’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q157655 (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 Free Gaza movement, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Mairead Maguire at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mairead Maguire.

Quick answers about Mairead Maguire’s chart

How old is Mairead Maguire?
Mairead Maguire is 82 years old, born January 27, 1944 in Belfast, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Mairead Maguire?
Mairead Maguire is an Aquarius: born January 27, 1944, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Mairead Maguire's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1944 birth.
What is Mairead Maguire's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Mairead Maguire's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Mairead Maguire's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Mairead Maguire's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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