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Malia Obama

Malia Obama (born July 4, 1998, Chicago, United States), aged 28, is a Daughter of former US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.

Malia Obama’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Malia Obama’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Diplomat

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

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

#349

US rank in 2025

~31,606

Americans share it since 1919

2009

its peak year

The SSA recorded 353 American girls named Malia in 1998: 654th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Malia’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

1

Soul Urge · independence

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on M (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Malia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Citrine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia

Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1998, 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 Malia apart

The schooling ran through University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and Sidwell Friends School.

Malia Obama was born to Michelle Obama and Barack Obama.

Wikipedia files Malia Obama under University of Chicago Laboratory Schools alumni, Obama family and Screenwriters from Chicago.

Post Malone (1995) and Michael Sorrentino (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Sidwell Friends School and Harvard University
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
6

What the chart says

Malia, according to the stars

Core essence

Malia feels the room before entering it. The core of Malia is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Malia, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Malia feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Malia needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Malia wants to be loved

Malia wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Malia like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Malia creates

How Malia makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Malia creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Malia is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Malia is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

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

Computed from Malia's birth date. Working below.

Where Malia sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Malia

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Malia

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

PrivateExpressive
Malia

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Malia

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

PracticalVisionary
Malia

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Malia

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

Dedicate a star to Malia Obama

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

Malia’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 75.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 18.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Chicago that night

Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 75.2° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 81 catalog stars were up in all.

Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 5° below the horizon, Moon up and 80% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Malia's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Saturn

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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Cancer Sun

Moody, and loyal past reason.

Malia Obama's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 4, 1998, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Earth Tiger

Courage before caution.

Malia Obama was born on July 4, 1998, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 2

Listens first, then decides.

Malia Obama's birth date, July 4, 1998, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Malia’s chart

Malia’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.2° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.9° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.1° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 2.1° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.7° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.5° orbSun in Cancer · 12°31′☉12°Moon in Scorpio · 14°35′☽14°Mercury in Leo · 5°46′☿5°Venus in Gemini · 12°07′♀12°Mars in Gemini · 28°52′♂28°Jupiter in Pisces · 27°46′♃27°Saturn in Taurus · 2°08′♄2°Uranus in Aquarius · 11°53′ · retrograde♅℞11°Neptune in Aquarius · 1°17′ · retrograde♆℞1°Pluto in Sagittarius · 5°46′ · retrograde♇℞5°

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

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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

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Malia’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Malia’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter0.8° to 1.4° orb

    Malia’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn2.9° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.0° to 3.6° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune3.5° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.7° to 5.2° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus5.4° to 6.9° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto5.7° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 12°28′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 22°06′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 14°31′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 17°39′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 22°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Sun 0.1°
  • Chiron square Uranus 0.6°
  • Eros trine Sun 2.0°
  • Eros square Uranus 2.6°

Malia’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Malia’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Neptune, SaturnAn 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 semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 0.6°
  • Sun biquintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.9°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 2.0°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 2.4°

Malia’s family here

3 relatives of Malia Obama also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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Malia’s cards

Computed from July 4, 1998. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Malia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15070044 (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 The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Malia Obama 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 Malia Obama.

Quick answers about Malia Obama’s chart

How old is Malia Obama?
Malia Obama is 28 years old, born July 4, 1998 in Chicago, United States.
What zodiac sign is Malia Obama?
Malia Obama is a Cancer: born July 4, 1998, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is Malia Obama's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 4, 1998 birth.
What is Malia Obama's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Malia Obama's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Malia Obama's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Malia Obama's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Venus, Mars; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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