Maria Bello
Maria Bello (born April 18, 1967, Norristown, United States), aged 59, is an American actress. Bello's honours include Max Mara Face of the Future Award.
Maria Bello’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Maria
Maria Bello’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Maria in the U.S.?
#87
US rank in 2025
~570,389
Americans share it since 1880
1964
its peak year
The SSA recorded 8,878 American girls and 55 boys named Maria in 1967: 42nd among girls and 983rd among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Maria’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
22
Soul Urge · legacy
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on M (4) and closes on A (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Maria’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1967, 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 Maria apart
The Max Mara Face of the Future Award came in 2006, when Maria Bello was 39.
Maria Bello was taught at Villanova University and Saint Teresa of Avila School.
Maria Bello was 25 when the work began in 1992.
The family line: married Dominique Crenn.
Wikipedia files Maria Bello under Villanova University alumni, Archbishop John Carroll High School alumni and People from Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Conan O'Brien (1963) and Haile Gebrselassie (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Villanova University, Saint Teresa of Avila School and Archbishop John Carroll High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Max Mara Face of the Future Award (2006)
- Working from
- 1992
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Maria, according to the stars
Core essence
Maria leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Maria is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Maria needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Maria needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Maria wants to be loved
Maria 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 Maria like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Maria creates
How Maria makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Maria 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: Maria is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Maria is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Maria fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Maria's birth date. Working below.
Where Maria sits
Six lines
Maria’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Maria Bello
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Norristown on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Norristown that night
Computed for 40.12°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Norristown at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.2° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
Norristown sits at 40.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Norristown on any night.
The Moon, 63% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 24° below the horizon.
How unusual Maria's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Jupiter · Mars retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →Maria Bello at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Maria Bello's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 18, 1967, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Maria Bello was born on April 18, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Maria Bello's birth date, April 18, 1967, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Maria’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maria Bello's date-only chart is Venus sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Maria Bello combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Maria’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 1.4° orb
Maria’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb
Maria’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.0° to 1.5° orb
Maria’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareJupiter1.8° to 2.3° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter1.9° to 2.8° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.6° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune2.7° orb
stableSunoppositionMars3.7° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus4.6° to 4.8° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Maria’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 27°35′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 6°30′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 15°33′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 12°45′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 12°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mercury 0.2°
- Ceres square Saturn 0.9°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.8°
Maria’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Maria’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Mars, JupiterAn 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.
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.0°
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Fellow Yang Water day masters
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Maria’s cards
Computed from April 18, 1967. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Maria’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229220 (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 Gordon Correll, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maria Bello at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maria Bello.
Quick answers about Maria Bello’s chart
- How old is Maria Bello?
- Maria Bello is 59 years old, born April 18, 1967 in Norristown, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Maria Bello?
- Maria Bello is an Aries: born April 18, 1967, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Maria Bello's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 18, 1967 birth.
- What is Maria Bello's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Maria Bello's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Maria Bello's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Maria Bello's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
