Maria Dahvana Headley
Maria Dahvana Headley (born June 21, 1977, Estacada, United States), aged 49, is an American writer and translator. Headley is best known for Beowulf: A New Translation and The Mere Wife. Headley's honours include Hugo Award for Best Related Work, World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction and Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
Maria Dahvana Headley’s zodiac sign is Gemini or Cancer (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Fire Snake, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Maria’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Maria, according to the stars
How Maria wants to be loved
Maria wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Maria is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Maria creates
How Maria makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Maria creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Maria is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Maria is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Maria is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Maria's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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The quick version
Gemini or Cancer Sun
Maria Dahvana Headley was born on a day when the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Maria Dahvana Headley was born on June 21, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Maria Dahvana Headley's birth date, June 21, 1977, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Maria’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maria Dahvana Headley's date-only chart is Saturn trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
Maria’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Maria Dahvana Headley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.1° to 1.0° orb
Maria’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb
Maria’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.8° to 3.7° orb
Maria’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssquareSaturn2.2° to 2.9° orb
Maria’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
Maria’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
Maria’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.0° to 3.3° orb
Maria’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMarsoppositionUranus3.2° to 4.0° orb
Maria’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.2° to 3.5° orb
Maria’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.5° to 3.6° orb
Maria’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune5.0° to 7.1° orb
Maria’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.1° to 6.2° orb
Maria’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Maria’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 4°45′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Maria building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLibra 2°46′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Maria is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 2°05′ (moves 0.44° 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. Maria is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 16°26′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Maria is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Maria that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.2°
- Eros opposition Sun 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.8°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.1°
- Ceres square Sun 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°).
Maria’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
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
6 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Maria 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 Maria’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.
T-square onto Saturn · Mars, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.2°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maria Dahvana Headley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Maria’s family here
One relative of Maria Dahvana Headley also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Maria’s cards
Every card is computed from June 21, 1977, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Maria Dahvana Headley, 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
Maria’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6761132, 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 Maria Dahvana Headley, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maria Dahvana Headley at Wikipedia and mariadahvanaheadley.com.
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.
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Quick answers about Maria Dahvana Headley’s chart
- How old is Maria Dahvana Headley?
- Maria Dahvana Headley is 49 years old, born June 21, 1977 in Estacada, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Maria Dahvana Headley?
- Maria Dahvana Headley was born on a day when the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
- What is Maria Dahvana Headley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 21, 1977 birth.
- What time was Maria Dahvana Headley 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 Maria Dahvana Headley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the June 21, 1977 birth date.
- What is Maria Dahvana Headley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 21, 1977 birth date.
- Where is Maria Dahvana Headley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Maria Dahvana Headley's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
