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), Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Maria
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 7,094 American girls and 57 boys named Maria in 1977: 36th among girls and 1,168th 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
11
Personality · perceptive
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
Maria’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Maria apart
Benazir Bhutto (1953) and Chris Pratt (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Estacada on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Estacada that night
Computed for 45.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Estacada at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.8° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
From 45.3°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −44.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Estacada on any night.
The Moon, 26% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 0° below the horizon.
How unusual Maria's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Leo or Virgo 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
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
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.0° to 3.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus3.2° to 4.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.2° to 3.5° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune5.0° to 7.1° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.1° to 6.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 4°45′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 2°46′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 2°05′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 16°26′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Maria’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Maria’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.2°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.2°
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One relative of Maria Dahvana Headley also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on June 21
- Benazir Bhutto1953
- Chris Pratt1979
- Joko Widodo1961
- Shirin Ebadi1947
- William, Prince of Wales1982
- Scottie Scheffler1996
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Philippe CoutinhoBrazilian association football player
- Andrew TateAmerican-British businessman, former kickboxer, dating coach and manosphere influencer
- Fred RogersAmerican television personality
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Edward Mills PurcellAmerican physicist
- Niels Ryberg FinsenFaroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent
- Richard R. Schrock1945-, American chemist
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
Computed from June 21, 1977. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Maria’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6761132 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maria Dahvana Headley.
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.
- 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 is Maria Dahvana Headley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Maria Dahvana Headley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
