Maria Göppert Mayer
Maria Göppert Mayer (born June 28, 1906, Katowice, Poland; died 1972), was a German-born American theoretical physicist. Mayer is best remembered for nuclear shell model. Mayer's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Women's Hall of Fame and Golden Plate Award.
Maria Göppert Mayer’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Horse, with 
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Maria Göppert Mayer’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
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
5 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Maria, according to the stars
Core essence
Maria feels the room before entering it. The core of Maria 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 Maria, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Maria is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Maria needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Maria wants to be loved
Maria wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Maria openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Maria creates
How Maria makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Maria creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Maria is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Maria is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Maria does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Maria's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Maria sits
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Maria Göppert Mayer's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 28, 1906, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Fire Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Maria Göppert Mayer was born on June 28, 1906, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Maria Göppert Mayer's birth date, June 28, 1906, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Maria’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maria Göppert Mayer's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Maria Göppert Mayer combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Maria’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Maria Göppert Mayer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° 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.
stableSunoppositionUranus0.2° to 1.2° orb
Maria’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto0.2° to 0.4° orb
Maria’s growth and depths act as one.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.7° to 1.4° orb
Maria’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
Maria’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.7° to 4.6° orb
Maria’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineSaturn3.7° to 4.4° orb
Maria’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarsoppositionUranus4.1° to 4.8° 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.
stableSunconjunctionMars5.1° to 5.4° orb
Maria’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.1° orb
Maria’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 11°50′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Maria making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 23°27′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Maria is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLeo 6°34′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Maria loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 19°38′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Maria is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 28°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Maria is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Chiron opposition Venus 2.6°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.6°
- Eros conjunction Venus 2.7°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.9°
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. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Maria is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
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.
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maria Göppert Mayer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Maria’s cards
Every card is computed from June 28, 1906, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Maria Göppert Mayer, 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 Q57100, 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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maria Göppert Mayer at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Maria Göppert Mayer.
Quick answers about Maria Göppert Mayer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Maria Göppert Mayer?
- Maria Göppert Mayer was a Cancer: born June 28, 1906, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse.
- What was Maria Göppert Mayer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 28, 1906 birth.
- What time was Maria Göppert Mayer 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 was Maria Göppert Mayer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the June 28, 1906 birth date.
- What was Maria Göppert Mayer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 28, 1906 birth date.
- Where was Maria Göppert Mayer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Maria Göppert Mayer's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
