Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa (born October 2, 1963, Manila, Philippines), aged 63, is a Filipino journalist. Ressa's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award and Kurt Tucholsky Prize.
Maria Ressa’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Water Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Maria
Maria Ressa’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, 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
In 1963, 9,854 American girls and 35 boys were registered Maria — 43rd among girls and 1,335th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Maria’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
4 · 3 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Maria apart
Mahatma Gandhi (1869) and Alisson Becker (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Maria, according to the stars
Core essence
Maria makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Maria is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Maria wants to be loved
Maria wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Maria gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Maria creates
How Maria makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Maria creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Maria is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Maria is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Maria runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Ressa
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manila 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 Manila that night
Computed for 14.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Manila at 9 p.m. that evening: Enif of Pegasus, within 5.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Manila sits at 14.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.
How unusual Maria's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Jupiter · Yod onto Jupiter
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Maria Ressa's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 2, 1963, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Maria Ressa was born on October 2, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Maria Ressa's birth date, October 2, 1963, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Maria’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maria Ressa's date-only chart is Venus trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Maria Ressa combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Maria’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Pisces or Aries 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
stableVenustrineSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb
Maria’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.3° to 1.0° orb
Maria’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssextilePluto0.3° to 0.9° orb
Maria’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter1.2° to 2.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.4° to 1.5° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.7° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn3.0° to 3.7° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.1° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter6.5° to 7.6° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 2.7° to 17.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 11°21′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 26°52′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 15°14′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 15°47′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 18°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.1°
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.0°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.6°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 1.7°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.8°
- Eros square Venus 1.9°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.1°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.4°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 2.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.9°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 3.0°
Maria’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Uranus, Pluto
Configurations in Maria’s chart
Yod onto Jupiter · Mars, Pluto, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Jupiter · Neptune, Pluto, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.5°
More people like Maria
Other editing staffs
Born in Philippines
- Manny VillarFilipino businessman; President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2006 to 2008
- Carlos P. RomuloFilipino politician and diplomat
- Bretman RockFilipino-American social media personality
- Yuka SasoGolfer
- Vice GandaFilipino entertainer
- Vanessa LacheyFilipino actress
More charts like Maria’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Mary BadhamAmerican actress
- David MorseAmerican actor
- Douglas SilvaBrazilian actor
Born in Rabbit years
- Jeremy JacobsAmerican ice hockey executive
- Jeffrey LurieAmerican football owner, CEO, film producer
- Huang RulunChinese billionaire businessman (born 1951)
Also born on October 2
- Mahatma Gandhi1869
- Alisson Becker1992
- Roberto Firmino1991
- Alice Walton1949
- Diamond Platnumz1989
- Michou2001
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Adam GarciaAustralian actor and tap dancer
- Amy LocaneAmerican actress
- Patricia ArquetteAmerican actress (born 1968)
Other Libra Rabbit charts
- Olivia JadeAmerican Internet personality
- Mark HamillAmerican actor (born 1951)
- Jesse Tyler FergusonAmerican actor
- John MellencampAmerican singer-songwriter
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Alexander SchneiderLithuanian musician
- Diogo DalotPortuguese footballer (born 1999)
- Takefusa KuboJapanese association football player
- Nikola VlašićCroatian footballer
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Elizabeth BishopAmerican poet
- Amy Lawrence LowellUS writer
- Kay RyanAmerican poet
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Maria’s cards
Computed from October 2, 1963. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Maria’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6761526 (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 Jaramo81, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maria Ressa at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maria Ressa.
Quick answers about Maria Ressa’s chart
- How old is Maria Ressa?
- Maria Ressa is 63 years old, born October 2, 1963 in Manila, Philippines.
- What zodiac sign is Maria Ressa?
- Maria Ressa is a Libra: born October 2, 1963, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Maria Ressa's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 2, 1963 birth.
- What is Maria Ressa's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Maria Ressa's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Maria Ressa's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Maria Ressa's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
