Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa (born October 2, 1963, Manila, Philippines), aged 62, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rabbit, with 
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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
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
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Maria Ressa, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Pisces or Aries 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.
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
Maria’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
Maria’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.4° to 1.5° orb
Maria’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.7° orb
Maria’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.0° to 3.7° orb
Maria’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.1° orb
Maria’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunoppositionJupiter6.5° to 7.6° orb
Maria’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
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
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 ℞Pisces 11°21′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Maria absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLibra 26°52′ (moves 0.44° 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.
♡ ErosCapricorn 15°14′ (moves 0.30° 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.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 15°47′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Maria is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 18°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Maria is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- 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°
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. ♀ 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
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.
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 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maria Ressa, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Maria
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Born in Philippines
- Manny VillarFilipino businessman; President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2006 to 2008
- Carlos P. RomuloFilipino politician and diplomat
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- Alexander SchneiderLithuanian musician
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Maria’s cards
Every card is computed from October 2, 1963, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Maria Ressa, 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 Q6761526, 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 Jaramo81, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maria Ressa at Wikipedia and X.
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 Ressa.
Quick answers about Maria Ressa’s chart
- How old is Maria Ressa?
- Maria Ressa is 62 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit.
- 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 time was Maria Ressa 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 Ressa's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the October 2, 1963 birth date.
- What is Maria Ressa's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 2, 1963 birth date.
- 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.
