Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova (born April 19, 1987, Nyagan, Russia), aged 39, is a Russian tennis player. Sharapova has played for Russia Billie Jean King Cup team. Sharapova's honours include Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award, Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class without swords and Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class.
Maria Sharapova’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Maria
Maria Sharapova’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
Of the names registered in 1987, Maria came 53rd among girls and 958th among boys, carried by 5,678 American girls and 97 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Maria’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
2
Soul Urge · closeness
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
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1987, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Maria apart
Maria Sharapova took the Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award in 2012, at 25.
Keystone National High School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 2001, at 14.
The family line: born to Elena Sharapova and Yuri Sharapov.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Maria Sharapova: Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class, Olympic silver medalists for Russia and American female pickleball players.
Kate Hudson (1979) and James Franco (1978) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Keystone National High School
- Awards
- Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award (2012) and tennis hall of fame (2025)
- Nominated for
- Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award and Best Female Athlete ESPY Award
- Working from
- 2001
- Sport
- tennis
- Citizenship
- Russia and Soviet Union
- Languages
- English and Russian
- Wikipedia editions
- 112
What the chart says
Maria, according to the stars
Core essence
Maria leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Maria is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Maria wants to be loved
Maria wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Maria, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Maria is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Maria scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Sharapova
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nyagan 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 Nyagan that night
Computed for 62.13°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Muscida stood nearest the zenith over Nyagan at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 62.1°N, Vega, Capella, Pollux, Deneb and Castor never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Fomalhaut, Mimosa, Toliman and Adhara cannot be seen from Nyagan at all: they sit past the −27.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 65% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -1° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Nyagan, Russia
- Lives in
- Manhattan Beach · Bradenton
Wikidata records Manhattan Beach and Bradenton as Maria Sharapova's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Maria Sharapova: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Maria's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Mars · Yod onto Pluto · 3-planet stellium in Aries
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Maria Sharapova's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 19, 1987, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Maria Sharapova was born on April 19, 1987, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Maria Sharapova's birth date, April 19, 1987, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Maria’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maria Sharapova's date-only chart is Venus square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Maria Sharapova combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Maria’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 1.6° orb
Maria’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareUranus0.1° to 1.3° orb
Maria’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileMars0.9° to 2.0° orb
Maria’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
stableSuntrineUranus1.6° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.7° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter2.1° to 2.6° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.3° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.4° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Maria’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 17°46′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 5°18′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 3°13′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 28°44′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 16°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.1°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.1°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.7°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.9°
Maria’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Maria’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.
Yod onto Mars · Neptune, Pluto, MarsTwo 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 Pluto · Mercury, Mars, PlutoTwo 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.
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.2°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.2°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.6°
More people like Maria
Other diplomats
- Michelle Kwan1980
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala1954
- Itamar Franco1930
- Ralph Bunche1904
- John Mott1865
Born in Russia
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- Anna KournikovaRussian tennis player and model
- Khabib NurmagomedovRussian professional mixed martial artist
- Anton TroianovskiSoviet-born American journalist
- Vladislav GoldinRussian basketball player (born 2001)
- Alexander GerkoRussian-British businessperson
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on April 19
- Kate Hudson1979
- James Franco1978
- Mukesh Ambani1957
- Gustavo Petro1960
- Tim Curry1946
- Hayden Christensen1981
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Milo ManheimAmerican actor and singer
- Kristóf MilákHungarian swimmer
- Jace NormanAmerican actor (born 2000)
Other Aries Rabbit charts
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- Olivia HusseyBritish actress
- Rosie Huntington-WhiteleyBritish model
- Hugh MasekelaSouth African jazz trumpeter
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Paul L. ModrichAmerican biochemist
- Mo YanChinese novelist and screenwriter
- Ben FeringaDutch Nobel laureate in chemistry
- Hans SpemannGerman embryologist
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Martha WellsAmerican science fiction and fantasy author born in Fort Worth, Texas 1964
- Paul CornellBritish writer
- Ursula Vernonauthor, illustrator
From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Maria’s cards
Computed from April 19, 1987. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Maria’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q11666 (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 Tourism Victoria, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maria Sharapova.
Quick answers about Maria Sharapova’s chart
- How old is Maria Sharapova?
- Maria Sharapova is 39 years old, born April 19, 1987 in Nyagan, Russia.
- What zodiac sign is Maria Sharapova?
- Maria Sharapova is an Aries: born April 19, 1987, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Maria Sharapova's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 19, 1987 birth.
- How tall is Maria Sharapova?
- Maria Sharapova is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Maria Sharapova's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Maria Sharapova's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Maria Sharapova's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Maria Sharapova's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
