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Maria Shriver

Maria Shriver (born November 6, 1955, Chicago, United States, 17:12), aged 70, is First Lady of California from 2003 to 2011. Shriver has held office as First Lady or Partner of California. Shriver's honours include California Hall of Fame and Peabody Awards.

Maria Shriver’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Maria Shriver’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Scholar

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

1 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Gold · Crimson · Botanical green

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Maria apart

Sally Field (1946) and Ethan Hawke (1970) 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 does not do surface. The core of Maria is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Maria is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Maria needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Maria needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Maria wants to be loved

Maria wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Maria and watch them fall for you again.

How Maria creates

How Maria makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Maria creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Maria is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Maria is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Maria leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Maria fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Maria's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Maria sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Maria

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Maria

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Maria

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Maria

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Maria

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Maria

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Maria Shriver's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Maria Shriver was born on November 6, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.

Life Path 1

Goes first. Works it out.

Maria Shriver's birth date, November 6, 1955, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Maria’s chart

Maria’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.3° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.6° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 0.7° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.2° orbSun in Scorpio · 13°46′ · house 7☉13°Moon in Leo · 14°26′ · house 4☽14°Mercury in Libra · 27°59′ · house 6☿27°Venus in Sagittarius · 1°06′ · house 8♀1°Mars in Libra · 15°44′ · house 6♂15°Jupiter in Leo · 28°55′ · house 4♃28°Saturn in Scorpio · 22°37′ · house 7♄22°Uranus in Leo · 2°20′ · house 4♅2°Neptune in Libra · 28°34′ · house 6♆28°Pluto in Leo · 28°28′ · house 4♇28°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCTau 26°26′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCSco 26°26′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAqr 3°27′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLeo 3°27′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Square 90°
Trine 120°
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AscendantTaurus
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.1° orb

    Maria’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • JupitersextileNeptuneseparating · 0.3° orb

    Maria’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • JupiterconjunctionPlutoseparating · 0.4° orb

    Maria’s growth and depths act as one.

  • MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 0.5° orb

    Maria’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MercuryconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 0.6° orb

    Maria’s mind and imagination act as one.

  • SunsquareMoonseparating · 0.7° orb

    Maria’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • MercurysextileJupiterapplying · 0.9° orb

    Maria’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • VenustrineUranusapplying · 1.2° orb

    Maria’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • MoonsextileMarsapplying · 1.3° orb

    Maria’s feelings open doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • VenussquareJupiterseparating · 2.2° orb

    Maria’s affections grind against their growth.

  • VenussquarePlutoseparating · 2.6° orb

    Maria’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • UranussquareNeptuneapplying · 3.8° orb

    Maria’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • MercurysquareUranusapplying · 4.4° orb

    Maria’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • SaturnsquarePlutoapplying · 5.9° orb

    Maria’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 6.3° orb

    Maria’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 0°35′ · House 10

    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.

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 22°16′ · House 9

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Maria caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ♡ ErosLibra 14°15′ · House 6

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Maria is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 26°06′ · House 7

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Maria carrying stress in the body until it is named.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 26°48′ · House 8

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Maria leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Eros sextile Moon 0.2°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 0.3°
  • Hygiea opposition Ascendant 0.3°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.2°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 1.5°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.8°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.1°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 2.4°
  • Chiron square Mercury 2.6°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 2.8°

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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Saturn; angular in the fourth house; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Maria is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Moon, Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.

  • Venus semi-square Mars 0.4°
  • Mars quintile Uranus 1.4°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 2.0°

Maria’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1TaurusVenus in Sagittarius, house 8emptyself, body, how you arrive
2GeminiMercury in Libra, house 6emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3CancerMoon in Leo, house 4emptymind, siblings, the local world
4LeoSun in Scorpio, house 7Moon, Jupiter, Uranus, Plutohome, family, roots
5VirgoMercury in Libra, house 6emptycreativity, romance, play
6LibraVenus in Sagittarius, house 8Mercury, Mars, Neptunework, habits, health
7ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 4Sun, Saturnpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8SagittariusJupiter in Leo, house 4Venusshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CapricornSaturn in Scorpio, house 7emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AquariusUranus in Leo, house 4emptycareer, reputation, public life
11PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 6emptyfriends, community, the future
12AriesMars in Libra, house 6emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Maria’s cards

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The Gilded Scholar

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Maria’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230654, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Maria Shriver’s chart

How old is Maria Shriver?
Maria Shriver is 70 years old, born November 6, 1955 in Chicago, United States.
What zodiac sign is Maria Shriver?
Maria Shriver is a Scorpio: born November 6, 1955, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
What is Maria Shriver's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 6, 1955 birth.
What time was Maria Shriver born?
17:12 local time in Chicago, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Maria Shriver's rising sign?
Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 17:12 birth time in Chicago, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Maria Shriver's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the November 6, 1955 birth date.
What is Maria Shriver's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 0°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 6, 1955 birth time.
Where is Maria Shriver's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 26°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Maria Shriver's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Saturn; angular in the fourth house; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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