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Maria Tallchief

Maria Tallchief (born January 24, 1925, Fairfax, United States; died 2013), was an American ballerina. Tallchief's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, National Women's Hall of Fame and National Medal of Arts.

Maria Tallchief’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Maria Tallchief’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Guardian

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, 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

The SSA recorded 2,360 American girls and 33 boys named Maria in 1925: 115th among girls and 1,273rd among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Maria’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

8

Soul Urge · achievement

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on M (4) and closes on A (1).

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

6 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green

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 1924, 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

The Capezio Dance Award came in 1965, when Maria Tallchief was 40.

The schooling ran through School of American Ballet and Beverly Hills High School.

Maria Tallchief was 17 when the work began in 1942.

The record gives falling from height as the cause, and Fairfax Cemetery as the resting place.

Maria Tallchief was born to Alexander Joseph Tall Chief, married Elmourza Natirboff and Henry Paschen Jr. and raised one child.

Wikipedia files Maria Tallchief under People from Fairfax, Oklahoma, Native American dancers and Paris Opera Ballet étoiles.

Michio Kaku (1947) and Sharon Tate (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
School of American Ballet and Beverly Hills High School
Awards
Kennedy Center Honors (1996), National Women's Hall of Fame (1996) and Capezio Dance Award (1965)
Working from
1942
Cause of death
falling from height
Buried at
Fairfax Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
39

What the chart says

Maria, according to the stars

Core essence

Maria is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Maria is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Maria wants to be loved

Maria wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Maria you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

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 steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Maria is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Maria gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Maria

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Maria

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

PrivateExpressive
Maria

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Maria

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

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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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Maria Tallchief

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Fairfax on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Maria’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 79.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 40.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Fairfax that night

Computed for 36.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Fairfax was Capella, in Auriga, 79.8° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

Fairfax sits at 36.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −53.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Fairfax on any night.

Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Fairfax, United States

The death is recorded at Chicago, Cook County in 2013.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Maria Tallchief: 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

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

Grand trine

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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If you only read one paragraph

Aquarius Sun

Ideas first, people second.

Maria Tallchief's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 24, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Wood Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Maria Tallchief was born on January 24, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

Maria Tallchief's birth date, January 24, 1925, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Maria’s chart

Maria’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.2° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.9° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.1° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.4° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.6° orbSun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 1.9° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun in Aquarius · 4°16′☉4°Moon in Aquarius · 6°10′☽6°Mercury in Capricorn · 11°06′☿11°Venus in Capricorn · 12°15′♀12°Mars in Aries · 22°32′♂22°Jupiter in Capricorn · 8°29′♃8°Saturn in Scorpio · 13°37′♄13°Uranus in Pisces · 18°59′♅18°Neptune in Leo · 21°41′ · retrograde♆℞21°Pluto in Cancer · 12°03′ · retrograde♇℞12°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Maria’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.3° to 1.6° orb

    Maria’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune0.5° to 1.2° orb

    Maria’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn0.8° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn1.9° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.1° to 3.1° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.2° to 4.3° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto3.4° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.4° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto6.9° to 7.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable1 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.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 20°22′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 0°54′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 18°26′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 9°18′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 4°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.8°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.3°
  • Hygiea trine Mercury 1.8°
  • Chiron conjunction Mars 2.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.8°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 2.9°

Maria’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Maria’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Saturn, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Uranus 0.3°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°

Maria’s family here

One relative of Maria Tallchief also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Other Steadfast Guardians

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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs

Maria’s cards

Computed from January 24, 1925. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Maria’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q264400 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Maria Tallchief at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maria Tallchief.

Quick answers about Maria Tallchief’s chart

What zodiac sign was Maria Tallchief?
Maria Tallchief was an Aquarius: born January 24, 1925, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Maria Tallchief's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 24, 1925 birth.
What was Maria Tallchief's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Maria Tallchief's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Maria Tallchief's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Maria Tallchief's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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