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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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

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

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Maria sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in Maria’s chart

Maria’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Maria Tallchief, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.1° orb

    Maria’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb

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

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn1.9° to 3.1° orb

    Maria’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.1° to 3.1° orb

    Maria’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.2° to 4.3° orb

    Maria’s affections and growth act as one.

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto3.4° to 3.7° orb

    Maria’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.4° orb

    Maria’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableUranustrinePluto6.9° to 7.0° orb

    Maria’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Maria may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

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

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Maria is read as someone who shows care by providing.

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

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Maria is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 9°18′ (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 LilithCancer 4°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Maria guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

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.

  • 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°

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. 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

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Maria is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maria Tallchief, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Maria’s family here

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

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Maria’s cards

Every card is computed from January 24, 1925, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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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

No birth time is on public record for Maria Tallchief, 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 Q264400, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Maria Tallchief at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
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 time was Maria Tallchief 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 was Maria Tallchief's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the January 24, 1925 birth date.
What was Maria Tallchief's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 24, 1925 birth date.
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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