Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969, Huntington, United States), aged 57, is an American singer. Best-known releases include Mariah Carey, Emotions and Merry Christmas. Carey's honours include Grammy Award for Best R&B Song, Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album and Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Mariah Carey’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Mariah
Mariah Carey’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Mariah in the U.S.?
#448
US rank in 2025
~115,279
Americans share it since 1880
1996
its peak year
In 1969, 27 American girls were registered Mariah — 2,555th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mariah’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mariah’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Terracotta
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 1969, 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 Mariah apart
Wilhelm Röntgen (1845) and Quentin Tarantino (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Mariah, according to the stars
Core essence
Mariah 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 Mariah 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 Mariah wants to be loved
Mariah wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Mariah creates
How Mariah makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Mariah 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: Mariah is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Mariah 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 Mariah leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Mariah has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Mariah's birth date. Working below.
Where Mariah sits
Six lines
Mariah’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 Mariah Carey
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Huntington 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 Huntington that night
Computed for 40.87°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Huntington at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 7.9° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
Huntington sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 69% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 30° down.
How unusual Mariah's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · Five planets retrograde · Venus retrograde
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 →Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Mariah Carey's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 27, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Mariah Carey was born on March 27, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Mariah Carey's birth date, March 27, 1969, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Mariah’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mariah Carey's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mariah Carey combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Mariah’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Cancer or Leo 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
stableMoontrineMercury0.0° to 5.3° orb
Mariah’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableMoonsquareVenus0.1° to 6.3° orb
Mariah’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMoonsquareSaturn0.1° to 6.6° orb
Mariah’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.5° to 1.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.6° to 2.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.8° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.6° to 4.4° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter4.4° to 6.4° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.5° to 5.2° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus4.6° to 5.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Mariah’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 3°02′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius or Capricorn during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 25°53′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 25°54′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 1°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.2°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 1.5°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.7°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.5°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 2.6°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.6°
Mariah’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Mariah’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Venus, SaturnThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.6°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.6°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 2.4°
Mariah’s family here
2 relatives of Mariah Carey also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
More people like Mariah
Other actors
- Bobby Brown1969
- Jennifer Lopez1969
- Jennifer Aniston1969
- Josh Holloway1969
- Robert Sean Leonard1969
- Ken Jeong1969
Born in United States
- Jennifer AnistonAmerican actress
- Michael KellyAmerican actor
- Robert Sean LeonardAmerican actor
- Jon MeachamAmerican journalist and biographer (born 1969)
- Kim RaverAmerican actress and producer
- Ty FranckAmerican science fiction writer (1969-)
More charts like Mariah’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Susanne BierDanish film director (born 1960)
- Marsha MasonAmerican actress (born 1942)
- Alejandro AmenábarSpanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer
Born in Rooster years
- Katori HallAmerican playwright
- Tyler HicksAmerican photojournalist
- John M. HightowerAmerican reporter
Also born on March 27
- Wilhelm Röntgen1845
- Quentin Tarantino1963
- Lisa1997
- Fergie1975
- Brenda Song1988
- Halle Bailey2000
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Darnay HolmesAmerican football cornerback
- Teair TartAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Gervon DexterAmerican football player (born 2001)
Other Aries Rooster charts
- Harold NicholasAmerican dancer
- Zergio RoquetJugador uruguaio
- Guillermo VarelaUruguayan association football player
- Antonio NusaNorwegian footballer (born 2005)
Other Gilded Strategists
- Chester BenningtonAmerican singer, songwriter and musician
- Tiger WoodsAmerican golfer
- Tony AbbottPrime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015
- Ice CubeAmerican rapper and actor
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Wallace StevensAmerican poet
- Leonard D. WhiteAmerican historian
- Frank LoesserAmerican songwriter
From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Mariah’s cards
Computed from March 27, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mariah’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q41076 (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 Shawn Miller, Public domain, 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 Mariah Carey.
Quick answers about Mariah Carey’s chart
- How old is Mariah Carey?
- Mariah Carey is 57 years old, born March 27, 1969 in Huntington, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mariah Carey?
- Mariah Carey is an Aries: born March 27, 1969, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Mariah Carey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 27, 1969 birth.
- What is Mariah Carey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mariah Carey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mariah Carey's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mariah Carey's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
