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Mariska Hargitay

Mariska Hargitay (born January 23, 1964, Providence Saint John's Health Center, United States), aged 62, is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist (born 1964). Hargitay has served as founder and president. Hargitay's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Mariska Hargitay’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Mariska Hargitay’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 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Mariska in the U.S.?

#10607

US rank in 2025

~1,019

Americans share it since 1880

2007

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Mariska’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

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

The record

What sets Mariska apart

Hideki Yukawa (1907) and Doutzen Kroes (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Mariska, according to the stars

Core essence

Mariska is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Mariska 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 Mariska wants to be loved

Mariska 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 Mariska, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Mariska creates

How Mariska makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Mariska 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: Mariska 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Mariska is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Mariska goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

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

Where Mariska sits

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Mariska’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Mariska

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Mariska

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

PrivateExpressive
Mariska

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Mariska

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

PracticalVisionary
Mariska

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Mariska

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Providence Saint John's Health Center on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

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Mariska Hargitay at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Mariska Hargitay's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 23, 1964, 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.

Water Rabbit

Gentle, and never cornered.

Mariska Hargitay was born on January 23, 1964, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Mariska Hargitay's birth date, January 23, 1964, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Mariska’s chart

Mariska’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Mariska Hargitay, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.2° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 1° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.1° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.8° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.5° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 5° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 5.3° orbSun in Aquarius · 2°51′☉2°Moon in Taurus · 23°59′☽23°Mercury in Capricorn · 8°26′☿8°Venus in Pisces · 8°12′♀8°Mars in Aquarius · 8°18′♂8°Jupiter in Aries · 13°28′♃13°Saturn in Aquarius · 22°55′♄22°Uranus in Virgo · 9°25′ · retrograde♅℞9°Neptune in Scorpio · 17°39′♆17°Pluto in Virgo · 13°52′ · retrograde♇℞13°

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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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.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.1° to 0.4° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrineUranus0.5° to 1.4° orb

    Mariska’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus0.6° to 1.8° orb

    Mariska’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb

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

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.5° orb

    Mariska’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.7° to 5.4° orb

    Mariska’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto5.0° to 5.8° orb

    Mariska’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto5.0° to 6.3° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.2° to 5.3° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMars5.3° to 5.6° orb

    Mariska’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Mariska’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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 12°02′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Mariska absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 14°50′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Mariska is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 12°43′ (moves 0.65° over the day)

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Mariska is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 5°36′ (moves 0.13° 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. Mariska is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    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 Mariska leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

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.

  • Ceres square Pluto 1.0°
  • Eros opposition Pluto 1.2°
  • Ceres trine Jupiter 1.4°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.9°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 2.6°
  • Hygiea square Mars 2.7°
  • Hygiea square Sun 2.8°
  • Hygiea trine Mercury 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°).

Mariska’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. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Mariska is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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 Mariska’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mars, 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 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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Mars biquintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.5°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 1.1°
  • Sun quintile Jupiter 1.4°

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

Mariska’s family here

One relative of Mariska Hargitay also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Mariska’s cards

Every card is computed from January 23, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

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Strength

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Mariska Hargitay, 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

Mariska’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q275964, 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 Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Mariska Hargitay at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

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 Mariska Hargitay.

Quick answers about Mariska Hargitay’s chart

How old is Mariska Hargitay?
Mariska Hargitay is 62 years old, born January 23, 1964 in Providence Saint John's Health Center, United States.
What zodiac sign is Mariska Hargitay?
Mariska Hargitay is an Aquarius: born January 23, 1964, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit.
What is Mariska Hargitay's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 23, 1964 birth.
What time was Mariska Hargitay 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 is Mariska Hargitay's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the January 23, 1964 birth date.
What is Mariska Hargitay's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 23, 1964 birth date.
Where is Mariska Hargitay's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Mariska Hargitay's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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