Mary Barra
Mary Barra (born December 24, 1961, Waterford, United States), aged 64, is a Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Barra has served as manager and chief executive officer. Barra's honours include Time 100 and honorary degree.
Mary Barra’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Ox, with 
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Mary Barra’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 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Mary in the U.S.?
#125
US rank in 2025
~4,156,654
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Mary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Mary, according to the stars
Core essence
Mary is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Mary is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Mary wants to be loved
Mary 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 Mary and watch them fall for you again.
How Mary creates
How Mary makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Mary 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: Mary 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Mary 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.
Computed from Mary's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mary sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Mary Barra's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 24, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Mary Barra was born on December 24, 1961, which falls in a Metal 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 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Mary Barra's birth date, December 24, 1961, 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 Mary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mary Barra's date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Mary Barra 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.
Mary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Mary Barra, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMarstrineUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Mary’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineUranus1.8° to 2.8° orb
Mary’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.9° to 3.5° orb
Mary’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMars2.6° to 2.8° orb
Mary’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb
Mary’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.8° to 4.0° orb
Mary’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.5° to 5.1° orb
Mary’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.1° to 5.6° orb
Mary’s affections and drive act as one.
stableVenustrineUranus5.2° to 6.4° orb
Mary’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars7.0° to 7.9° orb
Mary’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Mary’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 2°46′ (moves 0.04° 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 Mary absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 12°50′ (moves 0.05° 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. Mary is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAquarius 2°21′ (moves 0.58° 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. Mary is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 10°27′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Mary is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 6°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Mary exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.1°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.4°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.7°
- Chiron sextile Mars 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°).
Mary’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. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Mary 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 Mary’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 in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, 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.
- Uranus quintile Neptune 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mary Barra, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Mary’s cards
Every card is computed from December 24, 1961, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Mary Barra, 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
Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6779013, 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 Benjamin Applebaum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mary Barra at Wikipedia and X.
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 Mary Barra.
Quick answers about Mary Barra’s chart
- How old is Mary Barra?
- Mary Barra is 64 years old, born December 24, 1961 in Waterford, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mary Barra?
- Mary Barra is a Capricorn: born December 24, 1961, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox.
- What is Mary Barra's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 24, 1961 birth.
- What time was Mary Barra 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 Mary Barra's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the December 24, 1961 birth date.
- What is Mary Barra's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 24, 1961 birth date.
- Where is Mary Barra's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mary Barra's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
