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Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29, 1936, Brooklyn, United States; died 2017), was an American actress and television producer. Moore's honours include Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.

Mary Tyler Moore’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Mary Tyler Moore’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Diplomat

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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

In 1936, 54,377 American girls and 292 boys were registered Mary — 1st among girls and 313th among boys on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Mary’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

5

Soul Urge · freedom

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Mary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1936, 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 Mary apart

The Emmy Award came in 1964, when Mary Tyler Moore was 28.

Study took Mary Tyler Moore to Immaculate Heart Middle & High School.

Mary Tyler Moore was 22 when the work began in 1958.

The record gives pneumonia as the cause, and Oak Lawn Cemetery as the resting place.

Mary Tyler Moore was born to Marjorie Hackett and George Tyler Moore and married Grant Tinker.

On Wikipedia the categories read MTM Enterprises, Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles) alumni and Deaths from pneumonia in Connecticut.

Jude Law (1972) and Victor Osimhen (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Immaculate Heart Middle & High School
Instruments
voice
Awards
Emmy Award (1964), Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama (1980) and Golden Globe for an Actress in a Television Series (1964)
Nominated for
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
Working from
1958
Cause of death
pneumonia
Buried at
Oak Lawn Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
65

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 as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Mary be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Mary creates

How Mary makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Mary creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Mary is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Mary 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Mary fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Mary's birth date. Working below.

Where Mary sits

Six lines

Mary’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Mary

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Mary

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

PrivateExpressive
Mary

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Mary

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

PracticalVisionary
Mary

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Mary

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Mary Tyler Moore

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night

Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 6.1° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 95% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 49° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Brooklyn, United States

The death is recorded at Greenwich, Western Connecticut Planning Region in 2017.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Mary Tyler Moore: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Mary's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Capricorn · T-square onto Mars · No Fire planets

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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Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Mary Tyler Moore's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 29, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Rat

Resourceful is an understatement.

Mary Tyler Moore was born on December 29, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 6

Home is the project.

Mary Tyler Moore's birth date, December 29, 1936, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Mary’s chart

Mary’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.1° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.5° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.6° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 0.7° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.3° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.6° orbSaturn faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.8° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 2° orbSun in Capricorn · 7°50′☉7°Moon in Cancer · 28°08′☽28°Mercury in Capricorn · 27°25′☿27°Venus in Aquarius · 21°24′♀21°Mars in Libra · 26°05′♂26°Jupiter in Capricorn · 6°14′♃6°Saturn in Pisces · 17°11′♄17°Uranus in Taurus · 5°43′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Virgo · 18°57′ · retrograde♆℞18°Pluto in Cancer · 28°04′ · retrograde♇℞28°

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

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

  • stableMoonoppositionMercury0.1° to 7.1° orb

    Mary’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.

  • stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.1° to 7.0° orb

    Mary’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.1° to 1.2° orb

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

  • stableJupitertrineUranus0.4° to 0.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars1.1° to 1.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.2° to 2.0° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus1.6° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto1.7° to 2.3° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars4.4° to 5.0° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.7° to 14.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

Mary’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 19°32′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 9°24′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 5°10′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 8°13′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 9°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea opposition Sun 0.4°
  • Chiron square Neptune 0.6°
  • Eros trine Uranus 0.6°
  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.1°
  • Ceres conjunction Sun 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.8°
  • Chiron trine Venus 1.9°
  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.0°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.5°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 2.7°

Mary’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☽ Moon5 pts

    in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Mary’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun quintile Mars 0.2°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.0°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 2.5°

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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign

Mary’s cards

Computed from December 29, 1936. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Diplomat

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q41342 (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 Nick Step; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:43, 4 April 2014 (UTC), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Mary Tyler Moore 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 Mary Tyler Moore.

Quick answers about Mary Tyler Moore’s chart

What zodiac sign was Mary Tyler Moore?
Mary Tyler Moore was a Capricorn: born December 29, 1936, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Mary Tyler Moore's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 29, 1936 birth.
What was Mary Tyler Moore's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Mary Tyler Moore's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Mary Tyler Moore's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Mary Tyler Moore's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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