Maryam Mirzakhani
Maryam Mirzakhani (born May 12, 1977, Tehran, Iran; died 2017), was an Iranian mathematician. Mirzakhani's honours include Fields medal, Clay Research Award and Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics.
Maryam Mirzakhani’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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Maryam Mirzakhani’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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Maryam’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Maryam, according to the stars
Core essence
Maryam is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Maryam is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Maryam is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Maryam needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Maryam wants to be loved
Maryam 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 Maryam creates
How Maryam makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Maryam creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Maryam is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Maryam is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Maryam 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 Maryam's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Maryam Mirzakhani's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 12, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Maryam Mirzakhani was born on May 12, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Maryam Mirzakhani's birth date, May 12, 1977, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Maryam’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maryam Mirzakhani's date-only chart is Venus opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Maryam Mirzakhani combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Maryam’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Maryam Mirzakhani, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Pisces 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.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.1° to 0.6° orb
Maryam’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.1° to 0.8° orb
Maryam’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarsoppositionPluto0.2° to 1.0° orb
Maryam’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.7° to 1.0° orb
Maryam’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
Maryam’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.1° to 1.6° orb
Maryam’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.5° to 1.6° orb
Maryam’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb
Maryam’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.7° to 3.2° orb
Maryam’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.0° to 3.5° orb
Maryam’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitertrinePluto3.4° to 3.6° orb
Maryam’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° orb
Maryam’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Maryam’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 2°42′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Maryam building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresVirgo 27°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Maryam caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 14°11′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Maryam is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 8°57′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Maryam is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Maryam that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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 sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 0.6°
- Eros square Venus 2.0°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.1°
- Eros square Pluto 2.4°
- Eros square Mars 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°).
Maryam’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. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars8 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn7 pts
7 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Maryam is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Maryam’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.
Kite · Venus, Saturn, Neptune, JupiterA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Venus, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
- Kite · Mars, Saturn, Neptune, JupiterA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
- Kite · Mars, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Uranus · Mars, Jupiter, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.0°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maryam Mirzakhani, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Maryam’s cards
Every card is computed from May 12, 1977, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Maryam Mirzakhani, 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
Maryam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1771279, 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 Gert-Martin Greuel, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maryam Mirzakhani 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.
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Quick answers about Maryam Mirzakhani’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Maryam Mirzakhani?
- Maryam Mirzakhani was a Taurus: born May 12, 1977, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was Maryam Mirzakhani's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 12, 1977 birth.
- What time was Maryam Mirzakhani 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 Maryam Mirzakhani's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 12, 1977 birth date.
- What was Maryam Mirzakhani's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 12, 1977 birth date.
- Where was Maryam Mirzakhani's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Maryam Mirzakhani's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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