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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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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.

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

#351

US rank in 2025

~13,845

Americans share it since 1946

2025

its peak year

Maryam ranked 2,180th in 1977, the year of this birth, with 43 American girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Maryam’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on M (4) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.

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

Maryam’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, 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 Maryam apart

Maryam Mirzakhani took the Blumenthal Award in 2009, at 32.

The classrooms behind this chart: Farzanegan School and Sharif University of Technology.

Cause of death is recorded as breast cancer.

The family line: married Jan Vondrák.

Wikipedia's editors put Maryam Mirzakhani under Stanford University Department of Mathematics faculty, Iranian expatriate academics in the United States and Scientists from Tehran.

Rishi Sunak (1980) and Dorothy Hodgkin (1910) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Farzanegan School, Sharif University of Technology and Harvard University
Awards
Fields medal (2014), Clay Research Award (2014) and Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics (2013)
Cause of death
breast cancer
Citizenship
United States and Iran
Languages
English and Persian
Wikipedia editions
97

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. Working below.

Where Maryam sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Maryam

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Maryam

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

PrivateExpressive
Maryam

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Maryam

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

PracticalVisionary
Maryam

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Maryam

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Maryam Mirzakhani

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tehran on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Maryam’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 77.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 24.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Tehran that night

Computed for 35.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Tehran was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 77.6° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.

From 35.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −54.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 25% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 11° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Tehran, Iran
Lived in
Palo Alto

Wikidata records Palo Alto as Maryam Mirzakhani's home, against Tehran as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Stanford, Santa Clara County in 2017.

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

How unusual Maryam's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Uranus · Grand trine · T-square onto Saturn

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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Taurus Sun

Comfort 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.

What Taurus means →

Fire Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Maryam Mirzakhani was born on May 12, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Maryam Mirzakhani's birth date, May 12, 1977, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Maryam’s chart

Maryam’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.3° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.5° orbMars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.6° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.9° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.3° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.5° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.7° orbSun in Taurus · 21°27′☉21°Moon in Pisces · 17°03′☽17°Mercury in Taurus · 4°48′ · retrograde☿℞4°Venus in Aries · 12°08′♀12°Mars in Aries · 11°16′♂11°Jupiter in Gemini · 8°18′♃8°Saturn in Leo · 10°48′♄10°Uranus in Scorpio · 9°16′ · retrograde♅℞9°Neptune in Sagittarius · 15°24′ · retrograde♆℞15°Pluto in Libra · 11°49′ · retrograde♇℞11°

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

  • 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

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn1.1° to 1.6° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus1.5° to 1.6° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter2.7° to 3.2° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune3.0° to 3.5° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto3.4° to 3.6° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 2°42′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 27°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 14°11′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 8°57′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Maryam’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars8 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    7 major aspects

Configurations in Maryam’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · 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, the shape it makesKite · 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, the shape it makesKite · 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, the shape it makesKite · 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, the shape it makesT-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, the shape it makesYod 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.0°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 2.0°

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Maryam’s cards

Computed from May 12, 1977. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Maryam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1771279 (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 Gert-Martin Greuel, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Maryam Mirzakhani at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maryam Mirzakhani.

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.
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 was Maryam Mirzakhani's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Maryam Mirzakhani's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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