Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 74, is an American journalist. Dowd's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
Maureen Dowd’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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Maureen Dowd’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Maureen in the U.S.?
#4424
US rank in 2025
~144,604
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Maureen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Maureen, according to the stars
Core essence
Maureen is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Maureen 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Maureen needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Maureen needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Maureen wants to be loved
Maureen 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 Maureen and watch them fall for you again.
How Maureen creates
How Maureen 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. Maureen 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: Maureen 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Maureen 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: 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. Maureen fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Maureen'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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Maureen Dowd's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 14, 1952, 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 Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Maureen Dowd was born on January 14, 1952, which falls in a Metal 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 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Maureen Dowd's birth date, January 14, 1952, 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 Maureen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maureen Dowd's date-only chart is Venus sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Maureen Dowd combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Maureen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Maureen Dowd, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° 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.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.0° to 1.2° orb
Maureen’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.1° to 6.3° orb
Maureen’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° orb
Maureen’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb
Maureen’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquareUranus3.4° to 3.5° orb
Maureen’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareMars3.7° to 4.3° orb
Maureen’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableJupitersquareUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb
Maureen’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileMars4.0° to 4.8° orb
Maureen’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.2° to 6.4° orb
Maureen’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.6° to 6.0° orb
Maureen’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.8° orb
Maureen’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn7.2° to 7.3° orb
Maureen’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Maureen’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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 6°43′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Maureen is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresPisces 18°45′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Maureen is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAries 22°55′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Maureen is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaPisces 20°59′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Maureen needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 21°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Maureen guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.0°
- Eros square Sun 0.6°
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.9°
- Eros opposition Neptune 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.8°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.5°
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°).
Maureen’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. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Maureen 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 Maureen’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.
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maureen Dowd, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Maureen’s cards
Every card is computed from January 14, 1952, 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 Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Maureen Dowd, 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
Maureen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1562058, 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 Frypie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maureen Dowd at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
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Quick answers about Maureen Dowd’s chart
- How old is Maureen Dowd?
- Maureen Dowd is 74 years old, born January 14, 1952 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Maureen Dowd?
- Maureen Dowd is a Capricorn: born January 14, 1952, 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 Rabbit.
- What is Maureen Dowd's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 14, 1952 birth.
- What time was Maureen Dowd 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 Maureen Dowd's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 14, 1952 birth date.
- What is Maureen Dowd's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 14, 1952 birth date.
- Where is Maureen Dowd's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Maureen Dowd's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
