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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Maureen
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 1896
1957
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1952, Maureen came 94th among girls and 4,091st among boys, carried by 4,039 American girls and 5 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Maureen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
11
Soul Urge · insight
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Maureen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Maureen apart
Yukio Mishima (1925) and Jason Bateman (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Maureen sits
Six lines
Maureen’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Maureen Dowd
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Washington at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 6.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.9°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 −51.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 93% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.
How unusual Maureen's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Uranus
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSaturnsquareUranus3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableSunsquareMars3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurysextileMars4.0° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.2° to 6.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.6° to 6.0° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn7.2° to 7.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 6°43′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 18°45′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 22°55′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 20°59′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 21°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Maureen’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Maureen’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.8°
More people like Maureen
Other columnists
- Richard Strout1898
- Joel Brinkley1952
- Cynthia Tucker1955
- William A. Caldwell1906
- E. R. Shipp1955
- Mary Schmich1953
Born in United States
- Harvey WeinsteinAmerican film producer and sex offender (born 1952)
- David HorseyAmerican cartoonist and columnist (born 1951)
- Bill T. JonesAmerican artist and dancer
- Jean SmartAmerican actress (born 1951)
- John CornynAmerican politician and attorney (born 1952)
- Mark HamillAmerican actor (born 1951)
More charts like Maureen’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Jill WagnerAmerican actress
- Laysla De OliveiraCanadian actress
- Vinnie JonesBritish footballer and actor
Born in Rabbit years
- Carl BennetSwedish businessman, chairman of Getinge and Lifco
- Yasuhide UnoJapanese businessman
- Vladimir BogdanovRussian businessman
Also born on January 14
- Yukio Mishima1925
- Jason Bateman1969
- Kai1994
- Grant Gustin1990
- Dave Grohl1969
- Caleb Followill1982
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Kate WilhelmAmerican science fiction writer
- William GoldmanAmerican novelist, screenwriter and playwright
- George Alec Effingernovelist, short story writer
Other Capricorn Rabbit charts
- ToosiiAmerican rapper from New York
- Ellesse AndrewsNew Zealand cyclist
- Brock PurdyAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Cary GrantBritish-American actor
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Mitchell RobinsonAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Derrick WhiteAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Jock LandaleAustralian basketball player (born 1995)
- Spencer JonesAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Jalen BrooksAmerican football player
- Tua TagovailoaAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Avonte MaddoxAmerican football cornerback
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Maureen’s cards
Computed from January 14, 1952. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Maureen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1562058 (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 Frypie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maureen Dowd at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maureen Dowd.
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.
- 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 is Maureen Dowd's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Maureen Dowd's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
