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Maurice White

Maurice White (born December 19, 1941, Memphis, United States, 08:28; died 2016), was an American musician. White's honours include Grammy Awards and Kennedy Center Honors.

Maurice White’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Maurice White’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Storyteller

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#1020

US rank in 2025

~138,943

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1941, Maurice came 163rd among boys and 1,593rd among girls, carried by 1,026 American boys and 25 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Maurice’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

5

Soul Urge · freedom

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

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

Maurice’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia

Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Maurice apart

Jake Gyllenhaal (1980) and Alexis Sánchez (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Maurice, according to the stars

Core essence

Maurice is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Maurice is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Maurice is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Maurice needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Maurice wants to be loved

Maurice 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 Maurice be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Maurice creates

How Maurice makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Maurice creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Maurice 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Maurice is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Maurice leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Maurice 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 Maurice's birth date. Working below.

Where Maurice sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Maurice

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Maurice

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Maurice

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Maurice

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Maurice

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Maurice

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Maurice White

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

Maurice’s birth-sky starIzarwarm orange · BoötesIzar, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 80.7° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Izar →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 21.7° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

Read from the sky above Memphis at 08:28, Maurice White’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Memphis that night

Computed for 35.15°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Memphis was Izar, in Boötes, 80.7° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.

From 35.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Memphis at all: they sit past the −54.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun -13° below the horizon, Moon up and 2% lit at new moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Memphis, United States

The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2016.

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What Maurice's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Breaker 破軍 in 申

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Wealth

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifestor, profile 6/2

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Water planets · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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Maurice White at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Maurice White's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.

What Sagittarius means →

Metal Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Maurice White was born on December 19, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Maurice White's birth date, December 19, 1941, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Maurice’s chart

Maurice’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.4° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.5° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.6° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.7° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.9° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 4.5° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.7° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 5.8° orbSun in Sagittarius · 27°19′ · house 12☉27°Moon in Capricorn · 13°49′ · house 1☽13°Mercury in Sagittarius · 25°57′ · house 12☿25°Venus in Aquarius · 11°12′ · house 2♀11°Mars in Aries · 19°38′ · house 4♂19°Jupiter in Gemini · 14°55′ · house 6 · retrograde♃℞14°Saturn in Taurus · 22°43′ · house 5 · retrograde♄℞22°Uranus in Taurus · 27°13′ · house 5 · retrograde♅℞27°Neptune in Virgo · 29°50′ · house 9♆29°Pluto in Leo · 5°24′ · house 8 · retrograde♇℞5°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCap 16°27′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCnc 16°27′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCSco 7°05′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICTau 7°05′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCapricorn
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 1.4° orb

    Maurice’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • SunsquareNeptuneapplying · 2.5° orb

    Maurice’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • UranustrineNeptuneseparating · 2.6° orb

    Maurice’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • VenustrineJupiterapplying · 3.7° orb

  • MercurysquareNeptuneapplying · 3.9° orb

  • SaturnconjunctionUranusseparating · 4.5° orb

  • MarssextileJupiterseparating · 4.7° orb

  • MoonsquareMarsapplying · 5.8° orb

  • VenusoppositionPlutoseparating · 5.8° orb

  • MercurytrineMarsseparating · 6.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 14°08′ · House 8

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 26°17′ · House 1

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 29°57′ · House 11

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 27°27′ · House 5

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 1°56′ · House 6

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Neptune 0.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.2°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.1°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 2.4°
  • Eros opposition Uranus 2.7°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 2.9°

Maurice’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Moon; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars6 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Maurice’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun quincunx Uranus 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
  • Moon quincunx Jupiter 1.1°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.3°
  • Sun biquintile Saturn 1.4°
  • Moon sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°

Maurice’s houses

Maurice’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CapricornSaturn in Taurus, house 5Moonself, body, how you arrive
2AquariusUranus in Taurus, house 5Venusmoney, possessions, self-worth
3PiscesNeptune in Virgo, house 9emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AriesMars in Aries, house 4Marshome, family, roots
5TaurusVenus in Aquarius, house 2Saturn, Uranuscreativity, romance, play
6GeminiMercury in Sagittarius, house 12Jupiterwork, habits, health
7CancerMoon in Capricorn, house 1emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8LeoSun in Sagittarius, house 12Plutoshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9VirgoMercury in Sagittarius, house 12Neptunebelief, travel, higher learning
10LibraVenus in Aquarius, house 2emptycareer, reputation, public life
11ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 8emptyfriends, community, the future
12SagittariusJupiter in Gemini, house 6Sun, Mercurythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Maurice’s cards

Computed from December 19, 1941. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Storyteller

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Maurice’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1295870 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Eriik, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Maurice White at Wikipedia, mauricewhite.com, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maurice White.

Quick answers about Maurice White’s chart

What zodiac sign was Maurice White?
Maurice White was a Sagittarius: born December 19, 1941, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
What was Maurice White's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 19, 1941 birth.
What time was Maurice White born?
08:28 local time in Memphis, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Maurice White's rising sign?
Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 08:28 birth time in Memphis, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Maurice White's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Maurice White's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 14°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Maurice White's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 1°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Maurice White's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Moon; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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