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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Maurice’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, 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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Maurice White at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Maurice White's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Maurice White was born on December 19, 1941, which falls in a Metal 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 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Maurice White's birth date, December 19, 1941, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Maurice’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Maurice White's timed chart: Moon in the 1st house and Mars in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Maurice White's timed chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Water.
- Maurice White combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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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
Maurice’s affections flow straight into their growth.
MercurysquareNeptuneapplying · 3.9° orb
Maurice’s mind grinds against their imagination.
SaturnconjunctionUranusseparating · 4.5° orb
Maurice’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
MarssextileJupiterseparating · 4.7° orb
Maurice’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonsquareMarsapplying · 5.8° orb
Maurice’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenusoppositionPlutoseparating · 5.8° orb
Maurice’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MercurytrineMarsseparating · 6.3° orb
Maurice’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 14°08′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Maurice performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 26°17′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Maurice caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosScorpio 29°57′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Maurice is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 27°27′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Maurice is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 1°56′ · House 6
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Maurice that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- 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°
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°).
Maurice’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Moon; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Maurice 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 Maurice’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Taurus, house 5 | Moon | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Taurus, house 5 | Venus | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 9 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Aries, house 4 | Mars | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 2 | Saturn, Uranus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 12 | Jupiter | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Sagittarius, house 12 | Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 12 | Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 2 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 8 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Gemini, house 6 | Sun, Mercury | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Maurice’s cards
Every card is computed from December 19, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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 data comes from
Maurice’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1295870, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Eriik, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
- 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 from the December 19, 1941 birth date.
- What was Maurice White's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 14°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 19, 1941 birth time.
- 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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