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Maury Povich

Maury Povich (born January 17, 1939, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 87, is an American television personality.

Maury Povich’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Maury Povich’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Pioneer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#8678

US rank in 2025

~2,770

Americans share it since 1880

1963

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Maury’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

4 · 1 · 3

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Maury apart

Muhammad Ali (1942) and Michelle Obama (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Maury, according to the stars

Core essence

Maury is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Maury 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.

How Maury wants to be loved

Maury 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 Maury and watch them fall for you again.

How Maury creates

How Maury makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Maury builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Maury is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Maury is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Maury runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Maury's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Maury sits

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Maury’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Maury

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Maury

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

PrivateExpressive
Maury

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Maury

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

PracticalVisionary
Maury

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Maury

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Maury Povich's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 17, 1939, 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.

Earth Tiger

Big heart, short fuse.

Maury Povich was born on January 17, 1939, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Maury Povich's birth date, January 17, 1939, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Maury’s chart

Maury’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Maury Povich, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.4° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.7° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.5° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.5° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.5° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.8° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.9° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.9° orbSun in Capricorn · 26°42′☉26°Moon in Sagittarius · 25°39′☽25°Mercury in Capricorn · 7°22′☿7°Venus in Sagittarius · 10°34′♀10°Mars in Scorpio · 22°50′♂22°Jupiter in Pisces · 3°52′♃3°Saturn in Aries · 12°15′♄12°Uranus in Taurus · 13°51′ · retrograde♅℞13°Neptune in Virgo · 23°12′ · retrograde♆℞23°Pluto in Leo · 0°28′ · retrograde♇℞0°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
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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.

  • stableMarssextileNeptune0.1° to 0.7° orb

    Maury’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn1.3° to 2.1° orb

    Maury’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter2.9° to 4.1° orb

    Maury’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb

    Maury’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto3.2° to 4.3° orb

    Maury’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunsextileMars3.7° to 4.1° orb

    Maury’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn4.2° to 5.6° orb

    Maury’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 2.4° to 14.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurytrineUranusorb from 5.8° to 7.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleVenussquareJupiterorb from 6.4° to 7.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 6.5° to 17.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

Maury’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 5°51′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Maury is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 14°44′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Maury is read as someone who shows care by providing.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 6°51′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Maury is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 15°24′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Maury is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 3°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Maury at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

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.

  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 0.9°
  • Chiron opposition Mercury 1.5°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.6°

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°).

Maury’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. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

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

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Maury 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 Maury’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.

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. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Mercury semi-square Mars 0.5°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maury Povich, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Maury’s cards

Every card is computed from January 17, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Maury Povich, 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

Maury’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1354302, 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 JessicaGold from Philadelphia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Maury Povich at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Maury Povich.

Quick answers about Maury Povich’s chart

How old is Maury Povich?
Maury Povich is 87 years old, born January 17, 1939 in Washington, D.C., United States.
What zodiac sign is Maury Povich?
Maury Povich is a Capricorn: born January 17, 1939, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger.
What is Maury Povich's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 17, 1939 birth.
What time was Maury Povich 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 Maury Povich's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the January 17, 1939 birth date.
What is Maury Povich's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 17, 1939 birth date.
Where is Maury Povich's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Maury Povich's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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