Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939, Chicago, United States), aged 87, is an American singer. Staples's honours include Order of Lincoln, Kennedy Center Honors and Libera Award for Best Blues Record.
Mavis Staples’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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Mavis Staples’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Mavis in the U.S.?
#561
US rank in 2025
~23,150
Americans share it since 1880
1927
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Mavis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Mavis, according to the stars
Core essence
Mavis feels the room before entering it. The core of Mavis is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Mavis, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Mavis wants to be loved
Mavis wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Mavis gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Mavis creates
How Mavis makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Mavis creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Mavis 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Mavis is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Mavis goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Mavis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mavis sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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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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.
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Mavis Staples's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 10, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Mavis Staples was born on July 10, 1939, which falls in a Earth 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 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Mavis Staples's birth date, July 10, 1939, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Mavis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mavis Staples' date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mavis Staples combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Mavis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Mavis Staples, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.1° orb
Mavis’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.4° orb
Mavis’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.1° to 2.3° orb
Mavis’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionPluto2.0° to 2.2° orb
Mavis’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssquareSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb
Mavis’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsextileNeptune2.9° to 3.9° orb
Mavis’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileUranus3.0° to 3.9° orb
Mavis’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.1° to 6.1° orb
Mavis’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareJupiter5.7° to 6.8° orb
Mavis’s affections grind against their growth.
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Mavis’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.
⚷ ChironCancer 12°31′ (moves 0.10° 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. Mavis is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresCancer 14°59′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Mavis is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosGemini 2°03′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Mavis is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 4°47′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Mavis is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 22°28′ (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 Mavis 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.
- Eros trine Mars 0.7°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.5°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 2.5°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 2.8°
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°).
Mavis’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. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mercury, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Mavis is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Mavis’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 Saturn · Mars, Pluto, SaturnAn 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.
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mavis Staples, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Mavis’s cards
Every card is computed from July 10, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Mavis Staples, 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
Mavis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q441742, 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 Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mavis Staples at Wikipedia, mavisstaples.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
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 Mavis Staples.
Quick answers about Mavis Staples’s chart
- How old is Mavis Staples?
- Mavis Staples is 87 years old, born July 10, 1939 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mavis Staples?
- Mavis Staples is a Cancer: born July 10, 1939, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit.
- What is Mavis Staples's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 10, 1939 birth.
- What time was Mavis Staples 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 Mavis Staples's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 10, 1939 birth date.
- What is Mavis Staples's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 10, 1939 birth date.
- Where is Mavis Staples's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mavis Staples's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
