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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Mavis
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 1893
1927
its peak year
The SSA recorded 389 American girls named Mavis in 1939: 314th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mavis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mavis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Mavis apart
The Kennedy Center Honors came in 2016, when Mavis Staples was 77.
Study took Mavis Staples to Paul Robeson High School.
Mavis Staples was 11 when the work began in 1950.
On the family side, Mavis Staples was born to Pops Staples.
Wikipedia files Mavis Staples under The Staple Singers members, Paisley Park Records artists and Stax Records artists.
Nikola Tesla (1856) and Alice Munro (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Paul Robeson High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Kennedy Center Honors (2016), Order of Lincoln (2021) and Libera Award for Best Blues Record (2020)
- Nominated for
- Americana Award for Artist of the Year
- Working from
- 1950
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 23
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. Working below.
Where Mavis sits
Six lines
Mavis’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Mavis Staples
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 15.1° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
The Moon, 38% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
How unusual Mavis's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · Mars retrograde · 2 planets 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMarssquareSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.1° to 6.1° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.7° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 12°31′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 14°59′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 2°03′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 4°47′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 22°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Mavis’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Mavis’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
More people like Mavis
Other musicians
- Thelonious Monk1917
- Flavor Flav1959
- George Michael1963
- Melanie Brown1975
- Marvin Gaye1939
- Ramona Singer1956
Born in United States
- Frank BidartAmerican poet
- Carl DennisAmerican writer
- Ellen Taaffe ZwilichAmerican composer
- Lee HartwellAmerican biologist
- Stephen Dunnpoet
- Valerie HarperAmerican actress
More charts like Mavis’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Maya HawkeAmerican actress
- Tess HollidayAmerican plus-size model
- Toni GarrnGerman model
Born in Rabbit years
- George C. ScottAmerican actor, film director and producer
- Jack OakieAmerican actor
- Kathryn McGuireAmerican actress
Also born on July 10
- Nikola Tesla1856
- Alice Munro1931
- Jessica Simpson1980
- Sofía Vergara1972
- Golshifteh Farahani1983
- Isabela Merced2001
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Thomas RavenelAmerican politician
- Ryan O'NealAmerican actor
- Chord OverstreetAmerican actor, singer and musician
Other Cancer Rabbit charts
- Jack WhiteAmerican musician
- Jon JonesAmerican mixed martial arts fighter
- Lisa RinnaAmerican actress
- Folorunso AlakijaNigerian businessperson and philanthropist
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Jason NashAmerican actor, writer, director, comedian, podcaster, and YouTube personality
- Francesca FaragoCanadian influencer and reality TV actress
- Lauren GiraldoAmerican social media personality
- Henry SamueliAmerican businessman
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Alix EarleAmerican social media personality
- Oliver HudsonAmerican actor
- CeeLo GreenAmerican singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and record producer
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Mavis’s cards
Computed from July 10, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mavis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q441742 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Mavis Staples's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mavis Staples's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
