Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters (born August 31, 1938, Kinloch, United States), aged 88, is an United States Representative from California since 1991. Waters has held office as Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and supervisor. Waters's honours include Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo, Time 100 and honorary degree.
Maxine Waters’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Tiger, with 
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Maxine Waters’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Maxine in the U.S.?
#497
US rank in 2025
~115,989
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Maxine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Maxine apart
Richard Gere (1949) and Queen Rania of Jordan (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Maxine, according to the stars
Core essence
Maxine notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Maxine is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Maxine wants to be loved
Maxine wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Maxine gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Maxine creates
How Maxine makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Maxine creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Maxine 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 6 is the nurturer. Maxine is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Maxine fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Maxine'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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Maxine Waters's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 31, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Maxine Waters was born on August 31, 1938, 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 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Maxine Waters's birth date, August 31, 1938, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Maxine’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maxine Waters' date-only chart is Mars opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Maxine Waters combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Maxine’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Maxine Waters, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableMoonsquareMars0.0° to 6.5° orb
Maxine’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMoonsquareJupiter0.0° to 6.5° orb
Maxine’s feelings grind against their growth.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.1° to 0.8° orb
Maxine’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussextileMars1.7° to 2.1° orb
Maxine’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenustrineJupiter1.8° to 2.9° orb
Maxine’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.6° orb
Maxine’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.2° to 6.9° orb
Maxine’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter5.3° to 6.0° orb
Maxine’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.4° to 6.8° orb
Maxine’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn5.8° to 6.9° orb
Maxine’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Maxine’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 8°23′ (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. Maxine is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 26°23′ (moves 0.14° 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. Maxine is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosScorpio 15°43′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
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. Maxine is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaLibra 18°06′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Maxine is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 17°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Maxine is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for 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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.4°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.5°
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.8°
- Ceres square Mars 0.9°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.9°
- Eros opposition Uranus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 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°).
Maxine’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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Maxine is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Maxine’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.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maxine Waters, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Maxine’s cards
Every card is computed from August 31, 1938, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Maxine Waters, 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
Maxine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q461727, 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 House of Representatives photographic studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maxine Waters at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and YouTube.
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 Maxine Waters.
Quick answers about Maxine Waters’s chart
- How old is Maxine Waters?
- Maxine Waters is 88 years old, born August 31, 1938 in Kinloch, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Maxine Waters?
- Maxine Waters is a Virgo: born August 31, 1938, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger.
- What is Maxine Waters's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 31, 1938 birth.
- What time was Maxine Waters 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 Maxine Waters's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the August 31, 1938 birth date.
- What is Maxine Waters's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 31, 1938 birth date.
- Where is Maxine Waters's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Maxine Waters's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
