Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928, St. Louis, United States, 14:10; died 2014), was an American poet, author, and civil rights activist. Angelou is best remembered for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, On the Pulse of Morning and Even the Stars Look Lonesome. Angelou's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording and National Women's Hall of Fame.
Maya Angelou’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
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Maya Angelou’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Maya in the U.S.?
#62
US rank in 2025
~123,750
Americans share it since 1880
2006
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Maya’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
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What the chart says
Maya, according to the stars
Core essence
Maya leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Maya is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Maya cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Maya needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Maya wants to be loved
Maya wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Maya, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Maya creates
How Maya 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. Maya 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: Maya is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Maya 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 Maya leads without needing to do it alone.
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. Maya 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 Maya's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Maya sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Maya Angelou's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Maya Angelou's birth date, April 4, 1928, 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 Maya’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Maya Angelou's timed chart: Mars in the 7th house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Maya Angelou's timed chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Maya Angelou combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Maya’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
SunsquarePlutoapplying · 0.2° orb
Maya’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 1.1° orb
Maya’s growth grinds against their depths.
MarsoppositionNeptuneseparating · 1.2° orb
Maya’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SunconjunctionJupiterapplying · 1.3° orb
Maya’s core identity and growth act as one.
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 1.3° orb
Maya’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MercurysquareSaturnseparating · 1.3° orb
Maya’s mind grinds against their discipline.
VenussquareSaturnseparating · 2.6° orb
Maya’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupitertrineSaturnapplying · 3.0° orb
Maya’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunoppositionMoonapplying · 3.5° orb
Maya’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.
MoonsquarePlutoapplying · 3.6° orb
Maya’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SuntrineSaturnapplying · 4.3° orb
Maya’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoonoppositionJupiterapplying · 4.8° orb
Maya’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
MercurytrinePlutoseparating · 5.4° orb
Maya’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
VenustrinePlutoseparating · 6.7° orb
Maya’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoonoppositionUranusseparating · 7.3° orb
Maya’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Maya’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 4°22′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Maya building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresAquarius 27°09′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Maya is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAquarius 12°58′ · House 7
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. Maya is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 21°27′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Maya is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°10′ · House 4
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Maya is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.3°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Eros trine Moon 1.6°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.8°
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°).
Maya’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus; angular in the seventh house; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Libra; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Maya is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Maya’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Jupiter, UranusThree 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Sun, Moon, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Pluto · Moon, Jupiter, PlutoAn 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 semi-square Neptune 0.3°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.3°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Mars 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.9°
Maya’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 | Leo | Sun in Aries, house 9 | Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Virgo | Mercury in Pisces, house 8 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 8 | Moon | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 12 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aries, house 9 | Saturn | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Capricorn | Saturn in Sagittarius, house 5 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 9 | Mars | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Pisces | Neptune in Leo, house 1 | Mercury, Venus | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aries | Mars in Aquarius, house 7 | Sun, Jupiter, Uranus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 8 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Gemini | Mercury in Pisces, house 8 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Cancer | Moon in Libra, house 3 | Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Maya’s cards
Every card is computed from April 4, 1928, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Maya’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19526, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maya Angelou at Wikipedia, mayaangelou.com, IMDb, X 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.
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Quick answers about Maya Angelou’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Maya Angelou?
- Maya Angelou was an Aries: born April 4, 1928, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
- What was Maya Angelou's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 4, 1928 birth.
- What time was Maya Angelou born?
- 14:10 local time in St. Louis, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Maya Angelou's rising sign?
- Leo rising, calculated from the documented 14:10 birth time in St. Louis, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Maya Angelou's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the April 4, 1928 birth date.
- What was Maya Angelou's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 4°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 4, 1928 birth time.
- Where was Maya Angelou's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 14°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Maya Angelou's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
