Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa (born August 26, 1910, Skopje, North Macedonia; died 1997), was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary. Teresa served as superior general. Teresa's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Order of Merit and Grand Order of Queen Jelena.
Mother Teresa’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Mother
Mother Teresa’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
What Mother’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
22
Soul Urge · legacy
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on M (4) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mother’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1910, 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 Mother apart
Antoine Lavoisier (1743) and Chris Pine (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- Albania and India
- Languages
- Hindi, English and Albanian
What the chart says
Mother, according to the stars
Core essence
Mother 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 Mother is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Mother is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Mother needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Mother wants to be loved
Mother wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Mother openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Mother creates
How Mother makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Mother creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Mother is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Mother is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Mother channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Mother's birth date. Working below.
Where Mother sits
Six lines
Mother’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Mother Teresa
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Skopje 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 Skopje that night
Computed for 42.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Skopje was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 87.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Skopje at all: they sit past the −48.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 59% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 26° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Skopje, North Macedonia
- Lived in
- Skopje
Wikidata records Skopje as Mother Teresa's home, Skopje among them.
The death is recorded at Kolkata, Kolkata district in 1997.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Mother Teresa: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Mother's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · 1 planet 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.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Mother Teresa's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 26, 1910, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Dog
Metal DogLoyal past the point of sense.
Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Mother Teresa's birth date, August 26, 1910, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Mother’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mother Teresa's date-only chart is Uranus opposition Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Mother Teresa combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Mother’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° 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
stableMercurysquarePluto0.8° to 1.9° orb
Mother’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb
Mother’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.6° to 2.8° orb
Mother’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn6.1° to 6.7° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.7° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.9° to 14.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 3.5° to 17.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextilePlutoorb from 4.1° to 5.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Mother’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 0°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 23°10′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 7°38′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 4°35′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 17°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Venus 1.1°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Sun 2.2°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.4°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.9°
Mother’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Mother’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.5°
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Also born on August 26
- Antoine Lavoisier1743
- Chris Pine1980
- Macaulay Culkin1980
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- Keke Palmer1993
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- Andrew Van GinkelAmerican football player (born 1995)
Other Virgo Dog charts
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Mother’s cards
Computed from August 26, 1910. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mother’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q30547 (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 Túrelio, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mother Teresa at Wikipedia, motherteresa.org, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mother Teresa.
Quick answers about Mother Teresa’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mother Teresa?
- Mother Teresa was a Virgo: born August 26, 1910, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Mother Teresa's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 26, 1910 birth.
- What was Mother Teresa's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Mother Teresa's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Mother Teresa's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mother Teresa's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
