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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dog, with 
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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.
Mother’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mother sits
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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.
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Mother Teresa in 15 seconds
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. 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.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Mother Teresa, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° 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.
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
Mother’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineSaturn6.1° to 6.7° orb
Mother’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.7° to 6.9° orb
Mother’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 0°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Mother absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 23°10′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Mother looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosSagittarius 7°38′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Mother attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaLibra 4°35′ (moves 0.39° 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. Mother is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 17°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
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. Mother 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. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Mother’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Mother 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 Mother’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, 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 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.
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mother Teresa, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Mother’s cards
Every card is computed from August 26, 1910, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Mother Teresa, 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
Mother’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q30547, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog.
- 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 time was Mother Teresa 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 was Mother Teresa's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the August 26, 1910 birth date.
- What was Mother Teresa's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 26, 1910 birth date.
- 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.
