Nancy Silverton
Nancy Silverton (born January 1, 1954, Los Angeles, United States), aged 72, is an American baker. Silverton's honours include James Beard Foundation Award.
Nancy Silverton’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Nancy
Nancy Silverton’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Nancy in the U.S.?
#967
US rank in 2025
~1,007,393
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1954, Nancy came 9th among girls and 1,027th among boys, carried by 30,270 American girls and 54 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nancy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on N (5) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nancy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1953, 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 Nancy apart
Nancy Silverton took the James Beard Foundation Award in 2014, at 60.
Training came by way of Le Cordon Bleu.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Nancy Silverton: American bakers, École Lenôtre alumni and Chefs from Los Angeles.
Alicia Keys (1981) and Hailee Steinfeld (1996) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Le Cordon Bleu
- Awards
- James Beard Foundation Award (2014)
- Working from
- 1954
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Nancy, according to the stars
Core essence
Nancy is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Nancy is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Nancy wants to be loved
Nancy wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Nancy you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Nancy creates
How Nancy makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Nancy creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Nancy is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Nancy 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Nancy runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Nancy's birth date. Working below.
Where Nancy sits
Six lines
Nancy’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 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.
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 Nancy Silverton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 1.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 9% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.
How unusual Nancy's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · A leaning bowl
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 →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Nancy Silverton's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 1, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Nancy Silverton was born on January 1, 1954, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Nancy Silverton's birth date, January 1, 1954, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Nancy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nancy Silverton's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Nancy Silverton combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Nancy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb
Nancy’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.7° to 1.0° orb
Nancy’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb
Nancy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileSaturn2.8° to 4.0° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn2.9° to 3.8° orb
stableVenussextileMars2.9° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.3° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.5° to 5.0° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.6° to 6.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury7.3° to 7.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Nancy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 21°05′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 8°16′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 21°42′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 26°36′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 11°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Uranus 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.4°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.8°
- Ceres square Sun 2.6°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.8°
Nancy’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Nancy’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 quintile Pluto 0.7°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°
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- Tito JacksonAmerican musician
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Born in Snake years
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- Harold UreyAmerican physical chemist
Also born on January 1
- Alicia Keys1981
- Hailee Steinfeld1996
- Kendrick Lamar1987
- Rivelino1946
- Ludacris1977
- Chad Michael Murray1981
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- Amanda BynesAmerican actress and fashion designer
- Joe JonasAmerican singer, actor and musician
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Nancy’s cards
Computed from January 1, 1954. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nancy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6962984 (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 Siobhan Leachman, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nancy Silverton at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nancy Silverton.
Quick answers about Nancy Silverton’s chart
- How old is Nancy Silverton?
- Nancy Silverton is 72 years old, born January 1, 1954 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Nancy Silverton?
- Nancy Silverton is a Capricorn: born January 1, 1954, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Nancy Silverton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 1, 1954 birth.
- What is Nancy Silverton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Nancy Silverton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Nancy Silverton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Nancy Silverton's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
