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Naya Rivera

Naya Rivera (born January 12, 1987, Valencia, United States, 13:56; died 2020), was an American actress and singer. Rivera is best remembered for Step Up: High Water, The Royal Family and Glee. Rivera's honours include Giffoni Film Festival, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series and TV Land Award.

Naya Rivera’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Naya Rivera’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Naya in the U.S.?

#813

US rank in 2025

~6,563

Americans share it since 1974

2021

its peak year

US records hold Naya from 1974 onward, though not for 1987 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2021 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Naya’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on N (5) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Naya’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1986, 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 Naya apart

Glee, Step Up: High Water and The Royal Family. That is the work the name is attached to.

Study took Naya Rivera to Valencia High School and New York Film Academy.

The record gives drowning as the cause, and Forest Lawn Memorial Park as the resting place.

On the family side, Naya Rivera was married Ryan Dorsey.

On Wikipedia the categories read Actresses from Santa Clarita, California, American immigrant rights activists and Accidental deaths in California.

Deena Nicole Cortese shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Known for
Glee, Step Up: High Water and The Royal Family
Educated at
Valencia High School and New York Film Academy
Instruments
voice
Awards
Giffoni Film Festival (2013), American Music Award for Top Soundtrack (2010) and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2010)
Nominated for
Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series - Leading Young Actress
Working from
1991
Cause of death
drowning
Buried at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English and Spanish
Wikipedia editions
54

What the chart says

Naya, according to the stars

Core essence

Naya is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Naya 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Naya processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Naya needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Naya wants to be loved

Naya wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Naya and watch them fall for you again.

How Naya creates

How Naya makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Naya creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Naya 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Naya is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Naya gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Naya's birth date. Working below.

Where Naya sits

Six lines

Naya’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Naya

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Naya

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Naya

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Naya

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Naya

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Naya

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Naya Rivera

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Valencia on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Naya’s birth-sky starAljanahwarm orange · CygnusAljanah, in Cygnus. A warm orange star, 81° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Aljanah →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 26.5° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

Read from the sky above Valencia at 13:56, Naya Rivera’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Valencia that night

Computed for 34.39°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Valencia at the birth hour: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 9.0° of the exact zenith.

Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Valencia sits at 34.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Valencia at all: they sit past the −55.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun -28° below the horizon, Moon down and 96% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Valencia, United States
Lived in
Los Angeles

Wikidata records Los Angeles as Naya Rivera's home, against Valencia as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Lake Piru, Ventura County in 2020.

Against Valencia, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as supportive for this chart: 66 of 100, 37th of 163 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Anchorage, United States, at 100.

Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.

What Naya's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Enforcer 廉貞, The Minister 天相 in 午

Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 2/4

Sacral authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Capricorn · T-square onto Mars · No retrogrades at all

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Naya Rivera's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Tiger

Big heart, short fuse.

Naya Rivera was born on January 12, 1987, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 11

Receives more than it reasons.

Naya Rivera's birth date, January 12, 1987, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Naya’s chart

Naya’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.1° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 2.3° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.6° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.8° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.9° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.6° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 4.1° orbSun in Capricorn · 22°10′ · house 8☉22°Moon in Gemini · 28°20′ · house 1☽28°Mercury in Capricorn · 22°17′ · house 8☿22°Venus in Sagittarius · 5°21′ · house 7♀5°Mars in Aries · 3°05′ · house 11♂3°Jupiter in Pisces · 19°32′ · house 10♃19°Saturn in Sagittarius · 16°40′ · house 7♄16°Uranus in Sagittarius · 24°17′ · house 7♅24°Neptune in Capricorn · 6°08′ · house 8♆6°Pluto in Scorpio · 9°43′ · house 6♇9°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCGem 9°57′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCSgr 9°57′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAqr 19°53′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLeo 19°53′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantGemini
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 0.1° orb

    Naya’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • VenustrineMarsseparating · 2.3° orb

    Naya’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • SunsextileJupiterseparating · 2.6° orb

    Naya’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 2.8° orb

  • JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 2.9° orb

  • MarssquareNeptuneapplying · 3.1° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 3.6° orb

  • MoonoppositionUranusseparating · 4.1° orb

  • MoonsquareMarsapplying · 4.7° orb

  • JupitersquareUranusapplying · 4.7° orb

  • SaturnconjunctionUranusapplying · 7.6° orb

  • MoonoppositionNeptuneapplying · 7.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Naya’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 16°46′ · House 1

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 9°50′ · House 7

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosPisces 18°22′ · House 10

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 20°52′ · House 1

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°41′ · House 2

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Saturn 0.1°
  • Ceres opposition Ascendant 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.4°
  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.2°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.3°
  • Eros square Saturn 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.6°
  • Chiron square Jupiter 2.8°

Naya’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Moon; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter9 pts

    disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Naya’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Moon, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun quintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Mercury quintile Pluto 0.6°
  • Mars biquintile Pluto 0.6°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Sun quintile Mars 1.1°
  • Mercury quintile Mars 1.2°
  • Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.9°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 2.0°

Naya’s houses

Naya’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1GeminiMercury in Capricorn, house 8Moonself, body, how you arrive
2CancerMoon in Gemini, house 1emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3LeoSun in Capricorn, house 8emptymind, siblings, the local world
4VirgoMercury in Capricorn, house 8emptyhome, family, roots
5LibraVenus in Sagittarius, house 7emptycreativity, romance, play
6ScorpioPluto in Scorpio, house 6Plutowork, habits, health
7SagittariusJupiter in Pisces, house 10Venus, Saturn, Uranuspartnership, marriage, open rivals
8CapricornSaturn in Sagittarius, house 7Sun, Mercury, Neptuneshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AquariusUranus in Sagittarius, house 7emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10PiscesNeptune in Capricorn, house 8Jupitercareer, reputation, public life
11AriesMars in Aries, house 11Marsfriends, community, the future
12TaurusVenus in Sagittarius, house 7emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Naya’s family here

One relative of Naya Rivera also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as Naya

Deena Nicole Cortese was born on January 12, 1987 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Valencia sits at 34.4°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Naya’s cards

Computed from January 12, 1987. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The High Priestess

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Naya’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229364 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Hispanic Lifestyle, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Naya Rivera at Wikipedia, nayarivera.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Naya Rivera.

Quick answers about Naya Rivera’s chart

What zodiac sign was Naya Rivera?
Naya Rivera was a Capricorn: born January 12, 1987, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What was Naya Rivera's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 12, 1987 birth.
What time was Naya Rivera born?
13:56 local time in Valencia, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Naya Rivera's rising sign?
Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 13:56 birth time in Valencia, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Naya Rivera's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Naya Rivera's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 16°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Naya Rivera's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 5°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Naya Rivera's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Moon; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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