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Óscar Arias Sánchez

Óscar Arias Sánchez (born September 13, 1941, San José, Costa Rica), aged 85, is President of Costa Rica (1986–1990, 2006–2010). Sánchez has held office as President of the United Nations Security Council. Sánchez's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Order of Juan Mora Fernández and Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.

Óscar Arias Sánchez’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Óscar Arias Sánchez’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Storyteller

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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

What Óscar’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

6

Soul Urge · being needed

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on O (6) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Óscar’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia

Lavender · Lilac · Silver

The record

What sets Óscar apart

Roald Dahl (1916) and Niall Horan (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Óscar, according to the stars

Core essence

Óscar 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 Óscar is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Óscar 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 Óscar needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Óscar wants to be loved

Óscar wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Óscar gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Óscar creates

How Óscar 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. Óscar 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: Óscar 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Óscar 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 Óscar leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Óscar 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 Óscar's birth date. Working below.

Where Óscar sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Óscar

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Óscar

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Óscar

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Óscar

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Óscar

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Óscar

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Óscar’s birth-night reference starEnifwarm orange · PegasusEnif, in Pegasus. A warm orange star, 78.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Enif →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 15.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over San José that night

Computed for 9.93°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at San José at 9 p.m. that evening: Enif of Pegasus, within 11.5° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 81 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 9.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The Moon, 47% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.

How unusual Óscar's chart is

Chart pattern score

45 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · No Water planets · Mars retrograde

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

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

Óscar Arias Sánchez's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 13, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Metal Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Óscar Arias Sánchez was born on September 13, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Óscar Arias Sánchez's birth date, September 13, 1941, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Óscar’s chart

Óscar’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.2° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.5° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 0.7° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.4° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.8° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.1° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.2° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.5° orbSun in Virgo · 20°32′☉20°Moon in Gemini · 19°50′☽19°Mercury in Libra · 10°28′☿10°Venus in Libra · 28°19′♀28°Mars in Aries · 23°22′ · retrograde♂℞23°Jupiter in Gemini · 20°18′♃20°Saturn in Taurus · 28°33′ · retrograde♄℞28°Uranus in Gemini · 0°20′ · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Virgo · 27°10′♆27°Pluto in Leo · 5°10′♇5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsquareMoon0.0° to 6.2° orb

    Óscar’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Óscar’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 6.4° orb

    Óscar’s feelings and growth act as one.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune1.4° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus1.8° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter3.0° to 3.2° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionMars4.3° to 5.6° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.2° to 7.1° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 10°14′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 27°19′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 10°41′ (moves 0.90° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 8°02′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 21°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Mercury 0.2°
  • Ceres square Neptune 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.6°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Hygiea trine Mercury 2.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.9°

Óscar’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Óscar’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.1°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 0.2°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 0.4°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 2.0°

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Óscar’s cards

Computed from September 13, 1941. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Óscar’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q49344 (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 MadriCR, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Óscar Arias Sánchez.

Quick answers about Óscar Arias Sánchez’s chart

How old is Óscar Arias Sánchez?
Óscar Arias Sánchez is 85 years old, born September 13, 1941 in San José, Costa Rica.
What zodiac sign is Óscar Arias Sánchez?
Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Virgo: born September 13, 1941, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Óscar Arias Sánchez's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 13, 1941 birth.
What is Óscar Arias Sánchez's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Óscar Arias Sánchez's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Óscar Arias Sánchez's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Óscar Arias Sánchez's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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