Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara (born April 17, 1985, Bedford, United States), aged 41, is an American actress. Notable films include The Social Network, Her and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Mara's honours include Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.
Rooney Mara’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Wood Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Rooney
Rooney Mara’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Rooney in the U.S.?
#2235
US rank in 2025
~1,529
Americans share it since 1943
2024
its peak year
US records hold Rooney from 1943 onward, though not for 1985 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2024 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rooney’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
1
Soul Urge · independence
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Rooney’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
The record
What sets Rooney apart
The classrooms behind this chart: Fox Lane High School and George Washington University.
The working life starts in 2005, at 20.
On the family side, Rooney Mara was born to Kathleen McNulty Mara and Chris Mara.
Victoria Beckham (1974) and Jennifer Garner (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Fox Lane High School, George Washington University and New York University
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Academy Award for Best Actress
- Working from
- 2005
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
What the chart says
Rooney, according to the stars
Core essence
Rooney leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Rooney is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Rooney wants to be loved
Rooney wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Rooney creates
How Rooney makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Rooney creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Rooney is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Rooney is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Rooney is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Rooney's birth date. Working below.
Where Rooney sits
Six lines
Rooney’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Rooney Mara
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bedford 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 Bedford that night
Computed for 41.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bedford was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 84.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.2°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 Bedford at all: they sit past the −48.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 24° below the horizon, Moon down and 4% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Rooney's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · Five planets retrograde · Venus 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Rooney Mara's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 17, 1985, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Wood Ox
Wood OxReliable to the bone.
Rooney Mara was born on April 17, 1985, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Rooney Mara's birth date, April 17, 1985, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Rooney’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rooney Mara's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Rooney Mara combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Rooney’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Pisces or Aries 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
Rooney’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.2° to 0.5° orb
Rooney’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.5° to 3.2° orb
Rooney’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune3.4° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto5.4° to 6.4° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.5° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.5° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.7° to 12.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Rooney’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 5°40′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 8°05′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 28°04′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 3°43′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 24°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.7°
Rooney’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Rooney’s chart
Stellium in Aries · 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.
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.8°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.9°
Rooney’s family here
One relative of Rooney Mara also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Born in Ox years
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- Robert D. McFaddenAmerican journalist
Also born on April 17
- Victoria Beckham1974
- Jennifer Garner1972
- J. P. Morgan1837
- Olivia Hussey1951
- Maynard James Keenan1964
- Phoebe Dynevor1995
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
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- Quannah ChasinghorseAmerican model and activist (born 2002)
- Kaylee McKeownAustralian swimmer
Other Aries Ox charts
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- Robert CampbellAmerican architect and writer
- Lanford WilsonAmerican playwright
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Other Radiant Strategists
- Bogoljub MarkovićSerbian basketball player (born 2005)
- Tyrese MaxeyAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Trey Murphy IIIAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Bub CarringtonAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Jason MesnickReality Show Participant
- Cindy McCaincommunity organizer
- James MiddletonEnglish entrepreneur and younger brother of Catherine, Princess of Wales
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Rooney’s cards
Computed from April 17, 1985. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rooney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q228766 (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 Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rooney Mara 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 Rooney Mara.
Quick answers about Rooney Mara’s chart
- How old is Rooney Mara?
- Rooney Mara is 41 years old, born April 17, 1985 in Bedford, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Rooney Mara?
- Rooney Mara is an Aries: born April 17, 1985, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Rooney Mara's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 17, 1985 birth.
- What is Rooney Mara's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Rooney Mara's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Rooney Mara's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rooney Mara's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
