Sally Ride
Sally Ride (born May 26, 1951, Los Angeles, United States, 08:11; died 2012), was an American astronaut and physicist. Ride's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, United States Astronaut Hall of Fame and National Aviation Hall of Fame.
Sally Ride’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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Sally Ride’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Sally in the U.S.?
#1158
US rank in 2025
~205,876
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Sally’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Lilac · Silver
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What the chart says
Sally, according to the stars
Core essence
Sally is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Sally needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Sally needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Sally needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Sally wants to be loved
Sally wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Sally gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Sally creates
How Sally 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. Sally 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: Sally is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Sally is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Sally scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Sally's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Sally sits
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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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Sally Ride's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Sally Ride was born on May 26, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Better with someone at their back.
Sally Ride's birth date, May 26, 1951, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Sally’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Sally Ride's timed chart: Venus in the 1st house, Jupiter in the 10th house, Uranus in the 1st house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Sally Ride's timed chart is Venus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Sally Ride combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Sally’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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
VenussquareNeptuneseparating · 0.4° orb
Sally’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
JupitersquareUranusapplying · 0.4° orb
Sally’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.5° orb
Sally’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunconjunctionMarsseparating · 1.0° orb
Sally’s core identity and drive act as one.
MoonoppositionPlutoseparating · 1.6° orb
Sally’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 2.2° orb
Sally’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercurysextileUranusseparating · 2.2° orb
Sally’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunsextileJupiterapplying · 2.6° orb
Sally’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
MarssextileJupiterapplying · 3.7° orb
Sally’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Sally’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 1°26′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Sally is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresPisces 11°11′ · House 9
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Sally is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosPisces 19°46′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Sally is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaPisces 15°03′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Sally needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 25°44′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Sally that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.4°
- Ceres trine Ascendant 2.3°
- Eros trine Venus 2.3°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.4°
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°).
Sally’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Sally is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Sally’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Moon biquintile Saturn 0.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.8°
- Sun quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
- Moon quincunx Venus 1.7°
Sally’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Aquarius, house 8 | Venus, Uranus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Gemini, house 12 | Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Taurus, house 11 | Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 1 | Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aries, house 10 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Virgo, house 3 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Cancer, house 1 | Moon | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Gemini, house 12 | Jupiter | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 1 | Mercury | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Taurus, house 11 | Sun, Mars | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Sally’s cards
Every card is computed from May 26, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Sally’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q49285, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 NASA; retouched by Coffeeandcrumbs, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sally Ride at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
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Quick answers about Sally Ride’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sally Ride?
- Sally Ride was a Gemini: born May 26, 1951, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rabbit.
- What was Sally Ride's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 26, 1951 birth.
- What time was Sally Ride born?
- 08:11 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Sally Ride's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 08:11 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Sally Ride's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the May 26, 1951 birth date.
- What was Sally Ride's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 1°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 26, 1951 birth time.
- Where was Sally Ride's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 25°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sally Ride's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
