Shannen Doherty
Shannen Doherty (born April 12, 1971, Memphis, United States, 16:16; died 2024), was an American actress. Doherty is best remembered for BH90210, Our House and Heathers. Doherty's honours include Bravo Otto.
Shannen Doherty’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Pig, with 
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Shannen Doherty’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
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~2,071
Americans share it since 1880
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Shannen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Shannen, according to the stars
Core essence
Shannen 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 Shannen 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Shannen feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Shannen needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Shannen wants to be loved
Shannen wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Shannen, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Shannen creates
How Shannen 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. Shannen 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: Shannen is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Shannen is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Shannen does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Shannen's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Shannen Doherty's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Shannen Doherty was born on April 12, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Shannen Doherty's birth date, April 12, 1971, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Shannen’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Shannen Doherty's timed chart: Venus in the 7th house, Jupiter in the 4th house, Neptune in the 4th house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Shannen Doherty's timed chart is Moon trine Venus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Shannen Doherty combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Shannen’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
MoontrineVenusapplying · 1.5° orb
Shannen’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
VenussextileMarsapplying · 1.5° orb
Shannen’s affections open doors for their drive.
MoonsextileMarsapplying · 2.9° orb
Shannen’s feelings open doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MarstrineSaturnapplying · 3.0° orb
Shannen’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
JupiterconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 3.1° orb
Shannen’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SunsquareMarsseparating · 3.8° orb
Shannen’s core identity grinds against their drive.
VenussextileSaturnapplying · 4.5° orb
Shannen’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 5.0° orb
Shannen’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 5.9° orb
Shannen’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SaturntrinePlutoapplying · 6.1° orb
Shannen’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Shannen’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.
⚷ ChironAries 10°32′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Shannen may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresTaurus 24°42′ · House 9
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Shannen is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosTaurus 5°00′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Shannen wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 4°57′ · House 12
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Shannen at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 24°40′ · House 1
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Shannen exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.5°
- Ceres trine Ascendant 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Ascendant 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.7°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.3°
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°).
Shannen’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♂ Mars9.5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Shannen is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Shannen’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.
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.5°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.5°
Shannen’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 | Virgo | Mercury in Taurus, house 9 | Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 7 | Uranus | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 1 | Moon | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 4 | Jupiter, Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Taurus, house 9 | Mars | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 2 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 4 | Venus | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 5 | Sun | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 7 | Mercury, Saturn | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Taurus, house 9 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Scorpio, house 3 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Aries, house 8 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Shannen’s family here
2 relatives of Shannen Doherty also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
Born the same day as Shannen
Nicholas Brendon was born on April 12, 1971 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Shannen’s cards
Every card is computed from April 12, 1971, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Shannen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q207598, 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 Wilson Cleveland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Shannen Doherty at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
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 Shannen Doherty’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Shannen Doherty?
- Shannen Doherty was an Aries: born April 12, 1971, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig.
- What was Shannen Doherty's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 12, 1971 birth.
- What time was Shannen Doherty born?
- 16:16 local time in Memphis, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Shannen Doherty's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 16:16 birth time in Memphis, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Shannen Doherty's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the April 12, 1971 birth date.
- What was Shannen Doherty's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 12, 1971 birth time.
- Where was Shannen Doherty's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 24°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Shannen Doherty's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9.5 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
