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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Shannen
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.
How common is the name Shannen in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~2,071
Americans share it since 1961
1993
its peak year
In 1971, 29 American girls and 8 boys were registered Shannen — 2,582nd among girls and 3,913th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Shannen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Shannen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1971, 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 Shannen apart
The Bravo Otto came in 1992, when Shannen Doherty was 21.
Study took Shannen Doherty to Young Actors Space and Los Ángeles Baptist High School.
Shannen Doherty was 10 when the work began in 1981.
Cause of death is recorded as breast cancer.
Shannen Doherty was married Kurt Iswarienko and Ashley Hamilton.
Nicholas Brendon 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.
- Educated at
- Young Actors Space and Los Ángeles Baptist High School
- Awards
- Bravo Otto (1992)
- Nominated for
- Young Artist Awards
- Working from
- 1981
- Cause of death
- breast cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 63
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. Working below.
Where Shannen sits
Six lines
Shannen’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Memphis on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Memphis at 16:16, Shannen Doherty’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Memphis that night
Computed for 35.15°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Memphis at the birth hour: Elnath of Taurus, within 7.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Memphis sits at 35.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −54.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Memphis on any night.
The Moon, 96% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat -26° below the horizon.
What Shannen's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 申.
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · Five planets 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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Shannen Doherty's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time.
What Aries means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
JupiterconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 3.1° orb
SunsquareMarsseparating · 3.8° orb
VenussextileSaturnapplying · 4.5° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 5.0° orb
MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 5.9° orb
SaturntrinePlutoapplying · 6.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironAries 10°32′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 24°42′ · House 9
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 5°00′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 4°57′ · House 12
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 24°40′ · House 1
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Shannen’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Shannen’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.
- 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
| 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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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 and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Memphis sits at 35.1°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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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Shannen’s cards
Computed from April 12, 1971. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Shannen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q207598 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Shannen Doherty.
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.
- 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.
- What was Shannen Doherty's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
