Shelley Duvall
Shelley Duvall (born July 7, 1949, Fort Worth, United States; died 2024), was an American actress. Duvall's honours include Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.
Shelley Duvall’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Shelley
Shelley Duvall’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Shelley in the U.S.?
#8280
US rank in 2025
~74,339
Americans share it since 1892
1964
its peak year
In 1949, 1,017 American girls and 29 boys were registered Shelley — 233rd among girls and 1,372nd among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Shelley’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Shelley’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
The record
What sets Shelley apart
Ringo Starr (1940) and Sky Brown (2008) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Shelley, according to the stars
Core essence
Shelley feels the room before entering it. The core of Shelley is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Shelley, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Shelley is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Shelley needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Shelley wants to be loved
Shelley wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Shelley openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Shelley creates
How Shelley makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Shelley creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Shelley 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Shelley 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 Shelley leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Shelley scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Shelley's birth date. Working below.
Where Shelley sits
Six lines
Shelley’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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 Shelley Duvall
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth that night
Computed for 32.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Fort Worth was Izar, in Boötes, 84.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
Fort Worth sits at 32.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −57.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Fort Worth on any night.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon up and 94% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Shelley's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →Shelley Duvall at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Shelley Duvall's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 7, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Shelley Duvall was born on July 7, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Shelley Duvall's birth date, July 7, 1949, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Shelley’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Shelley Duvall's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Shelley Duvall combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Shelley’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Sagittarius 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
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.3° orb
Shelley’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareNeptune2.3° to 3.2° orb
Shelley’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb
Shelley’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextilePluto3.8° to 4.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.8° to 6.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.2° to 7.1° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.6° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.5° to 16.2° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileNeptuneorb from 4.9° to 6.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Shelley’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 3°27′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 7°50′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 17°57′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 17°25′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 9°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.5°
- Eros trine Mars 1.5°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.2°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.7°
Shelley’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Uranus
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Shelley’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.
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.4°
More people like Shelley
Other screenwriters
- Lawrence Kasdan1949
- Martin Short1950
- Ian McEwan1948
- Bill Murray1950
- Jim Varney1949
- Jeffrey Price1949
Born in United States
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- Phyllis SmithAmerican actress
- Tom BerengerAmerican actor (born 1949)
- Richard GereAmerican actor
- Phyllis HymanAmerican rhythm-and-blues singer
- Keith CarradineAmerican actor and singer
More charts like Shelley’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Jarret StollCanadian ice hockey player
- Oliver StarkBritish actor
- Brandon SklenarAmerican actor
Born in Ox years
- Jim CarreyCanadian-American actor and comedian
- Joko Widodo7th President of the Republic of Indonesia
- Jane FondaAmerican actress and activist
Also born on July 7
- Ringo Starr1940
- Sky Brown2008
- Ashton Irwin1994
- Ally Brooke1993
- Toni Garrn1992
- Michelle Kwan1980
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Chiwetel EjioforBritish actor (born 1977)
- Adile NaşitTurkish stage, voice and film actress; comedian, story teller
- Frances ConroyAmerican actress
Other Cancer Ox charts
- Hanno PöschlAustrian actor
- Elizabeth McGovernAmerican actress
- Red SkeltonAmerican comedian
- Vittorio De SicaItalian film director
Other Steadfast Strategists
- Laura PreponAmerican actress and director
- Carlos ValderramaColombian footballer
- O. J. SimpsonAmerican football player and actor
- Shailene WoodleyAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Leah McSweeneyAmerican fashion designer
- Aly MichalkaAmerican singer and actress
- Olivia MunnAmerican actress, comedian, television personality and author
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Shelley’s cards
Computed from July 7, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Shelley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235478 (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.
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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 Shelley Duvall.
Quick answers about Shelley Duvall’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Shelley Duvall?
- Shelley Duvall was a Cancer: born July 7, 1949, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Shelley Duvall's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 7, 1949 birth.
- What was Shelley Duvall's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Shelley Duvall's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Shelley Duvall's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Shelley Duvall's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
