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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.

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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.

Intimate circleWide network
Shelley

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Shelley

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Shelley

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Shelley

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Shelley

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Shelley

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ 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.

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Shelley Duvall at a glance

Cancer Sun

Moody, 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

Stubborn, 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

Front 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

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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.2° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.3° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.8° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 3° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.2° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 5.3° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 5.6° orbSun in Cancer · 15°13′☉15°Moon in Sagittarius · 12°17′☽12°Mercury in Gemini · 26°05′☿26°Venus in Leo · 6°58′♀6°Mars in Gemini · 19°25′♂19°Jupiter in Capricorn · 28°52′ · retrograde♃℞28°Saturn in Virgo · 2°57′♄2°Uranus in Cancer · 1°38′♅1°Neptune in Libra · 12°27′♆12°Pluto in Leo · 15°14′♇15°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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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. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Uranus

  3. 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°

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Shelley’s cards

Computed from July 7, 1949. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese 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.

Portrait by United Press International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Shelley Duvall at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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.

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