Shelley Long
Shelley Long (born August 23, 1949, Fort Wayne, United States), aged 77, is an American actress and comedian (born 1949). Long's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy.
Shelley Long’s zodiac sign is Leo or Virgo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Shelley
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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
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
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
The record
What sets Shelley apart
Kobe Bryant (1978) and River Phoenix (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Shelley, according to the stars
How Shelley wants to be loved
Shelley wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Shelley gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Shelley creates
How Shelley makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Shelley creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
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 9 is the humanitarian. Shelley is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Shelley does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Shelley's birth date. Working below.
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The sky over Fort Wayne that night
Computed for 41.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Fort Wayne at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.2° above the horizon in Lyra.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Fort Wayne sits at 41.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Fort Wayne at all: they sit past the −48.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 16° down.
How unusual Shelley's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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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Leo or Virgo Sun
Shelley Long was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Shelley Long was born on August 23, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Shelley Long's birth date, August 23, 1949, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Shelley’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Shelley Long's date-only chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
Shelley’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.0° orb
Shelley’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Shelley’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileMars2.0° to 2.8° orb
Shelley’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.3° to 3.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 14.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 2.8° to 17.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 3.3° to 17.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 7.1° to 21.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Shelley’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 3°11′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 27°43′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 0°23′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 3°48′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 14°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.0°
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.3°
- Chiron square Sun 3.0°
Shelley’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♅ Uranus3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Shelley’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.9°
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Also born on August 23
- Kobe Bryant1978
- River Phoenix1970
- Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen1978
- Lil Yachty1997
- Jay Mohr1970
- Caroline Manzo1961
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Chey Tae-wonSouth Korean businessman
- Theo AlbrechtGerman entrepreneur
- Akira MoriJapanese businessman
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Thomas M. DischAmerican science fiction author and poet
- Catherynne M. ValenteAmerican writer (born 1979)
- Lois McMaster BujoldAmerican novelist (born 1949)
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Shelley’s cards
Computed from August 23, 1949. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Shelley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232951 (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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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Shelley Long.
Quick answers about Shelley Long’s chart
- How old is Shelley Long?
- Shelley Long is 77 years old, born August 23, 1949 in Fort Wayne, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Shelley Long?
- Shelley Long was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Shelley Long's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 23, 1949 birth.
- What is Shelley Long's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Shelley Long's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Shelley Long's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Shelley Long's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
