Sheryl WuDunn
Sheryl WuDunn (born November 16, 1959, New York City, United States), aged 66, is an American journalist and executive. WuDunn's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and George Polk Award.
Sheryl WuDunn’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Sheryl WuDunn’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Sheryl in the U.S.?
#8281
US rank in 2025
~79,026
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Sheryl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Sheryl, according to the stars
Core essence
Sheryl does not do surface. The core of Sheryl is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Sheryl is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Sheryl processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Sheryl needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Sheryl wants to be loved
Sheryl 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. Sheryl gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Sheryl creates
How Sheryl makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Sheryl creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Sheryl 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Sheryl is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Sheryl runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Sheryl's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Sheryl WuDunn in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Sheryl WuDunn's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 16, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Sheryl WuDunn was born on November 16, 1959, which falls in a Earth 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 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Sheryl WuDunn's birth date, November 16, 1959, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Sheryl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sheryl WuDunn's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Sheryl WuDunn combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Sheryl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Sheryl WuDunn, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoonoppositionMercury0.0° to 7.7° orb
Sheryl’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
stableMoontrineVenus0.0° to 6.1° orb
Sheryl’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.1° to 6.7° orb
Sheryl’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.4° to 1.0° orb
Sheryl’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.1° to 2.0° orb
Sheryl’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
Sheryl’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.5° to 3.0° orb
Sheryl’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrinePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
Sheryl’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareUranus2.1° to 3.1° orb
Sheryl’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.2° to 3.1° orb
Sheryl’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.5° to 2.7° orb
Sheryl’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMarssquareUranus2.7° to 3.3° orb
Sheryl’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Sheryl’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAquarius 22°47′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Sheryl making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°10′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Sheryl is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosSagittarius 18°17′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Sheryl attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaLeo 26°22′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
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 Sheryl at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Sheryl that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.1°
- Chiron square Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 2.0°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.7°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.8°
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°).
Sheryl’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; 4 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Sheryl is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Sheryl’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree 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 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sheryl WuDunn, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Sheryl’s family here
One relative of Sheryl WuDunn also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Sheryl’s cards
Every card is computed from November 16, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Sheryl WuDunn, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Sheryl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7126275, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Marty555, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sheryl WuDunn at Wikipedia.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sheryl WuDunn.
Quick answers about Sheryl WuDunn’s chart
- How old is Sheryl WuDunn?
- Sheryl WuDunn is 66 years old, born November 16, 1959 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Sheryl WuDunn?
- Sheryl WuDunn is a Scorpio: born November 16, 1959, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- What is Sheryl WuDunn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 16, 1959 birth.
- What time was Sheryl WuDunn born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Sheryl WuDunn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the November 16, 1959 birth date.
- What is Sheryl WuDunn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 16, 1959 birth date.
- Where is Sheryl WuDunn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sheryl WuDunn's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
