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Shirin Ebadi

Shirin Ebadi (born June 21, 1947, Hamadan, Iran), aged 79, is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Ebadi has held office as judge. Ebadi's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Leibniz-Ring-Hannover.

Shirin Ebadi’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Shirin Ebadi’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Shirin in the U.S.?

#7443

US rank in 2025

~801

Americans share it since 1938

1985

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Shirin falls under that line for 1947. Its peak came in 1985, and 801 Americans have carried it since 1938.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Shirin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

6

Soul Urge · being needed

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Shirin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy

Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange

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 1947, 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 Shirin apart

The Rafto Prize came in 2001, when Shirin Ebadi was 54.

Shirin Ebadi was taught at University of Tehran.

Wikipedia files Shirin Ebadi under Iranian women lawyers, First women judges and Academic staff of the University of Tehran.

Benazir Bhutto (1953) and Chris Pratt (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Tehran
Awards
Nobel Peace Prize (2003), Leibniz-Ring-Hannover (2004) and Rafto Prize (2001)
Citizenship
Iran
Languages
Persian
Wikipedia editions
112

What the chart says

Shirin, according to the stars

Core essence

Shirin is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Shirin needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Shirin wants to be loved

Shirin wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Shirin like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Shirin creates

How Shirin makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Shirin creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Shirin 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Shirin is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Shirin is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Shirin's birth date. Working below.

Where Shirin sits

Six lines

Shirin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Shirin

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Shirin

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

PrivateExpressive
Shirin

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Shirin

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

PracticalVisionary
Shirin

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Shirin

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Shirin Ebadi

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hamadan on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Shirin’s birth-night reference starIzarwarm orange · BoötesIzar, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 82.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Izar →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 24° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Hamadan that night

Computed for 34.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Izar stood nearest the zenith over Hamadan at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.5° above the horizon in Boötes.

Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Hamadan sits at 34.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hamadan at all: they sit past the −55.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon up and 12% lit at waxing crescent.

The name and the places

Born in
Hamadan, Iran
Lives in
London

Wikidata records London as Shirin Ebadi's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Shirin Ebadi: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Shirin's chart is

Chart pattern score

51 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Shirin Ebadi at a glance

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Shirin Ebadi's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 21, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Shirin Ebadi was born on June 21, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Shirin Ebadi's birth date, June 21, 1947, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Shirin’s chart

Shirin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.4° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 1° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.2° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.2° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.7° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4° orbSun in Gemini · 29°08′☉29°Moon in Leo · 4°00′☽3°Mercury in Cancer · 23°22′☿23°Venus in Gemini · 9°03′♀9°Mars in Taurus · 22°59′♂22°Jupiter in Scorpio · 18°35′ · retrograde♃℞18°Saturn in Leo · 6°52′♄6°Uranus in Gemini · 22°22′♅22°Neptune in Libra · 8°02′♆8°Pluto in Leo · 11°42′♇11°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.4° orb

    Shirin’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune0.4° to 1.6° orb

    Shirin’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Shirin’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn1.6° to 2.7° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto2.1° to 3.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter4.0° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter4.4° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.8° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus6.3° to 7.2° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto6.8° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Shirin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 2°24′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAries 25°31′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 6°53′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 7°13′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 15°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Saturn 0.0°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.3°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.8°
  • Ceres square Mercury 2.1°
  • Eros opposition Venus 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.8°

Shirin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Shirin’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.0°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.0°

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Shirin’s cards

Computed from June 21, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Shirin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q131152 (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 Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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 Shirin Ebadi.

Quick answers about Shirin Ebadi’s chart

How old is Shirin Ebadi?
Shirin Ebadi is 79 years old, born June 21, 1947 in Hamadan, Iran.
What zodiac sign is Shirin Ebadi?
Shirin Ebadi is a Gemini: born June 21, 1947, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Shirin Ebadi's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 21, 1947 birth.
What is Shirin Ebadi's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Shirin Ebadi's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Shirin Ebadi's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Shirin Ebadi's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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