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Shirley Ann Grau

Shirley Ann Grau (born July 8, 1929, New Orleans, United States; died 2020), was an American writer. Grau is best remembered for The Keepers of the House. Grau's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Shirley Ann Grau’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Shirley Ann Grau’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Visionary

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#1586

US rank in 2025

~695,934

Americans share it since 1880

1935

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Shirley’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 8

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Shirley, according to the stars

Core essence

Shirley feels the room before entering it. The core of Shirley 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 Shirley, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Shirley needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Shirley needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Shirley wants to be loved

Shirley 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 Shirley like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Shirley creates

How Shirley makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Shirley builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Shirley is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Shirley 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Shirley channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Shirley's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Shirley sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Shirley

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Shirley

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

PrivateExpressive
Shirley

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Shirley

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

PracticalVisionary
Shirley

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Shirley

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 Shirley Ann Grau

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

Shirley’s birth-night reference starIzarwarm orange · BoötesIzar, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 84.2° 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, 30.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Shirley Ann Grau at a glance

Cancer Sun

Feeds you before you ask.

Shirley Ann Grau's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 8, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Earth Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Shirley Ann Grau was born on July 8, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Shirley Ann Grau's birth date, July 8, 1929, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Shirley’s chart

Shirley’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Shirley Ann Grau, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.3° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.8° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.1° orbSun fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.8° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.9° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.1° orbMars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.1° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.7° orbSun in Cancer · 16°01′☉16°Moon in Leo · 12°09′☽12°Mercury in Gemini · 25°31′☿25°Venus in Gemini · 0°38′♀0°Mars in Virgo · 2°35′♂2°Jupiter in Gemini · 5°42′♃5°Saturn in Sagittarius · 25°49′ · retrograde♄℞25°Uranus in Aries · 11°21′♅11°Neptune in Leo · 29°31′♆29°Pluto in Cancer · 17°52′♇17°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Shirley’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune0.6° to 1.6° orb

    Shirley’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto1.4° to 2.3° orb

    Shirley’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenussquareMars1.7° to 2.1° orb

    Shirley’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune2.8° to 3.4° orb

    Shirley’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter2.9° to 3.3° orb

    Shirley’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune3.4° to 4.6° orb

    Shirley’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb

    Shirley’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunsquareUranus4.2° to 5.1° orb

    Shirley’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.5° orb

    Shirley’s affections and growth act as one.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune6.1° to 6.3° orb

    Shirley’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableUranussquarePluto6.5° orb

    Shirley’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

Shirley’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.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 13°38′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Shirley building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 26°32′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Shirley is read as someone who shows care by providing.

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 4°59′ (moves 0.86° over the day)

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

    Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Shirley is read as slow to start and exact once started.

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 13°39′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Shirley feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 5°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Shirley is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

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.

  • Eros square Jupiter 0.7°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.3°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 2.4°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 2.4°
  • Hygiea square Sun 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.8°
  • Ceres square Neptune 3.0°

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°).

Shirley’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. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

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

  2. 2. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    5 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Shirley is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Shirley’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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 semi-square Pluto 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Neptune 1.5°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 1.6°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Shirley Ann Grau, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Shirley’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Moon

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The Evergreen Visionary

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Shirley Ann Grau, 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

Shirley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q459631, 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 Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Shirley Ann Grau at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 Shirley Ann Grau.

Quick answers about Shirley Ann Grau’s chart

What zodiac sign was Shirley Ann Grau?
Shirley Ann Grau was a Cancer: born July 8, 1929, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake.
What was Shirley Ann Grau's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 8, 1929 birth.
What time was Shirley Ann Grau 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 was Shirley Ann Grau's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 8, 1929 birth date.
What was Shirley Ann Grau's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 8, 1929 birth date.
Where was Shirley Ann Grau's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Shirley Ann Grau's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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