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Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson (born November 24, 1965, Forres, United Kingdom), aged 60, is a British actress.

Shirley Henderson’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Shirley Henderson’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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

2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

East

Season

spring

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid

Gold · Rose-gold · Botanical green

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What the chart says

Shirley, according to the stars

Core essence

Shirley is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Shirley is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Shirley 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 Shirley 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 Shirley wants to be loved

Shirley wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Shirley you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Shirley creates

How Shirley makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Shirley 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: 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Shirley is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Shirley does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

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

Where Shirley sits

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Shirley’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Shirley

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Shirley

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Shirley

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Shirley

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Shirley

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Shirley

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Blunt, cheerful, gone by morning.

Shirley Henderson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 24, 1965, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Wood Snake

Says less than it knows.

Shirley Henderson was born on November 24, 1965, which falls in a Wood 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 2

Holds the room together.

Shirley Henderson's birth date, November 24, 1965, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.

What stands out in Shirley’s chart

Shirley’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Shirley Henderson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Sagittarius 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 grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.3° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.3° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.6° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.6° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.7° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.9° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.3° orbSun in Sagittarius · 2°00′Moon in Sagittarius · 17°38′17°Mercury in Sagittarius · 18°54′ · retrograde18°Venus in Capricorn · 18°51′18°Mars in Capricorn · 7°45′Jupiter in Gemini · 29°16′ · retrograde29°Saturn in Pisces · 10°35′10°Uranus in Virgo · 19°11′19°Neptune in Scorpio · 20°11′20°Pluto in Virgo · 18°17′18°

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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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.

  • stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Shirley’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.1° to 7.7° orb

    Shirley’s feelings and mind act as one.

  • stableMoonsquarePluto0.1° to 7.0° orb

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

  • stableVenustrinePluto0.1° to 1.0° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.2° to 0.4° orb

    Shirley’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto0.5° to 0.7° orb

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

  • stableVenussextileNeptune0.9° to 1.8° orb

    Shirley’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto0.9° orb

    Shirley’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableUranussextileNeptune1.0° orb

    Shirley’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb

    Shirley’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn2.5° to 3.2° orb

    Shirley’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto7.7° orb

    Shirley’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable7 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.

  • ChironPisces 17°59′

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Shirley absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • CeresPisces 19°19′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Shirley is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

  • ErosPisces 8°23′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Shirley is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaVirgo 22°41′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Shirley is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

  • Black Moon LilithAquarius 15°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Shirley at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Ceres opposition Uranus 0.1°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 0.3°
  • Ceres square Mercury 0.4°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Eros sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Chiron square Mercury 0.9°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 0.9°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 0.9°
  • Ceres opposition Pluto 1.0°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.2°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.2°
  • Eros conjunction Saturn 2.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.5°

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. Pluto7 pts

    disposes Neptune; 6 major aspects

  2. 2. Mercury6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Jupiter5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Shirley 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 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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
  • Sun quintile Uranus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.9°

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

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Shirley’s cards

Every card is computed from November 24, 1965, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The High Priestess

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

yin Wood

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

yin Fire

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Water

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Shirley Henderson, 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 Q232889, 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 nicolas genin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Shirley Henderson at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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 Henderson.

Quick answers about Shirley Henderson’s chart

How old is Shirley Henderson?
Shirley Henderson is 60 years old, born November 24, 1965 in Forres, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Shirley Henderson?
Shirley Henderson is a Sagittarius: born November 24, 1965, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake.
What is Shirley Henderson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 24, 1965 birth.
What time was Shirley Henderson 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 Shirley Henderson's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the November 24, 1965 birth date.
What is Shirley Henderson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 24, 1965 birth date.
Where is Shirley Henderson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Shirley Henderson's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Neptune; 6 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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