Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934, Richmond, United States, 15:57), aged 92, is an American actress. Notable films include The Apartment, Downton Abbey and Terms of Endearment. MacLaine's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special, Kennedy Center Honors and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Shirley MacLaine’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
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Shirley MacLaine’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
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) × fixed 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 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
White · Blush · Forest
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What the chart says
Shirley, according to the stars
Core essence
Shirley is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Shirley is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Shirley is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Shirley needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Shirley wants to be loved
Shirley wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Shirley, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Shirley creates
How Shirley 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. Shirley 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: Shirley is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Shirley 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 Shirley's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Shirley sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Shirley MacLaine's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Shirley MacLaine was born on April 24, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Shirley MacLaine's birth date, April 24, 1934, 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
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Shirley MacLaine's timed chart: Moon in the 1st house, Venus in the 7th house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Shirley MacLaine's timed chart is Mercury opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Shirley MacLaine combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Shirley’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercuryoppositionJupiterapplying · 0.9° orb
Shirley’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 1.2° orb
Shirley’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
SunconjunctionMarsseparating · 2.3° orb
Shirley’s core identity and drive act as one.
MoonconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 2.8° orb
Shirley’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SuntrineMoonseparating · 3.0° orb
Shirley’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
MarsconjunctionUranusseparating · 3.9° orb
Shirley’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
VenustrinePlutoapplying · 4.7° orb
Shirley’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
UranussquarePlutoseparating · 5.2° orb
Shirley’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoontrineMarsseparating · 5.3° orb
Shirley’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SuntrineNeptuneapplying · 5.8° orb
Shirley’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SunconjunctionUranusseparating · 6.2° orb
Shirley’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 6.3° orb
Shirley’s growth grinds against their depths.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ ChironGemini 1°56′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Shirley turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresTaurus 19°29′ · House 9
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.
♡ ErosTaurus 11°19′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Shirley wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 24°06′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Shirley is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°29′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Shirley guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Eros trine Neptune 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.6°
- Chiron trine Ascendant 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°).
Shirley’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Moon, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; angular in the seventh house; 1 major aspect
3. ☽ Moon6 pts
disposes Pluto; angular in the first house; 3 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.
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.
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.4°
- Moon semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.6°
Shirley’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Aries, house 8 | Moon, Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 7 | Jupiter | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 11 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 2 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aquarius, house 6 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 8 | Saturn | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 1 | Venus | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Taurus, house 9 | Mercury, Uranus | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 7 | Sun, Mars | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Aries, house 8 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 1 | Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Taurus, house 9 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Other writers
- Gene Roberts1932
- Fred Chappell1936
- V. S. Naipaul1932
- Mario Vargas Llosa1936
- Saul Friedländer1932
- Kenneth Silverman1936
Born in United States
- Gordon S. WoodAmerican history teacher, university and college faculty member, historian
- Herb SimonAmerican businessman (born 1934)
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Also born on April 24
- Barbra Streisand1942
- Kelly Clarkson1982
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Shirley’s cards
Every card is computed from April 24, 1934, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Shirley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q95026, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 movie studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Shirley MacLaine at Wikipedia, shirleymaclaine.com, IMDb, X 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.
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Quick answers about Shirley MacLaine’s chart
- How old is Shirley MacLaine?
- Shirley MacLaine is 92 years old, born April 24, 1934 in Richmond, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Shirley MacLaine?
- Shirley MacLaine is a Taurus: born April 24, 1934, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dog.
- What is Shirley MacLaine's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 24, 1934 birth.
- What time was Shirley MacLaine born?
- 15:57 local time in Richmond, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Shirley MacLaine's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 15:57 birth time in Richmond, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Shirley MacLaine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 24, 1934 birth date.
- What is Shirley MacLaine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 1°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 24, 1934 birth time.
- Where is Shirley MacLaine's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 20°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Shirley MacLaine's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Moon, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
