Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple (born April 23, 1928, Santa Monica, United States; died 2014), was an American actress and diplomat. Temple served as United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Temple's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Academy Juvenile Award and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
Shirley Temple’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Shirley
Shirley Temple’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, 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
Of the names registered in 1928, Shirley came 10th among girls and 370th among boys, carried by 14,215 American girls and 249 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Shirley’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Shirley’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets Shirley apart
Max Planck (1858) and Halldór Laxness (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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.
How Shirley wants to be loved
Shirley wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Shirley creates
How Shirley makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Shirley creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Shirley is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Shirley is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Shirley slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Shirley's birth date. Working below.
Where Shirley sits
Six lines
Shirley’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Shirley Temple
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Santa Monica on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Santa Monica that night
Computed for 34.02°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Zosma stood nearest the zenith over Santa Monica at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.9° above the horizon in Leo.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 34.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 22% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
How unusual Shirley's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Aries · 1 unaspected planet · No Air planets
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.
Score your own chart →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Shirley Temple's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 23, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Shirley Temple was born on April 23, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Shirley Temple's birth date, April 23, 1928, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Shirley’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Shirley Temple's date-only chart is Venus square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Shirley Temple combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Shirley’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussquarePluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
Shirley’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.2° to 2.9° orb
Shirley’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.0° to 2.2° orb
Shirley’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrinePluto2.3° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.7° to 4.7° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn2.9° to 4.2° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.2° to 5.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.1° to 6.1° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.5° to 5.7° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.6° to 5.9° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.8° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Shirley’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 5°33′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 3°21′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 22°14′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 25°25′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 16°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.1°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.2°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 2.1°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.6°
Shirley’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Shirley’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
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Other Tidal Lightkeepers
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- Riechedly BazoerCuraçaoan footballer
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Famous people with Life Path 11
- Joe MiltonAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Leo ChenalAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Tim PatrickAmerican football wide receiver
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Shirley’s cards
Computed from April 23, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Shirley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q182580 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Shirley Temple at Wikipedia, shirleytemple.com, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Shirley Temple.
Quick answers about Shirley Temple’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Shirley Temple?
- Shirley Temple was a Taurus: born April 23, 1928, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Shirley Temple's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 23, 1928 birth.
- What was Shirley Temple's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Shirley Temple's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Shirley Temple's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Shirley Temple's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
