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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dragon, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~695,934
Americans share it since 1880
1935
its peak year
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Shirley’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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.
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, 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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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.
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. 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.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for Shirley Temple, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Shirley’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.7° to 4.7° orb
Shirley’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.9° to 4.2° orb
Shirley’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.2° to 5.2° orb
Shirley’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.1° to 6.1° orb
Shirley’s affections and growth act as one.
stableJupitersquarePluto5.5° to 5.7° orb
Shirley’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.6° to 5.9° orb
Shirley’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareSaturn5.8° to 6.6° orb
Shirley’s drive grinds against their discipline.
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
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 5°33′ (moves 0.06° 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.
⚳ CeresPisces 3°21′ (moves 0.31° 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.
♡ ErosAquarius 22°14′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Shirley is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 25°25′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Shirley is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 16°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Shirley is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- 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°
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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Shirley is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
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 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Shirley Temple, 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 April 23, 1928, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for Shirley Temple, 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 Q182580, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
- 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 time was Shirley Temple 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 Temple's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the April 23, 1928 birth date.
- What was Shirley Temple's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 23, 1928 birth date.
- 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.
