Stephanie Welsh
Stephanie Welsh (born June 27, 1973, Quantico, United States), aged 53, is an American photographer and midwife. Welsh's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
Stephanie Welsh’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Stephanie
Stephanie Welsh’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Stephanie in the U.S.?
#557
US rank in 2025
~747,786
Americans share it since 1891
1990
its peak year
In 1973, 17,263 American girls and 67 boys were registered Stephanie — 9th among girls and 991st among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stephanie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on S (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Stephanie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1973, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Stephanie apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography came in 1996, when Stephanie Welsh was 23.
The schooling ran through Syracuse University and Kents Hill School.
On Wikipedia the categories read University of Connecticut faculty, American women photographers and Georgetown University faculty.
Tobey Maguire (1975) and Khloé Kardashian (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Syracuse University, Kents Hill School and Yale University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (1996)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Stephanie, according to the stars
Core essence
Stephanie feels the room before entering it. The core of Stephanie 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 Stephanie, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Stephanie wants to be loved
Stephanie wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Stephanie gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Stephanie creates
How Stephanie 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. Stephanie 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: Stephanie is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Stephanie is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Stephanie gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Stephanie's birth date. Working below.
Where Stephanie sits
Six lines
Stephanie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Stephanie Welsh
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Quantico 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 Quantico that night
Computed for 38.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Quantico was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 78.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
Quantico sits at 38.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Quantico at all: they sit past the −51.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon down and 9% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Quantico, United States
- Lives in
- Mansfield
Wikidata records Mansfield as Stephanie Welsh's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Stephanie Welsh: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Stephanie's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · T-square onto Sun · 1 unaspected planet
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.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Stephanie Welsh's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 27, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Stephanie Welsh was born on June 27, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Stephanie Welsh's birth date, June 27, 1973, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Stephanie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stephanie Welsh's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Stephanie Welsh combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Stephanie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMarstrineNeptune0.5° to 1.2° orb
Stephanie’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.2° to 1.8° orb
Stephanie’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareMars1.3° to 1.6° orb
Stephanie’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMarsoppositionPluto2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.3° to 3.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb
stableSunsquarePluto3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurytrineMars4.2° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.7° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.0° to 6.1° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Stephanie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 20°36′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 5°42′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 22°10′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 25°54′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 24°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.2°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.2°
- Ceres trine Mars 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.7°
Stephanie’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Stephanie’s chart
Kite · Mercury, Mars, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Pluto, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.3°
More people like Stephanie
Other photographers
- Cheryl Diaz Meyer1968
- Lexi Jones2000
- Hedi Slimane1968
- Frank Ocean1987
- Alexander McQueen1969
- Evgeniy Maloletka1987
Born in United States
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- Janelle BrownAmerican writer
- Neil Patrick HarrisAmerican actor
- Shannon ElizabethAmerican actress
- Eddie CibrianAmerican actor (born 1973)
- Katt WilliamsAmerican comedian and actor
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on June 27
- Tobey Maguire1975
- Khloé Kardashian1984
- Vera Wang1949
- Sam Claflin1986
- Wagner Moura1976
- Matthieu Blazy1984
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
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Famous people with Life Path 8
- Robert EdwardsEnglish physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisation
- Frederick BantingCanadian medical scientist and doctor
- Ilya PrigogineRussian-Belgian physical chemist
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Stephanie’s cards
Computed from June 27, 1973. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stephanie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q50858173 (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.
The same Stephanie Welsh at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Stephanie Welsh.
Quick answers about Stephanie Welsh’s chart
- How old is Stephanie Welsh?
- Stephanie Welsh is 53 years old, born June 27, 1973 in Quantico, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Stephanie Welsh?
- Stephanie Welsh is a Cancer: born June 27, 1973, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Stephanie Welsh's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 27, 1973 birth.
- What is Stephanie Welsh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Stephanie Welsh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Stephanie Welsh's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Stephanie Welsh's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Aries; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
