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Valerie Harper

Valerie Harper (born August 22, 1939, Suffern, United States; died 2019), was an American actress. Harper is best remembered for Rhoda, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Hogan Family. Harper's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Valerie Harper’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Valerie Harper’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Valerie in the U.S.?

#127

US rank in 2025

~273,922

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Valerie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

7 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Gold

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Valerie, according to the stars

Core essence

Valerie is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Valerie is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Valerie 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 Valerie 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 Valerie wants to be loved

Valerie wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Valerie openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Valerie creates

How Valerie makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Valerie creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Valerie is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Valerie is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Valerie 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 Valerie's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Valerie sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Valerie

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Valerie

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Valerie

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Valerie

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Valerie

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Valerie

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Valerie Harper at a glance

Leo Sun

Loves an audience. Earns one.

Valerie Harper's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 22, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Earth Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Valerie Harper was born on August 22, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Valerie Harper's birth date, August 22, 1939, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in Valerie’s chart

Valerie’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Valerie Harper, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.2° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.6° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.8° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 2° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.5° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.8° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.9° orbSun in Leo · 28°39′28°Moon in Sagittarius · 7°53′Mercury in Leo · 12°23′12°Venus in Leo · 24°46′24°Mars in Capricorn · 23°56′ · retrograde23°Jupiter in Aries · 7°52′ · retrogradeSaturn in Taurus · 1°12′ · retrogradeUranus in Taurus · 21°57′21°Neptune in Virgo · 22°09′22°Pluto in Leo · 1°51′

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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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableMoontrineJupiter0.0° to 6.4° orb

    Valerie’s feelings flow straight into their growth.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune0.2° orb

    Valerie’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto0.6° to 0.7° orb

    Valerie’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.8° orb

    Valerie’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarstrineUranus2.0° orb

    Valerie’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn2.1° to 3.0° orb

    Valerie’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussquareUranus2.2° to 3.4° orb

    Valerie’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.7° to 4.0° orb

    Valerie’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter4.4° to 4.7° orb

    Valerie’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto6.0° to 6.1° orb

    Valerie’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto7.9° orb

    Valerie’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire6 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air or Water signs.

Valerie’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.

  • ChironCancer 16°42′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Valerie is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • CeresLeo 3°48′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Valerie is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ErosCancer 8°01′ (moves 0.88° over the day)

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

    Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Valerie is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.

  • HygieaCapricorn 1°04′ (moves 0.03° 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. Valerie is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

  • Black Moon LilithAquarius 27°15′ (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 Valerie 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.

  • Eros square Jupiter 0.1°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.0°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 2.5°
  • Ceres square Saturn 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°).

Valerie’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. Sun10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Venus4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. Mars4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Valerie is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 Valerie’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, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, PlutoThree 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.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

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.

  • Venus quincunx Mars 0.8°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.9°
  • Sun biquintile Mars 1.3°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.9°

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

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Valerie’s cards

Every card is computed from August 22, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

yin Earth

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yang Water

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Metal

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Valerie Harper, 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

Valerie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q239293, 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 photograph: Maggie from Palm Springs, United States derivative work: Wildhartlivie (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Valerie Harper 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 Valerie Harper.

Quick answers about Valerie Harper’s chart

What zodiac sign was Valerie Harper?
Valerie Harper was a Leo: born August 22, 1939, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit.
What was Valerie Harper's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 22, 1939 birth.
What time was Valerie Harper 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 Valerie Harper's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 22, 1939 birth date.
What was Valerie Harper's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 22, 1939 birth date.
Where was Valerie Harper's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Valerie Harper's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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