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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, Chinese zodiac was 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 1884

1959

its peak year

The SSA recorded 622 American girls named Valerie in 1939: 251st for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Valerie’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

8

Soul Urge · achievement

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on V (4) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Valerie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Valerie apart

Ray Bradbury (1920) and Dua Lipa (1995) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Valerie sits

Six lines

Valerie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Suffern 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 Suffern that night

Computed for 41.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Suffern was Vega, in Lyra, 83.8° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.

Suffern sits at 41.1°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 Suffern at all: they sit past the −48.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 62% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.

How unusual Valerie's chart is

Chart pattern score

68 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Leo · Grand trine · Only two elements

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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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.

What Leo means →

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.

What the Rabbit means →

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.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Valerie’s chart

Valerie’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

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′☽7°Mercury in Leo · 12°23′☿12°Venus in Leo · 24°46′♀24°Mars in Capricorn · 23°56′ · retrograde♂℞23°Jupiter in Aries · 7°52′ · retrograde♃℞7°Saturn in Taurus · 1°12′ · retrograde♄℞1°Uranus in Taurus · 21°57′♅21°Neptune in Virgo · 22°09′♆22°Pluto in Leo · 1°51′♇1°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
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

  • 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

  • stableMarstrineUranus2.0° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn2.1° to 3.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareUranus2.2° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.7° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter4.4° to 4.7° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto6.0° to 6.1° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto7.9° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 1°04′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 27°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Valerie’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Valerie’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

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

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Valerie’s cards

Computed from August 22, 1939. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Valerie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q239293 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Valerie Harper's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Valerie Harper's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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