Maria Callas’s birth chart
Born 2 December 1923, in New York City, New York. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Sagittarius Sun · Moon in Virgo or Libra
Maria Callas’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Maria Callas was born on Sunday, 2 December 1923, in New York City, New York. The Sun was in Sagittarius, so Sagittarius was their zodiac sign. The Moon changed sign at about 19:25, from Virgo to Libra; which of the two is the Moon sign depends on the hour of birth. Maria died on 16 September 1977, aged 53. StarMap has no verified birth time for Maria, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
Fire carries the most weight: four of the eight planets whose sign does not depend on the birth time, against air two, water two and earth none. By modality the count is four mutable, three cardinal and one fixed. Sagittarius holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Sun, Mercury and Jupiter. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Mars and Saturn: a conjunction, about 0.7° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Two planets were retrograde: Neptune and Pluto. Over the course of the day the Moon went from last quarter to waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 17 other people born on 2 December, among them Britney Spears, Nelly Furtado and Lucy Liu. Wikidata links Maria with one person in the dataset: Aristotle Onassis (listed as partners, 1959 to 1968).
See the sky the day Maria was born: the stars over New York City, New York, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Maria Callas’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Sagittarius
about 9° Sagittarius at midday
A Sagittarius Sun seeks. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture are likely to pull Maria Callas forward, and the honesty of this placement is a kind of generosity. Its lesson is that the journey also needs somewhere to land.
Moon sign
Virgo or Libra
Virgo until about 19:25, then Libra (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 19:25: Moon in Virgo
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, Maria is likely to look for the practical cause and to calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. The lesson of this Moon is to accept help without a to-do list attached.
Born after about 19:25: Moon in Libra
A Libra Moon feels through relationship. Harmony nearby tends to settle Maria, and conflict, even other people's, can unsettle them. What restores this Moon is beauty, fairness, and one person who truly listens.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over New York City, New York, at each hour of the day.
Maria Callas’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Maria yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 2 December 1923, computed for New York City, New York.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 01:15 | Virgo rising |
| 01:15 to 03:50 | Libra rising |
| 03:50 to 06:20 | Scorpio rising |
| 06:20 to 08:45 | Sagittarius rising |
| 08:45 to 10:35 | Capricorn rising |
| 10:35 to 12:05 | Aquarius rising |
| 12:05 to 13:15 | Pisces rising |
| 13:15 to 14:25 | Aries rising |
| 14:25 to 15:50 | Taurus rising |
| 15:50 to 17:45 | Gemini rising |
| 17:45 to 20:10 | Cancer rising |
| 20:10 to 22:40 | Leo rising |
| 22:40 to 24:00 | Virgo rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 2 December 1923, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 9° Sagittarius 29' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Virgo until about 19:25, then Libra |
| Mercury | 18° Sagittarius 44' |
| Venus | Sagittarius until about 01:05, then Capricorn |
| Mars | 29° Libra 06' |
| Jupiter | 1° Sagittarius 46' |
| Saturn | 28° Libra 22' |
| Uranus | 13° Pisces 39' |
| Neptune | 20° Leo 22'℞ |
| Pluto | 11° Cancer 55'℞ |
| North Node | 6° Virgo 34' |
| South Node | 6° Pisces 34' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Maria Callas’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Maria Callas’s private life.
Growth, travel and ideas bigger than daily life are where Maria Callas's Sagittarius Sun finds purpose, and their energy tends to lift the moment there is somewhere new to go. Familiarity is what wears on this placement. A few months into any routine, however good it is, restlessness usually sets in.
Moon in Virgo or Libra
Virgo until about 19:25, then Libra
needs and habits
Born before about 19:25: Moon in Virgo
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Maria's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Maria's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
Born after about 19:25: Moon in Libra
A Libra Moon needs harmony in the immediate surroundings to feel settled day to day, and a tense conversation nearby can throw off Maria's whole afternoon. Comfort comes from pleasant company and pleasant spaces. The habit to watch is smoothing things over before they have worked out what they want.
Maria's Mercury in Sagittarius thinks in big, connective leaps and communicates with enthusiasm and a wide frame of reference drawn from everywhere they have been. The weak point is generalising past what the details support. A specific question may get a sweeping theory nobody quite asked for.
Venus in Sagittarius or Capricorn
Sagittarius until about 01:05, then Capricorn
love and values
Born before about 01:05: Venus in Sagittarius
Venus in Sagittarius loves with enthusiasm and a need for shared adventure, and Maria probably values a partner who gives them room to roam. When things get serious, this placement can confuse freedom with distance. The pattern with this Venus is to plan the next trip together before settling into the current one.
Born after about 01:05: Venus in Capricorn
For Maria, Venus in Capricorn means loving in a measured, committed way and valuing stability, ambition and someone to build a life with. The trap is treating a relationship like a project to manage rather than let unfold. With this Venus, love comes out more easily as providing and planning than as words said out loud.
In Maria's chart, Mars in Libra acts diplomatically and prefers negotiation to confrontation, and its anger tends to stay buried until it is too big to ignore. Avoided consistently, conflict leaves resentment building underneath the calm surface. The pattern is saying yes to something that rankled, then feeling it later.
Jupiter in Sagittarius
1° Sagittarius 46' at midday
growth and excess
With Jupiter in Sagittarius, Maria is likely to grow through travel, study and direct experience of things bigger than ordinary life. The excess may be promising more than circumstances can deliver, out of optimism rather than dishonesty. This Jupiter carries a conviction that things will work out, and other people borrow it when theirs runs low.
For Maria, Saturn in Libra means discipline built around relationships, and fairness and commitment are trusted slowly. The doubt is overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. With time, people with this Saturn tend to become the ones others rely on to negotiate and to keep things fair.
Uranus in Pisces
13° Pisces 39' at midday
freedom, generational
Maria has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
Neptune in Leo
20° Leo 22' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Maria alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Pluto in Cancer
11° Cancer 55' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Maria to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Aspects in Maria Callas’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Mars conjunction Saturn
about 0.7° at midday
With Mars conjunct Saturn, drive is disciplined and controlled, and Maria Callas is likely to channel energy into long, patient effort in place of short bursts. It makes them capable of sustained work. The risk is that caution talks them out of acting when the moment calls for it.
Venus sextile Mars
about 1.5° at midday
A sextile between Venus and Mars tends to let Maria go after what they like without much inner conflict, because affection and drive are pulling the same way. It is a pleasant, workable confidence, at its most useful in the early stages of anything new.
Mercury trine Neptune
about 1.6° at midday
Maria probably has a natural gift for metaphor, storytelling and intuitive leaps, the work of thinking and imagination in easy partnership. With Mercury trine Neptune, communicating something hard to put into words comes easily, in a way that other people often find memorable.
Venus sextile Saturn
about 2.2° at midday
This sextile tends to lend a workable, grounded steadiness to Maria's relationships, since affection and a sense of structure get along. Once Maria decides a commitment is right, it usually comes naturally, without the drama that faster, less considered relationships sometimes carry.
Sun square Uranus
about 4.2° at midday
When the Sun is square Uranus, Maria's identity keeps bumping against a need to break from convention, which can look like sudden changes of direction that surprise the people nearby. The skill is choosing those disruptions rather than letting restlessness choose them.
Mercury square Uranus
about 5.1° at midday
With Mercury square Uranus, the mind can jump so quickly that other people struggle to follow, or Maria may dismiss a slower approach that had merit. A good idea, paced, gives other people the chance to use it.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Uranus trine Plutoabout 1.7°
- Sun conjunction Jupiterabout 7.7°
Maria Callas in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Sagittarius Suns born within 2 years of Maria Callas
Also born on 2 December
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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