Claressa Shields is an American boxer from Flint, Michigan. At 17 she won the women's middleweight gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics, the first American woman to win an Olympic boxing gold, and she took the title again at Rio in 2016, the first American boxer to win consecutive Olympic titles. She turned professional in November 2016 and became undisputed middleweight champion in 2019. In March 2021 she added the undisputed light middleweight titles, the first boxer of the four-belt era undisputed in two weight classes. She has held world titles in five weight classes, and in February 2025 she beat Danielle Perkins to become the first woman undisputed at heavyweight. Between 2021 and 2024 she also fought in mixed martial arts for the Professional Fighters League. The film The Fire Inside (2024) is based on her life story.
Her tweet about the minute
Her own words are the source. The collector Sy Scholfield found them on Twitter: "I was born 11:27am!" The entry is graded A and carries no second hour.
| Point | Sign at birth | In that sign | Before and after |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rising sign | ♋︎ Cancer | 11:21 a.m. to 1:43 p.m. | Gemini before, Leo after |
| Midheaven | ♓︎ Pisces | 11:05 a.m. to 12:55 p.m. | Aquarius before, Aries after |
| Moon | ♎︎ Libra | 3:18 a.m. to midnight | Virgo before |
Rising sign, midheaven and Moon calculated by us, Flint, Michigan, Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5).
Mercury just under the Pisces midheaven
The midheaven is 6°04′ Pisces. Pisces took it at 11:05 a.m., 22 minutes before the recorded time. Mercury at 4°03′ stands 2°01′ short of that point, and both house systems put it in the 9th, a place the tradition ties to study, travel and long reach.
The Sun at 26°37′ and Saturn at 16°26′ complete the Pisces group. Placidus calls both 10th-house planets, the house of public standing; Whole Sign sends them to the 9th. Pisces crowding the top points to a mutable water lens on the public side, with Saturn adding discipline.
Our pages: Midheaven in Pisces · Mercury in Pisces · Saturn in Pisces · 9th house · 10th house.
Cancer opens the horizon at 11:21 a.m.
Cancer has risen over Flint since 11:21 a.m. and holds the horizon until 1:43 p.m. Gemini gave way six minutes before the birth, so the ascendant is 1°33′ Cancer, early in the sign.
The Moon rules Cancer, and the tradition looks to it for how the rising sign is carried. Hers is in Libra, in the 4th house of home ground and foundations. Cancer rising goes with a protective, attentive first impression.
Our pages: Cancer rising · Moon in Libra · 4th house · rising sign calculator.
A Libra Moon facing the Pisces Sun
The Moon crossed from Virgo into Libra at 3:18 a.m. that morning, 8.2 hours before her birth, and leaves at 5:53 a.m. on March 19. At 4°47′ it lies opposite the Sun, 8°11′ beyond exact, so she was born within a day after the full Moon.
Pisces dissolves boundaries and Libra weighs both sides. That opposition sets feeling one's way in against holding a fair balance, with each light at the other's back.
Our pages: Moon in Libra · Pisces · moon sign calculator · Sun, Moon and rising together.
Jupiter squares Saturn, and Mars trines Jupiter
Jupiter at 15°03′ of Sagittarius and Saturn at 16°26′ of Pisces are 1°23′ from an exact square. Jupiter is the older ruler of Pisces, so Saturn stands in Jupiter's own sign, and the pair suggests expansion held to a standard. Jupiter occupies the 6th house, the house of routine and daily practice.
Mars at 13°28′ of Leo, retrograde, trines Jupiter, 1°34′ off. Fire meets fire, drive finding easy support. Placidus puts Mars in the 3rd house, Whole Sign in the 2nd.
Our pages: Jupiter in Sagittarius · Saturn in Pisces · Mars in Leo · 6th house.
Neptune sextile the Sun, and two planets at a sign line
Neptune at 25°05′ of Capricorn, the modern ruler of Pisces, sextiles the Sun, 1°31′ off. The ruler of the Sun's sign sits in a cardinal earth sign, taken as imagination given a structure to work in.
Uranus at 29°30′ of Capricorn stands on the final degree of its sign and Pluto at 0°33′ of Sagittarius on the first of the next. Their sextile is 1°03′ wide and the tightest of all, but it belongs to a whole age group, so the tradition weighs it below the personal links.
Our pages: Neptune in Capricorn · Uranus in Capricorn · Pluto in Sagittarius · 7th house · 8th house.
All major aspects between the planets in Claressa Shields's chart
- Uranus sextile Pluto orb 1°03′
- Jupiter square Saturn orb 1°23′
- Sun sextile Neptune orb 1°31′
- Mars trine Jupiter orb 1°34′
- Venus sextile Jupiter orb 2°24′
- Sun sextile Uranus orb 2°54′
- Mercury square Pluto orb 3°30′
- Sun trine Pluto orb 3°56′
- Venus opposition Mars orb 3°58′
- Moon sextile Pluto orb 4°14′
- Uranus conjunction Neptune orb 4°25′
- Moon trine Uranus orb 5°17′
- Neptune sextile Pluto orb 5°28′
- Sun opposition Moon orb 8°11′
- Moon trine Neptune orb 9°42′
Orbs: 8° for conjunction, opposition, square and trine, 6° for sextile, 2° more when the Sun or Moon is involved; Node, Lilith, Ascendant and Midheaven not counted. Same rules as our birth chart calculator.
Questions about Claressa Shields's chart
Which rising sign does Claressa Shields have?
Cancer, at 1°33′ Cancer, on the horizon from 11:21 a.m. to 1:43 p.m.
Is Claressa Shields a Pisces?
Her Sun stands at 26°37′ of Pisces on March 17, 1995.
Where does her Moon fall?
In Libra at 4°47′, 4th house, since 3:18 a.m. that morning.
What is her birth time?
11:27 a.m. in Flint, Michigan, from her own tweet.
Which sign tops her chart?
Pisces, at 6°04′ Pisces, since 11:05 a.m.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
- Astro-Databank (Astrodienst): published birth charts we test the calculation against
- How we create our readings: our own calculation of sign dates, positions and the 1930 to 2025 statistics
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Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science. This page explains what the tradition says about the placements in a published chart; it makes no claims about Claressa Shields's character, health or private life. Birth data: Astro-Databank (Astrodienst), checked October 20, 2026. Positions: our calculation with the astronomy-engine ephemeris; it matches the Sun, Moon and ascendant degrees Astro-Databank publishes for this chart to within one arc minute.