Mac DeMarco
Mac DeMarco (born Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith; April 30, 1990, Duncan, Canada), aged 36, is a Canadian musician. Best-known releases include This Old Dog, Salad Days and 2.
Mac DeMarco’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Mac
Mac DeMarco’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Mac in the U.S.?
#696
US rank in 2025
~11,455
Americans share it since 1880
2022
its peak year
In 1990, 47 American boys were registered Mac — 1,719th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mac’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith, not the name they published under.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on V (4) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mac’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Mac apart
Kirsten Dunst (1982) and Claude Shannon (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Mac, according to the stars
Core essence
Mac is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Mac is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Mac wants to be loved
Mac wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Mac, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Mac creates
How Mac makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Mac creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Mac is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Mac 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Mac slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Mac's birth date. Working below.
Where Mac sits
Six lines
Mac’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Mac DeMarco
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Duncan 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 Duncan that night
Computed for 48.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Duncan was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 82.8° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Duncan sits at 48.8°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −41.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 43% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith
- Known as
- Mac DeMarco
- Born in
- Duncan, Canada
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Mac DeMarco: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Mac's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Mac DeMarco's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 30, 1990, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseOpen road, open heart.
Mac DeMarco was born on April 30, 1990, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Mac DeMarco's birth date, April 30, 1990, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Mac’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mac DeMarco's date-only chart is Mars trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mac DeMarco combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Mac’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Cancer or Leo 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
stableSuntrineUranus0.2° to 1.2° orb
Mac’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.2° to 0.8° orb
Mac’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.4° to 1.0° orb
Mac’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.4° to 1.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.1° to 1.6° orb
stableMarssextileUranus1.7° to 2.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.5° to 2.7° orb
stableSunsextileMars2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter2.9° to 3.7° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.9° to 4.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.3° to 5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire or Air signs.
Mac’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 12°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 9°39′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 4°33′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 10°18′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 19°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.1°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.0°
- Ceres trine Mars 2.3°
- Chiron opposition Neptune 2.4°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.7°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.9°
Mac’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
6 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Mac’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on April 30
- Kirsten Dunst1982
- Claude Shannon1916
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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- François CluzetFrench actor
- Shameik MooreAmerican actor (born 1995)
Other Taurus Horse charts
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Other Evergreen Scholars
- Laura DernAmerican actress and producer
- David SchwimmerAmerican actor
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Famous people with Life Path 8
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Mac’s cards
Computed from April 30, 1990. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mac’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q14517 (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 Paul Carless from St Albans, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mac DeMarco at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mac DeMarco.
Quick answers about Mac DeMarco’s chart
- How old is Mac DeMarco?
- Mac DeMarco is 36 years old, born April 30, 1990 in Duncan, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Mac DeMarco?
- Mac DeMarco is a Taurus: born April 30, 1990, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Mac DeMarco's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 30, 1990 birth.
- What is Mac DeMarco's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mac DeMarco's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mac DeMarco's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mac DeMarco's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Venus, Mars; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
