Mack Swain
Mack Swain (born February 16, 1876, Salt Lake City, United States; died 1935), was an American actor, vaudevillian. Swain's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Mack Swain’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rat, with 
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Mack Swain’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Mack in the U.S.?
#463
US rank in 2025
~42,900
Americans share it since 1880
1942
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Mack’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Mack, according to the stars
Core essence
Mack is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Mack is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Mack feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Mack needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Mack wants to be loved
Mack wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Mack creates
How Mack makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Mack builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Mack is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Mack is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Mack gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Mack's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mack sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Mack Swain's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 16, 1876, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Fire Rat
Fire RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Mack Swain was born on February 16, 1876, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Mack Swain's birth date, February 16, 1876, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Mack’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mack Swain's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mack Swain combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Mack’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Mack Swain, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMoonoppositionPluto0.0° to 7.2° orb
Mack’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.5° to 1.4° orb
Mack’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.9° to 2.1° orb
Mack’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.3° to 2.4° orb
Mack’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileMars1.4° to 3.2° orb
Mack’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.8° to 2.8° orb
Mack’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb
Mack’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.2° orb
Mack’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileNeptune2.6° to 3.6° orb
Mack’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareJupiter2.7° to 3.6° orb
Mack’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableUranussquarePluto4.2° orb
Mack’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineUranus4.3° to 5.0° orb
Mack’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Mack’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.
⚷ ChironAries 22°42′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Mack may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresScorpio 11°24′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Mack is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosAries 3°37′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Mack is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 13°40′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Mack is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Mack leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron conjunction Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.9°
- Eros trine Jupiter 3.0°
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°).
Mack’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. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Mack is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Mack’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 in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Mercury, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 1.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mack Swain, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Mack’s cards
Every card is computed from February 16, 1876, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Mack Swain, 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
Mack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1536200, 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 Public Domain, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mack Swain at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Mack Swain.
Quick answers about Mack Swain’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mack Swain?
- Mack Swain was an Aquarius: born February 16, 1876, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
- What was Mack Swain's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 16, 1876 birth.
- What time was Mack Swain 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 Mack Swain's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the February 16, 1876 birth date.
- What was Mack Swain's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 16, 1876 birth date.
- Where was Mack Swain's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mack Swain's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
