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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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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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

No US figure exists for 1876 — the SSA series begins 4 years later. Mack opened it at 125th, 104 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Mack’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

2

Soul Urge · closeness

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on M (4) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Mack’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Mack apart

Mack Swain lies at Huntsville Cemetery.

On Wikipedia the categories read Comedians from Utah, Male actors from Salt Lake City and Silent film comedians.

The Weeknd (1990) and Bebeto (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Buried at
Huntsville Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
26

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. Working below.

Where Mack sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Mack

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Mack

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Mack

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Mack

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Mack

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Mack

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Mack Swain

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City that night

Computed for 40.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Salt Lake City was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 83.4° up.

Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Salt Lake City sits at 40.8°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 Salt Lake City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 51% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 33° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Salt Lake City, United States

The death is recorded at Tacoma, Pierce County in 1935.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Mack Swain: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Mack's chart is

Chart pattern score

72 / 100 · Rare

Grand cross · 3-planet stellium in Aquarius · No Water planets

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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Aquarius Sun

Ideas 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.

What Aquarius means →

Fire Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Mack Swain was born on February 16, 1876, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 4

Structure is comfort.

Mack Swain's birth date, February 16, 1876, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Mack’s chart

Mack’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.9° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.5° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.5° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.9° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.2° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.2° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.3° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.3° orbSun in Aquarius · 27°31′☉27°Moon in Scorpio · 23°11′☽23°Mercury in Aquarius · 19°51′ · retrograde☿℞19°Venus in Aries · 2°09′♀2°Mars in Aries · 22°11′♂22°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 0°38′♃0°Saturn in Aquarius · 28°27′♄28°Uranus in Leo · 17°32′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Taurus · 0°39′♆0°Pluto in Taurus · 21°43′♇21°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableMercurysextileMars1.4° to 3.2° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.8° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn2.2° orb

  • stableSunsextileNeptune2.6° to 3.6° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter2.7° to 3.6° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto4.2° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus4.3° to 5.0° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 22°42′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 11°24′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 3°37′ (moves 0.72° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 13°40′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Mack’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Mack’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, the shape it makesT-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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Mack’s cards

Computed from February 16, 1876. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Mack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1536200 (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 Public Domain, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Mack Swain at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Mack Swain's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Mack Swain's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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