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Marc Benioff

Marc Benioff (born September 25, 1964, San Francisco, United States), aged 62, is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Marc Benioff’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Marc Benioff’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Visionary

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Marc in the U.S.?

#1237

US rank in 2025

~141,137

Americans share it since 1901

1970

its peak year

In 1964, 3,084 American boys and 9 girls were registered Marc — 113th among boys and 4,839th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Marc’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

3

Soul Urge · being heard

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on M (4) and closes on C (3). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

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

Marc’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Sapphire, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid

Lavender · Blush · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1964, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Marc apart

The Knight of the Legion of Honour came in 2022, when Marc Benioff was 58.

The schooling ran through Burlingame High School and USC Marshall School of Business.

Will Smith (1968) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Burlingame High School, USC Marshall School of Business and University of Southern California
Awards
Knight of the Legion of Honour (2022)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
18

What the chart says

Marc, according to the stars

Core essence

Marc makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Marc is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

How Marc wants to be loved

Marc wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Marc openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Marc creates

How Marc makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Marc creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Marc is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Marc is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Marc fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Marc's birth date. Working below.

Where Marc sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Marc

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Marc

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Marc

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Marc

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

PracticalVisionary
Marc

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Marc

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 Marc Benioff

Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco 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 San Francisco that night

Computed for 37.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at San Francisco was Sadr, in Cygnus, 86.9° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.

San Francisco sits at 37.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −52.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from San Francisco on any night.

The Moon, 77% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.

How unusual Marc's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 planet at a critical degree

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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If you only read one paragraph

Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Marc Benioff's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 25, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Wood Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Marc Benioff was born on September 25, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Marc Benioff's birth date, September 25, 1964, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Marc’s chart

Marc’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.5° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.8° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.8° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.9° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.5° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.7° orbSun in Libra · 2°43′☉2°Moon in Taurus · 25°25′☽25°Mercury in Virgo · 17°32′☿17°Venus in Leo · 18°48′♀18°Mars in Leo · 6°28′♂6°Jupiter in Taurus · 25°55′ · retrograde♃℞25°Saturn in Aquarius · 29°27′ · retrograde♄℞29°Uranus in Virgo · 11°51′♅11°Neptune in Scorpio · 16°00′♆15°Pluto in Virgo · 14°39′♇14°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 7.6° orb

    Marc’s feelings and growth act as one.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune0.8° to 2.3° orb

    Marc’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb

    Marc’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.1° to 3.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune2.3° to 3.3° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.8° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars3.5° to 3.9° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn3.5° orb

  • stableUranussextileNeptune4.1° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.9° to 6.5° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Marc’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 15°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 28°33′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 8°17′ (moves 0.83° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 13°45′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 28°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.3°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 0.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.9°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.1°
  • Eros sextile Mars 1.8°
  • Chiron opposition Mercury 1.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.9°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 2.2°

Marc’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Marc’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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 1.5°
  • Sun semi-square Neptune 1.7°

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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?

Marc’s cards

Computed from September 25, 1964. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Marc’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1521908 (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.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marc Benioff.

Quick answers about Marc Benioff’s chart

How old is Marc Benioff?
Marc Benioff is 62 years old, born September 25, 1964 in San Francisco, United States.
What zodiac sign is Marc Benioff?
Marc Benioff is a Libra: born September 25, 1964, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Marc Benioff's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 25, 1964 birth.
What is Marc Benioff's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Marc Benioff's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Marc Benioff's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Marc Benioff's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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