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Marcia Cross

Marcia Cross (born March 25, 1962, Marlborough, United States, 10:49), aged 64, is an American actress.

Marcia Cross’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Marcia Cross’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Strategist

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#3434

US rank in 2025

~133,604

Americans share it since 1880

1951

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Marcia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Marcia apart

Elton John (1947) and Aretha Franklin (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Marcia, according to the stars

Core essence

Marcia leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Marcia is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Marcia 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 Marcia 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 Marcia wants to be loved

Marcia 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 Marcia creates

How Marcia makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Marcia creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Marcia is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Marcia is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Marcia leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Marcia 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 Marcia's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Marcia sits

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Marcia’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Marcia

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Marcia

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Marcia

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Marcia

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Marcia

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Marcia

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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If you only read one paragraph

Aries Sun

Starts the thing. Then plans it.

Marcia Cross's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Marcia Cross was born on March 25, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Marcia Cross's birth date, March 25, 1962, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Marcia’s chart

Marcia’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.2° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.4° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.6° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.9° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.2° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.3° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.9° orbSun in Aries · 4°31′ · house 10☉4°Moon in Scorpio · 22°42′ · house 5☽22°Mercury in Pisces · 15°25′ · house 9☿15°Venus in Aries · 18°30′ · house 10♀18°Mars in Pisces · 10°27′ · house 9♂10°Jupiter in Aquarius · 29°57′ · house 8♃29°Saturn in Aquarius · 8°52′ · house 8♄8°Uranus in Leo · 27°04′ · house 2 · retrograde♅℞27°Neptune in Scorpio · 13°04′ · house 5 · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Virgo · 8°13′ · house 3 · retrograde♇℞8°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCnc 10°14′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCap 10°14′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCPsc 17°18′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICVir 17°18′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
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Placements

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AscendantCancer
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MarsoppositionPlutoseparating · 2.2° orb

    Marcia’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • MercurytrineNeptuneseparating · 2.4° orb

    Marcia’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • MarstrineNeptuneapplying · 2.6° orb

    Marcia’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • JupiteroppositionUranusseparating · 2.9° orb

    Marcia’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • SaturnsquareNeptuneapplying · 4.2° orb

    Marcia’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • SunsextileSaturnapplying · 4.3° orb

    Marcia’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MoonsquareUranusapplying · 4.4° orb

    Marcia’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.9° orb

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

  • MercuryconjunctionMarsseparating · 5.0° orb

    Marcia’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MercuryoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.2° orb

    Marcia’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

Marcia’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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 8°09′ · House 9

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Marcia absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 0°27′ · House 12

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Marcia feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 28°42′ · House 9

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Marcia is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 16°15′ · House 8

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Marcia is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 16°27′ · House 3

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Marcia exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Chiron opposition Pluto 0.1°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.0°
  • Chiron trine Ascendant 2.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 2.2°
  • Chiron conjunction Mars 2.3°

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°).

Marcia’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♂ Mars9.5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Marcia is read as acting first and reflecting after.

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 Marcia’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.7°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 1.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°

Marcia’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CancerMoon in Scorpio, house 5emptyself, body, how you arrive
2LeoSun in Aries, house 10Uranusmoney, possessions, self-worth
3VirgoMercury in Pisces, house 9Plutomind, siblings, the local world
4LibraVenus in Aries, house 10emptyhome, family, roots
5ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 3Moon, Neptunecreativity, romance, play
6SagittariusJupiter in Aquarius, house 8emptywork, habits, health
7CapricornSaturn in Aquarius, house 8emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AquariusUranus in Leo, house 2Jupiter, Saturnshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 5Mercury, Marsbelief, travel, higher learning
10AriesMars in Pisces, house 9Sun, Venuscareer, reputation, public life
11TaurusVenus in Aries, house 10emptyfriends, community, the future
12GeminiMercury in Pisces, house 9emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Marcia’s cards

Every card is computed from March 25, 1962, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Strategist

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Marcia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189547, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Marcia Cross at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

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.

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Quick answers about Marcia Cross’s chart

How old is Marcia Cross?
Marcia Cross is 64 years old, born March 25, 1962 in Marlborough, United States.
What zodiac sign is Marcia Cross?
Marcia Cross is an Aries: born March 25, 1962, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger.
What is Marcia Cross's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 25, 1962 birth.
What time was Marcia Cross born?
10:49 local time in Marlborough, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Marcia Cross's rising sign?
Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 10:49 birth time in Marlborough, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Marcia Cross's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the March 25, 1962 birth date.
What is Marcia Cross's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 8°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 25, 1962 birth time.
Where is Marcia Cross's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 16°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Marcia Cross's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9.5 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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