Marcus Allen
Marcus Allen (born March 26, 1960, San Diego, United States), aged 66, is an American football player and analyst (born 1960). Allen has played for Kansas City Chiefs and USC Trojans football. Allen's honours include Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Marcus Allen’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Marcus
Marcus Allen’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Marcus in the U.S.?
#258
US rank in 2025
~242,999
Americans share it since 1880
1984
its peak year
In 1960, 1,326 American boys and 6 girls were registered Marcus — 210th among boys and 6,120th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Marcus’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on M (4) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Marcus’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, 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 Marcus apart
Marcus Allen was taught at Lincoln High School.
Marcus Allen was married Kathryn Edwards.
On Wikipedia the categories read African-American sports commentators, Los Angeles Raiders players and College Football Hall of Fame inductees.
Jennifer Grey shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Lincoln High School
- Sport
- American football
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
What the chart says
Marcus, according to the stars
Core essence
Marcus 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 Marcus 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.
How Marcus wants to be loved
Marcus 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 Marcus, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Marcus creates
How Marcus makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Marcus creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Marcus 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Marcus 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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Marcus goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Marcus's birth date. Working below.
Where Marcus sits
Six lines
Marcus’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Marcus Allen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Diego 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 Diego that night
Computed for 32.72°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over San Diego at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
San Diego sits at 32.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from San Diego at all: they sit past the −57.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 35° down.
How unusual Marcus's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →Marcus Allen at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Marcus Allen's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 26, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Marcus Allen was born on March 26, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Marcus Allen's birth date, March 26, 1960, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Marcus’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Marcus Allen's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Marcus Allen combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Marcus’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Pisces or Aries 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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.3° to 1.3° orb
Marcus’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
Marcus’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.0° to 3.9° orb
Marcus’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.7° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn3.8° to 5.0° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune4.0° to 5.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.4° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMarsoppositionUranusorb from 7.4° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Marcus’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces or Aquarius during this date
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 11°48′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 6°37′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 17°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 25°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.2°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.0°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.5°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.7°
Marcus’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Marcus’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.
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 0.3°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 1.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 2.0°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 2.4°
Born the same day as Marcus
Jennifer Grey was born on March 26, 1960 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. San Diego sits at 32.7°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on March 26
- Richard Dawkins1941
- Larry Page1973
- Diana Ross1944
- Martin Short1950
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Fellow Yin Water day masters
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- John RzeznikAmerican singer-songwriter and record producer
- Hong Eun-chaeSouth Korean singer
Other Aries Rat charts
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Other Tidal Visionarys
- Brigitte BardotFrench actress, singer, animal rights activist
- Benazir Bhutto11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan
- Günter GrassGerman novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor
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Famous people with Life Path 9
- Rachel WeiszBritish actress
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- Dua LipaBritish singer-songwriter
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Marcus’s cards
Computed from March 26, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Marcus’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q379491 (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 Pfc. Victor Blanco, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Marcus Allen 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 Marcus Allen.
Quick answers about Marcus Allen’s chart
- How old is Marcus Allen?
- Marcus Allen is 66 years old, born March 26, 1960 in San Diego, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Marcus Allen?
- Marcus Allen is an Aries: born March 26, 1960, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Marcus Allen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 26, 1960 birth.
- How tall is Marcus Allen?
- Marcus Allen is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Marcus Allen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Marcus Allen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces or Aquarius, changing sign during the birth date. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Marcus Allen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Marcus Allen's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
