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Marilyn Horne

Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934, Bradford, United States), aged 92, is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer (born 1934). Horne's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, National Medal of Arts and International Opera Award.

Marilyn Horne’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Water Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Marilyn Horne’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#761

US rank in 2025

~374,857

Americans share it since 1899

1947

its peak year

Marilyn ranked 17th among girls and 1,070th among boys in 1934, the year of this birth, with 9,382 American girls and 38 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Marilyn’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

3

Soul Urge · being heard

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

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

Marilyn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

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 1933, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Marilyn apart

Marilyn Horne took the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1995, at 61.

USC Thornton School of Music and Music Academy of the West shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1954, at 20.

The family line: married Henry Lewis.

Wikipedia's editors put Marilyn Horne under Music Academy of the West faculty, American operatic mezzo-sopranos and Oberlin Conservatory of Music faculty.

The same date carries Richard Wernick. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
USC Thornton School of Music, Music Academy of the West and Long Beach Polytechnic High School
Instruments
voice
Awards
International Opera Award (2023), Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement (2005) and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1995)
Working from
1954
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
31

What the chart says

Marilyn, according to the stars

Core essence

Marilyn is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Marilyn is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Marilyn needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Marilyn needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Marilyn wants to be loved

Marilyn wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Marilyn be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Marilyn creates

How Marilyn 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. Marilyn 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: Marilyn is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Marilyn is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

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. Marilyn 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 Marilyn's birth date. Working below.

Where Marilyn sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Marilyn

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Marilyn

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

PrivateExpressive
Marilyn

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Marilyn

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

PracticalVisionary
Marilyn

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Marilyn

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bradford on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Marilyn’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 81.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 34.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Bradford that night

Computed for 41.96°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Capella stood nearest the zenith over Bradford at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.3° above the horizon in Auriga.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.

From 42.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.

How unusual Marilyn's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

Grand cross · 1 unaspected planet · Venus retrograde

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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Marilyn Horne in 15 seconds

Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Marilyn Horne's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 16, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Water Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Marilyn Horne was born on January 16, 1934, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Marilyn Horne's birth date, January 16, 1934, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Marilyn’s chart

Marilyn’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 0° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.1° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.1° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.2° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.7° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.1° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.1° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.1° orbSun in Capricorn · 25°54′☉25°Moon in Aquarius · 11°59′☽11°Mercury in Capricorn · 23°43′☿23°Venus in Aquarius · 23°37′ · retrograde♀℞23°Mars in Aquarius · 15°24′♂15°Jupiter in Libra · 22°28′♃22°Saturn in Aquarius · 16°08′♄16°Uranus in Aries · 23°33′♅23°Neptune in Virgo · 12°06′ · retrograde♆℞12°Pluto in Cancer · 23°36′ · retrograde♇℞23°

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

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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

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Marilyn’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.9° orb

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

  • stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb

    Marilyn’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableUranussquarePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.4° to 1.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter0.5° to 2.0° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.1° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus1.8° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSunoppositionPluto1.8° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.9° to 2.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 29°06′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 14°51′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 1°34′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 19°01′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 9°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.5°

Marilyn’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    6 major aspects

Configurations in Marilyn’s chart

  • grand cross, the shape it makesGrand cross · Mercury, Pluto, Jupiter, UranusTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
  • grand cross, the shape it makesGrand cross · Jupiter, Uranus, Sun, PlutoTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus quincunx Pluto 0.0°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°

Born the same day as Marilyn

Richard Wernick was born on January 16, 1934 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 42.0°N, the sky above Bradford stops at −48.0° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Marilyn’s cards

Computed from January 16, 1934. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Marilyn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q186514 (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 PBS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Marilyn Horne at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

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Quick answers about Marilyn Horne’s chart

How old is Marilyn Horne?
Marilyn Horne is 92 years old, born January 16, 1934 in Bradford, United States.
What zodiac sign is Marilyn Horne?
Marilyn Horne is a Capricorn: born January 16, 1934, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Marilyn Horne's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 16, 1934 birth.
What is Marilyn Horne's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Marilyn Horne's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Marilyn Horne's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Marilyn Horne's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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