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Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson (born Brian Hugh Warner; January 5, 1969, Canton, United States, 20:05), aged 57, is an American musician.

Marilyn Manson’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Marilyn Manson’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Pioneer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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

The SSA recorded 1,398 American girls and 9 boys named Marilyn in 1969: 218th among girls and 3,233rd among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Marilyn’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Brian Hugh Warner, not the name they published under.

5

Expression · versatility

1

Soul Urge · independence

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on B (2) 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

4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1968, 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 Marilyn apart

Marilyn Manson was taught at Heritage Christian School and GlenOak High School.

Marilyn Manson was 20 when the work began in 1989.

Marilyn Manson was married Dita Von Teese.

Heather Dubrow 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
Heritage Christian School, GlenOak High School and Broward College
Instruments
voice
Working from
1989
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
96

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 to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Marilyn needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Marilyn wants to be loved

Marilyn 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 Marilyn, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Marilyn creates

How Marilyn makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Marilyn creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Marilyn is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Marilyn 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Marilyn runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

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

PrivateExpressive
Marilyn

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Marilyn

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

PracticalVisionary
Marilyn

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Marilyn

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Marilyn Manson

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

Read from the sky above Canton at 20:05, Marilyn Manson’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Canton that night

Computed for 40.80°N, at the documented birth time.

Algol stood nearest the zenith over Canton at the birth hour, 85.3° above the horizon in Perseus.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

Canton 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 Canton at all: they sit past the −49.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 95% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 31° down.

The name and the places

Born as
Brian Hugh Warner
Known as
Marilyn Manson
Born in
Canton, United States

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What Marilyn's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 寅.

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Wealth

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 1/3

Sacral authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

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.

Score your own chart →

The quick version

Capricorn Sun

Plays the long game. Wins it.

Marilyn Manson's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.

What Capricorn means →

Earth Monkey

Clever, playful, never bored.

Marilyn Manson was born on January 5, 1969, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 4

Plans, then plans the plan.

Marilyn Manson's birth date, January 5, 1969, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Marilyn’s chart

Marilyn’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.7° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.7° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.7° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 2.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.8° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.4° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.4° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.4° orbSun in Capricorn · 15°33′ · house 6☉15°Moon in Leo · 10°43′ · house 1☽10°Mercury in Aquarius · 2°19′ · house 7☿2°Venus in Pisces · 1°21′ · house 8♀1°Mars in Scorpio · 4°02′ · house 4♂4°Jupiter in Libra · 5°43′ · house 3♃5°Saturn in Aries · 18°55′ · house 9♄18°Uranus in Libra · 4°00′ · house 3♅4°Neptune in Scorpio · 27°55′ · house 4♆27°Pluto in Virgo · 25°05′ · house 2 · retrograde♇℞25°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLeo 20°52′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAqr 20°52′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCTau 12°46′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSco 12°46′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • MercurysquareMarsapplying · 1.7° orb

    Marilyn’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • MercurytrineUranusapplying · 1.7° orb

    Marilyn’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • JupiterconjunctionUranusseparating · 1.7° orb

    Marilyn’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • VenustrineMarsapplying · 2.7° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.8° orb

  • SunsquareSaturnapplying · 3.4° orb

  • MercurytrineJupiterapplying · 3.4° orb

  • VenussquareNeptuneseparating · 3.4° orb

  • MercurysextileNeptuneseparating · 4.4° orb

  • MoonsextileJupiterseparating · 5.0° orb

  • MoonsquareMarsseparating · 6.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 29°11′ · House 8

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 0°50′ · House 6

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 6°04′ · House 7

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 2°44′ · House 9

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°33′ · House 11

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Jupiter 0.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.4°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.3°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Ascendant 1.7°
  • Eros square Mars 2.0°
  • Eros trine Uranus 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.5°
  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 3.0°

Marilyn’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Leo; rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Moon; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Saturn; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Marilyn’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.

  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.0°
  • Sun quintile Mars 0.5°
  • Moon semi-square Pluto 0.6°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°

Marilyn’s houses

Marilyn’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LeoSun in Capricorn, house 6Moonself, body, how you arrive
2VirgoMercury in Aquarius, house 7Plutomoney, possessions, self-worth
3LibraVenus in Pisces, house 8Jupiter, Uranusmind, siblings, the local world
4ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 2Mars, Neptunehome, family, roots
5SagittariusJupiter in Libra, house 3emptycreativity, romance, play
6CapricornSaturn in Aries, house 9Sunwork, habits, health
7AquariusUranus in Libra, house 3Mercurypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 4Venusshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AriesMars in Scorpio, house 4Saturnbelief, travel, higher learning
10TaurusVenus in Pisces, house 8emptycareer, reputation, public life
11GeminiMercury in Aquarius, house 7emptyfriends, community, the future
12CancerMoon in Leo, house 1emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Marilyn’s family here

One relative of Marilyn Manson also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as Marilyn

Heather Dubrow was born on January 5, 1969 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Canton, at 40.8°N, nothing below −49.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Marilyn’s cards

Computed from January 5, 1969. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Marilyn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q186327 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Patrick Whitaker, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Marilyn Manson at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marilyn Manson.

Quick answers about Marilyn Manson’s chart

How old is Marilyn Manson?
Marilyn Manson is 57 years old, born January 5, 1969 in Canton, United States.
What zodiac sign is Marilyn Manson?
Marilyn Manson is a Capricorn: born January 5, 1969, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What is Marilyn Manson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 5, 1969 birth.
What time was Marilyn Manson born?
20:05 local time in Canton, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Marilyn Manson's rising sign?
Leo rising, calculated from the documented 20:05 birth time in Canton, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Marilyn Manson's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Marilyn Manson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 29°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Marilyn Manson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 22°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Marilyn Manson's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Moon sign, Leo; rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Moon; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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