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Mario Puzo

Mario Puzo (born October 15, 1920, New York City, United States; died 1999), was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist. Puzo is best remembered for The Godfather. Puzo's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Mario Puzo’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

Your match with Mario

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Mario Puzo’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Strategist

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

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

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

#438

US rank in 2025

~152,403

Americans share it since 1897

1980

its peak year

The SSA recorded 408 American boys named Mario in 1920: 276th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Mario’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

7

Soul Urge · understanding

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on M (4) and closes on O (6). Two values tie for most repeated, 6 and 9: care against empathy.

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

Mario’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

Amber · Blush · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Mario apart

David Trezeguet (1977) and Fela Kuti (1938) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Mario, according to the stars

Core essence

Mario makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Mario 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 Mario wants to be loved

Mario wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Mario even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Mario creates

How Mario makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Mario creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Mario 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Mario 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 Mario leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Mario has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Mario's birth date. Working below.

Where Mario sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Mario

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Mario

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

PrivateExpressive
Mario

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Mario

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

PracticalVisionary
Mario

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Mario

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

Tap each line where you sit.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Mario Puzo

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

Mario’s birth-night reference starDenebwhite · CygnusDeneb, in Cygnus. A white star, 77.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 15.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Deneb stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.8° above the horizon in Cygnus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 93 catalog stars were up in all.

New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon down and 16% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Mario's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet

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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Mario Puzo at a glance

Libra Sun

Makes the peace, keeps the peace.

Mario Puzo's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 15, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Metal Monkey

Turns problems into games.

Mario Puzo was born on October 15, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 1

Independent to the core.

Mario Puzo's birth date, October 15, 1920, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Mario’s chart

Mario’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.1° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.8° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.3° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.1° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 5.2° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 5.4° orbSun in Libra · 22°00′☉21°Moon in Sagittarius · 4°20′☽4°Mercury in Scorpio · 14°16′☿14°Venus in Scorpio · 19°30′♀19°Mars in Sagittarius · 27°54′♂27°Jupiter in Virgo · 10°14′♃10°Saturn in Virgo · 19°35′♄19°Uranus in Pisces · 2°02′ · retrograde♅℞2°Neptune in Leo · 13°29′♆13°Pluto in Cancer · 8°55′ · retrograde♇℞8°

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

  • stableVenussextileSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Mario’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune0.1° to 1.4° orb

    Mario’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableJupitersextilePluto1.2° to 1.4° orb

    Mario’s growth opens doors for their depths.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter3.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarssextileUranus3.8° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto4.7° to 6.0° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.2° to 5.3° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune5.4° to 6.6° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 3.1° to 15.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 7°34′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 8°06′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 26°50′ (moves 0.78° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 22°33′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 10°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.0°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 0.6°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Mars 1.1°
  • Chiron square Pluto 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.3°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.1°

Mario’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Mario’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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.4°

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What a Day Master is →

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Other Radiant Strategists

The Radiant Strategist explained →

Famous people with Life Path 1

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan

Mario’s cards

Computed from October 15, 1920. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Mario’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q182870 (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 Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Mario Puzo at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mario Puzo.

Quick answers about Mario Puzo’s chart

What zodiac sign was Mario Puzo?
Mario Puzo was a Libra: born October 15, 1920, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Mario Puzo's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 15, 1920 birth.
What was Mario Puzo's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Mario Puzo's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Mario Puzo's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Mario Puzo's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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