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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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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 1880

1980

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Mario’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

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

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Mario sits

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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.

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.

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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

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. 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 Mario’s chart

Mario’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Mario Puzo, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • 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

    Mario’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarssextileUranus3.8° to 4.5° orb

    Mario’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto4.7° to 6.0° orb

    Mario’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.2° to 5.3° orb

    Mario’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune5.4° to 6.6° orb

    Mario’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableUranustrinePluto6.9° orb

    Mario’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • 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

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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

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

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Mario may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

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

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

    Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Mario is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.

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

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Mario is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

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

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

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Mario at their best with something to be proud of.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Mario is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Mario’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  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

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Mario is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Mario’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

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. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mario Puzo, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Mario’s cards

Every card is computed from October 15, 1920, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

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The Sun

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The Radiant Strategist

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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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

No birth time is on public record for Mario Puzo, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Mario’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q182870, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Mario Puzo at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey.
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 time was Mario Puzo born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What was Mario Puzo's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the October 15, 1920 birth date.
What was Mario Puzo's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 15, 1920 birth date.
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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