Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Mark E. Neely, Jr. (born November 10, 1944, Amarillo, United States), aged 81, is an American historian (born 1944). Neely,'s honours include Pulitzer Prize for History and Wilbur Cross Medal.
Mark E. Neely, Jr.’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Mark
Mark E. Neely, Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Mark in the U.S.?
#245
US rank in 2025
~1,366,672
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
In 1944, 2,742 American boys were registered Mark — 93rd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mark’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mark’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1944, 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 Mark apart
The Pulitzer Prize for History came in 1992, when Mark E. Neely, Jr. was 48.
Study took Mark E. Neely, Jr. to Yale University.
On Wikipedia the categories read Pennsylvania State University faculty, Saint Louis University faculty and Iowa State University faculty.
Tim Rice 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
- Yale University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1992) and Wilbur Cross Medal (1995)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Mark, according to the stars
Core essence
Mark does not do surface. The core of Mark is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Mark is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Mark is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Mark needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Mark wants to be loved
Mark wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Mark and watch them fall for you again.
How Mark creates
How Mark makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Mark creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Mark 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Mark is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Mark 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 Mark's birth date. Working below.
Where Mark sits
Six lines
Mark’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Amarillo 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 Amarillo that night
Computed for 35.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Amarillo at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 9.5° of the exact zenith.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Amarillo sits at 35.2°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 −54.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 21% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
How unusual Mark's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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 →Mark E. Neely, Jr. at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Mark E. Neely, Jr.'s Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 10, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Mark E. Neely, Jr. was born on November 10, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Mark E. Neely, Jr.'s birth date, November 10, 1944, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Mark’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mark E. Neely, Jr.'s date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Mark E. Neely, Jr. combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Mark’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Virgo 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
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 7.5° orb
Mark’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.7° to 1.8° orb
Mark’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunconjunctionMars1.1° to 1.4° orb
Mark’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableUranussextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.5° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 6.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Mark’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 29°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 6°39′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aries 28°27′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 10°46′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 29°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.7°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 1.1°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.2°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.3°
Mark’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Mark’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 semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
Born the same day as Mark
Tim Rice was born on November 10, 1944 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. Amarillo sits at 35.2°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Mark
Other historians
- Bill Dedman1960
- John Lewis Gaddis1941
- Walter A. McDougall1946
- Richard Rhodes1937
- Alan Taylor1955
- Mike Wallace1942
Born in United States
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- Danny DeVitoAmerican actor, comedian, director and producer
- Marvin HamlischAmerican composer and conductor
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on November 10
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- Pedro PorroSpanish footballer (born 1999)
- Anthony GordonEnglish association football player (born 2001)
- Dominik KotarskiCroatian association football player
Other Scorpio Monkey charts
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- Jerry JonesAmerican businessman and owner of the Dallas Cowboys
Famous people with Life Path 3
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Mark’s cards
Computed from November 10, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mark’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6767464 (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 Earl McDonald, NARA Staff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mark E. Neely, Jr. at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mark E. Neely, Jr..
Quick answers about Mark E. Neely, Jr.’s chart
- How old is Mark E. Neely, Jr.?
- Mark E. Neely, Jr. is 81 years old, born November 10, 1944 in Amarillo, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mark E. Neely, Jr.?
- Mark E. Neely, Jr. is a Scorpio: born November 10, 1944, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Mark E. Neely, Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 10, 1944 birth.
- What is Mark E. Neely, Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mark E. Neely, Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mark E. Neely, Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mark E. Neely, Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
