Mark Feeney
Mark Feeney (born July 28, 1957, Winchester, United States), aged 69, is an American journalist. Feeney's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Mark Feeney’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Mark
Mark Feeney’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal 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
Mark ranked 7th among boys and 1,164th among girls in 1957, the year of this birth, with 52,841 American boys and 83 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mark’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Gold · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1957, 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
Mark Feeney took the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2008, at 51.
Training came by way of Reading Memorial High School and Harvard College.
Wikipedia's editors put Mark Feeney under Writers from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brandeis University faculty and Brown University faculty.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929) and Harry Kane (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Reading Memorial High School, Harvard College and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (2008)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Mark, according to the stars
Core essence
Mark is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Mark is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Mark wants to be loved
Mark wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Mark and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Mark creates
How Mark makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Mark creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Mark 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Mark fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Feeney
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Winchester 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 Winchester that night
Computed for 42.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Winchester at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 12.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 42.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Winchester at all: they sit past the −47.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 5% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 8° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Winchester, United States
- Lives in
- Cambridge · Reading
Wikidata records Cambridge and Reading as Mark Feeney's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Mark Feeney: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Mark's chart is
Chart pattern score
77 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →Mark Feeney at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Mark Feeney's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 28, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Mark Feeney was born on July 28, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Mark Feeney's birth date, July 28, 1957, 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 Feeney's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mark Feeney combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Mark’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° Leo or 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
stableSaturntrineUranus0.6° to 0.7° orb
Mark’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
Mark’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.7° to 2.2° orb
Mark’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.3° to 2.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus1.4° to 2.3° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn2.1° to 3.0° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.6° to 3.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.2° to 4.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.1° to 5.0° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.2° to 5.4° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.0° to 5.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire7 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Mark’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 15°20′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 27°32′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 23°27′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 19°41′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 6°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Mars 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.9°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.4°
Mark’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Mark’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
More people like Mark
Other writers
- Afua Cooper1957
- Forrest Gander1956
- George Saunders1958
- Claudia Emerson1957
- Natalie Angier1958
- Liu Xiaobo1955
Born in United States
- Denis LearyAmerican actor and comedian (born 1957)
- Michael WilliamsonAmerican photographer
- Bill CassidyAmerican physician and politician (born 1957)
- Deanne FitzmauriceAmerican photographer
- Matthew BrelisAmerican journalist (1957- )
- Kenneth R. WeissAmerican journalist
More charts like Mark’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Paul D. BoyerAmerican biochemist
- Luc MontagnierFrench virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
- Françoise Barré-SinoussiFrench virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV
Born in Rooster years
- GarrinchaBrazilian association football player
- Paul RuddAmerican actor
- Eddie RedmayneEnglish actor
Also born on July 28
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929
- Harry Kane1993
- Charles Hard Townes1915
- Anne Wojcicki1973
- Ali Krieger1984
- Lori Loughlin1964
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- John SteinbeckAmerican writer
- Michael JordanAmerican basketball player and businessman
- Bradley CooperAmerican actor
Other Leo Rooster charts
- Nikola TopićSerbian basketball player (born 2005)
- Pacôme DadietFrench basketball player (born 2005)
- V. J. EdgecombeBahamian basketball player (born 2005)
- Lauren RiihimakiCanadian YouTuber (born 1993)
Other Gilded Guardians
- Demario DavisAmerican football player (born 1989)
- Isaiah McDuffieAmerican football player
- Skyy MooreAmerican football player
- Landon DickersonAmerican football player (born 1998)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Cristiano RonaldoPortuguese association football player
- Emmanuel MacronPresident of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017
- Hillary ClintonAmerican politician and diplomat
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Mark’s cards
Computed from July 28, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mark’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1145124 (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 Mfeene, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mark Feeney 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 Feeney.
Quick answers about Mark Feeney’s chart
- How old is Mark Feeney?
- Mark Feeney is 69 years old, born July 28, 1957 in Winchester, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mark Feeney?
- Mark Feeney is a Leo: born July 28, 1957, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Mark Feeney's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 28, 1957 birth.
- What is Mark Feeney's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mark Feeney's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mark Feeney's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mark Feeney's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
