Mark Rober
Mark Rober (born March 11, 1980, Orange County, United States, 13:30), aged 46, is an American YouTuber, engineer and inventor. Rober's honours include Gold Play Button, Silver Play Button and Diamond Play Button.
Mark Rober’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Mark
Mark Rober’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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 30th among boys and 1,511th among girls in 1980, the year of this birth, with 14,169 American boys and 79 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on M (4) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver
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 1980, 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
Rupert Murdoch (1931) and Didier Drogba (1978) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Mark, according to the stars
Core essence
Mark feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Mark is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Mark is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Mark needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Mark wants to be loved
Mark wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Mark is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Mark creates
How Mark makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Mark creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Mark is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Mark Rober
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Orange County on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Orange County at 13:30, Mark Rober’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Orange County that night
Computed for 33.67°N, at the documented birth time.
Mirach stood nearest the zenith over Orange County at the birth hour, 87.1° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
From 33.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun -47° below the horizon, Moon down and 30% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Orange County, United States
- Lives in
- Sunnyvale · San Francisco
Wikidata records Sunnyvale and San Francisco as Mark Rober's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Orange County, Shared Places reads San Francisco as mixed for this chart: 50 of 100, 98th of 176 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Anchorage, United States, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Mark's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Peacemaker 天同, The Debater 巨門 in 未
Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 5/1
Emotional authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
6 planets retrograde · T-square onto Neptune · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Mark Rober's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time.
What Pisces means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyWit is the tool.
Mark Rober was born on March 11, 1980, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Mark Rober's birth date, March 11, 1980, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Mark’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Mark Rober's timed chart: Moon in the 7th house and Pluto in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Mark Rober's timed chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mark Rober combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Mark’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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunsquareNeptuneapplying · 1.2° orb
Mark’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SaturnsquareNeptuneapplying · 1.2° orb
Mark’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.5° orb
Mark’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SaturnsextileUranusseparating · 1.7° orb
SunoppositionSaturnapplying · 2.4° orb
VenustrineJupiterseparating · 2.5° orb
MarsconjunctionJupiterseparating · 3.2° orb
SuntrineUranusapplying · 4.0° orb
MoonsextileMercuryseparating · 4.3° orb
MarssquareUranusapplying · 4.5° orb
MercurysextileVenusapplying · 4.7° orb
VenustrineMarsseparating · 5.7° orb
MoonsquarePlutoapplying · 6.4° orb
MercuryoppositionJupiterapplying · 7.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Mark’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironTaurus 10°27′ · House 11
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 0°40′ · House 11
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 7°46′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 15°35′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 27°24′ · House 3
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Ascendant 0.4°
- Ceres trine Mars 0.7°
- Hygiea square Moon 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Eros conjunction Venus 2.0°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.6°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.7°
Mark’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Mark’s chart
T-square onto Neptune · Sun, Saturn, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Moon sesquiquadrate Mars 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
Mark’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Capricorn, house 7 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Pisces, house 9 | Mars | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Pisces, house 9 | Jupiter, Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Taurus, house 11 | Pluto | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 4 | Uranus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Virgo, house 3 | Neptune | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Virgo, house 3 | Moon | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Scorpio, house 5 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 6 | Sun, Mercury | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 2 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Taurus, house 11 | Venus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Pisces, house 9 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Born in United States
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on March 11
- Rupert Murdoch1931
- Didier Drogba1978
- Johnny Knoxville1971
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- Terrence Howard1969
- Joel Madden1979
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Shanna MoaklerAmerican actress and model
- Alexander LudwigCanadian actor, singer and model
- Lisa NiemiAmerican actress (1956-)
Other Pisces Monkey charts
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Other Tidal Explorers
- Holland TaylorAmerican actress
- Kimia HosseiniIranian actress
- Noah EmmerichAmerican actor
- Halit AkçatepeTurkish actor
Other Cancer risings with documented times
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Famous people with Life Path 5
- Dominik KotarskiCroatian association football player
- Nico SchlotterbeckGerman association football player
- Martín ZubimendiSpanish footballer (born 1999)
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Mark’s cards
Computed from March 11, 1980. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mark’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q24088544 (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 Newhcrossaint, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mark Rober.
Quick answers about Mark Rober’s chart
- How old is Mark Rober?
- Mark Rober is 46 years old, born March 11, 1980 in Orange County, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mark Rober?
- Mark Rober is a Pisces: born March 11, 1980, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time.
- What is Mark Rober's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 11, 1980 birth.
- What time was Mark Rober born?
- 13:30 local time in Orange County, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Mark Rober's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 13:30 birth time in Orange County, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Mark Rober's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mark Rober's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 10°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mark Rober's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 27°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mark Rober's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
