Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens (born August 14, 1951, New York City, United States), aged 75, is an American art critic. Stevens's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography.
Mark Stevens’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Mark
Mark Stevens’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, 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
Of the names registered in 1951, Mark came 20th among boys and 2,047th among girls, carried by 21,201 American boys and 24 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mark’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
2
Soul Urge · closeness
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on M (4) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against 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
2 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, 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 Stevens took the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography in 2004, at 53.
King's College shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Mark Stevens: American art critics, The New Republic people and Vanity Fair (magazine) people.
Mila Kunis (1983) and Halle Berry (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- King's College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2005) and National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography (2004)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 1
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.
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 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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Mark 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: Mark is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Mark is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Mark does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Stevens
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Eltanin stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.6° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 81 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°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 New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 94% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 11° down.
How unusual Mark's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · Venus retrograde · 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 →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Mark Stevens's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 14, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Mark Stevens was born on August 14, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Better with someone at their back.
Mark Stevens's birth date, August 14, 1951, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Mark’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mark Stevens' date-only chart is Sun conjunction Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Mark Stevens combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Mark’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 24° Capricorn 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
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.0° to 2.0° orb
Mark’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareUranus1.8° to 1.9° orb
Mark’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° orb
Mark’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.3° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.5° to 2.7° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.4° to 3.7° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune5.2° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.5° to 5.6° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 27°00′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 13°41′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 19°34′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 18°55′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 4°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Pluto 0.0°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.6°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.5°
- Eros trine Sun 1.5°
- Eros opposition Neptune 2.2°
Mark’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Mark’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn 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.
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
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Born in Rabbit years
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- Whitney HoustonAmerican singer, actress, and film producer
Also born on August 14
- Mila Kunis1983
- Halle Berry1966
- Jay-Jay Okocha1973
- Doechii1998
- Yoo Jae-suk1972
- Huening Kai2002
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- J. K. RowlingBritish author and philanthropist
- Alfred NobelSwedish chemist and inventor
Other Leo Rabbit charts
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Famous people with Life Path 2
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Mark’s cards
Computed from August 14, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mark’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q23011798 (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.
The same Mark Stevens 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 Stevens.
Quick answers about Mark Stevens’s chart
- How old is Mark Stevens?
- Mark Stevens is 75 years old, born August 14, 1951 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mark Stevens?
- Mark Stevens is a Leo: born August 14, 1951, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Mark Stevens's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 14, 1951 birth.
- What is Mark Stevens's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mark Stevens's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mark Stevens's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mark Stevens's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
