Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando (born April 3, 1924, Omaha, United States, 23:00; died 2004), was an American actor. Brando is best remembered for One-Eyed Jacks, The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris. Brando's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.
Marlon Brando’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
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Marlon Brando’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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Marlon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
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What the chart says
Marlon, according to the stars
Core essence
Marlon leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Marlon is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Marlon runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Marlon needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Marlon wants to be loved
Marlon 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 Marlon is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Marlon creates
How Marlon makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Marlon creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Marlon is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Marlon 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Marlon does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Marlon's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Marlon Brando's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Wood Rat
Wood RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Marlon Brando was born on April 3, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Marlon Brando's birth date, April 3, 1924, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Marlon’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Marlon Brando's timed chart: Jupiter in the 1st house and Uranus in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Marlon Brando's timed chart is Jupiter square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Moon and Mercury, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Marlon Brando combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Marlon’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.
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
JupitersquareUranusapplying · 0.9° orb
Marlon’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunconjunctionMoonapplying · 1.1° orb
Marlon’s core identity and feelings act as one.
MarssextileUranusapplying · 1.3° orb
Marlon’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupitertrineNeptuneseparating · 2.1° orb
Marlon’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoonsquarePlutoseparating · 2.8° orb
Marlon’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MercuryoppositionSaturnapplying · 2.9° orb
Marlon’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
SunsquareMarsapplying · 3.6° orb
Marlon’s core identity grinds against their drive.
SuntrineNeptuneapplying · 3.6° orb
Marlon’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 3.9° orb
Marlon’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoonsquareMarsapplying · 4.6° orb
Marlon’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoontrineNeptuneapplying · 4.7° orb
Marlon’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SuntrineJupiterapplying · 5.7° orb
Marlon’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
MoontrineJupiterapplying · 6.8° orb
Marlon’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
MarsoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.4° orb
Marlon’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Marlon’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.
⚷ ChironAries 20°07′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Marlon may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresPisces 28°40′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Marlon is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ Eros ℞Libra 28°44′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Marlon is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaAries 13°13′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Marlon feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 1°20′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Marlon that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Hygiea conjunction Moon 0.1°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 1.4°
- Eros opposition Mercury 1.5°
- Chiron square Mars 2.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Ascendant 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 2.5°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.9°
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°).
Marlon’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♂ Mars13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter11 pts
rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Marlon is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Marlon’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Moon, MercuryThree 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.
Grand trine · Sun, Jupiter, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Moon, Jupiter, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Pluto, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Moon · Mars, Pluto, MoonAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Neptune · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 0.4°
- Moon semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
Marlon’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 1 | Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 12 | Mars | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aquarius | Uranus in Pisces, house 4 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Pisces | Neptune in Leo, house 9 | Uranus | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 2 | Sun, Moon, Mercury | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Taurus | Venus in Taurus, house 6 | Venus | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Gemini | Mercury in Aries, house 5 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Cancer | Moon in Aries, house 5 | Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Leo | Sun in Aries, house 5 | Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Virgo | Mercury in Aries, house 5 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Libra | Venus in Taurus, house 6 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 8 | Saturn | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Marlon’s cards
Every card is computed from April 3, 1924, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Marlon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q34012, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 None visible/Paramount Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Marlon Brando at Wikipedia, marlonbrando.com, IMDb, X 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.
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Quick answers about Marlon Brando’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Marlon Brando?
- Marlon Brando was an Aries: born April 3, 1924, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat.
- What was Marlon Brando's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 3, 1924 birth.
- What time was Marlon Brando born?
- 23:00 local time in Omaha, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Marlon Brando's rising sign?
- Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 23:00 birth time in Omaha, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall was Marlon Brando?
- Marlon Brando was 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Marlon Brando's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 3, 1924 birth date.
- What was Marlon Brando's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 3, 1924 birth time.
- Where was Marlon Brando's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 1°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Marlon Brando's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
