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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Marlon
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.
How common is the name Marlon in the U.S.?
#1105
US rank in 2025
~31,292
Americans share it since 1914
1972
its peak year
Marlon ranked 1,660th in 1924, the year of this birth, with 23 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Marlon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Marlon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1924, 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 Marlon apart
The shelf Marlon Brando is read from: The Godfather, Apocalypse Now and On the Waterfront.
The classrooms behind this chart: Actors Studio and Shattuck-Saint Mary's School.
The working life starts in 1944, at 20.
Cause of death is recorded as respiratory failure; the grave is at Tahiti.
Marlon Brando was born to Dodie Brando and Marlon Brando, Sr., married Movita Castaneda and Tarita Teriipaia and raised 5 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Marlon Brando under Brando family, American Indigenous rights activists and Activists for Native American rights.
Jane Goodall (1934) and Eddie Murphy (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- The Godfather, Apocalypse Now and On the Waterfront
- Educated at
- Actors Studio, Shattuck-Saint Mary's School and Libertyville High School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1973), Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama (1973) and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award (1996)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1944
- Cause of death
- respiratory failure
- Buried at
- Tahiti
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 158
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. Working below.
Where Marlon sits
Six lines
Marlon’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 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.
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 Marlon Brando
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Read from the sky above Omaha at 23:00, Marlon Brando’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Omaha that night
Computed for 41.26°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Omaha was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 77.4° up.
Of the 100 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 41.3°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 Omaha at all: they sit past the −48.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Omaha, United States
- Lived in
- Evanston · Libertyville
Wikidata records Evanston and Libertyville as Marlon Brando's home, against Omaha as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2004.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Marlon's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Purple Star 紫微, The Minister 天相 in 辰
Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
88 / 100 · One in a thousand
Yod onto Neptune · Born on the New Moon · 3-planet stellium in Aries
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Marlon Brando's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time.
What Aries means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
MoonsquarePlutoseparating · 2.8° orb
MercuryoppositionSaturnapplying · 2.9° orb
SunsquareMarsapplying · 3.6° orb
SuntrineNeptuneapplying · 3.6° orb
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 3.9° orb
MoonsquareMarsapplying · 4.6° orb
MoontrineNeptuneapplying · 4.7° orb
SuntrineJupiterapplying · 5.7° orb
MoontrineJupiterapplying · 6.8° orb
MarsoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironAries 20°07′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 28°40′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Libra 28°44′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 13°13′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 1°20′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Marlon’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Marlon’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| 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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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Marlon’s cards
Computed from April 3, 1924. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Marlon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q34012 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marlon Brando.
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.
- 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.
- What was Marlon Brando's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
