Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942, St. Louis, United States), aged 84, is an American actress (born 1942). Mason's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Marsha Mason’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Marsha
Marsha Mason’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Marsha in the U.S.?
#7749
US rank in 2025
~104,442
Americans share it since 1908
1952
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,570 American girls and 7 boys named Marsha in 1942: 156th among girls and 3,111th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Marsha’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Marsha’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · 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 1942, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Marsha apart
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama came in 1974, when Marsha Mason was 32.
The schooling ran through Nerinx Hall High School and HB Studio.
Marsha Mason was 24 when the work began in 1966.
The family line: married Neil Simon.
Wikipedia files Marsha Mason under Simon family, New Mexico Democrats and Catholics from New Mexico.
Adi Godrej shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Nerinx Hall High School, HB Studio and Webster University
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama (1974) and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy (1978)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actress
- Working from
- 1966
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 43
What the chart says
Marsha, according to the stars
Core essence
Marsha 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 Marsha 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, Marsha feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Marsha needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Marsha wants to be loved
Marsha wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Marsha be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Marsha creates
How Marsha 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. Marsha 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: Marsha is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Marsha 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Marsha scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Marsha's birth date. Working below.
Where Marsha sits
Six lines
Marsha’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Marsha Mason
Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Louis 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 St. Louis that night
Computed for 38.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at St. Louis was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 80.9° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
St. Louis sits at 38.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −51.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from St. Louis on any night.
The Moon, 91% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 18° below the horizon.
How unusual Marsha's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Marsha Mason's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 3, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Marsha Mason was born on April 3, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Marsha Mason's birth date, April 3, 1942, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Marsha’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Marsha Mason's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Marsha Mason combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Marsha’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Scorpio 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
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 1.4° orb
Marsha’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.8° orb
Marsha’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableVenussquareUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Marsha’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.3° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune0.3° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.6° to 2.2° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn1.2° to 2.0° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter2.6° to 3.5° orb
stableSunsextileMars2.8° to 3.2° orb
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 2.0° to 16.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Marsha’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 8°14′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 6°48′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 3°54′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 7°18′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 13°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.3°
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 2.7°
Marsha’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Marsha’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
Marsha’s family here
One relative of Marsha Mason also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Marsha
Adi Godrej was born on April 3, 1942 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. St. Louis sits at 38.6°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on April 3
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Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Russell CroweNew Zealand actor
- Wisława SzymborskaPolish poet, Nobel Prize winner
- Octavio PazMexican writer, poet an diplomat
Other Aries Horse charts
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Other Radiant Pioneers
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Famous people with Life Path 5
- Moira MagnesonAmerican poet
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Marsha’s cards
Computed from April 3, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Marsha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235211 (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 Marsha_Mason_and_Omar_Sangare_at_Dialogue_ONE.jpg: PathfinderPL derivative work: B3t (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Marsha Mason at Wikipedia, 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 Marsha Mason.
Quick answers about Marsha Mason’s chart
- How old is Marsha Mason?
- Marsha Mason is 84 years old, born April 3, 1942 in St. Louis, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Marsha Mason?
- Marsha Mason is an Aries: born April 3, 1942, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Marsha Mason's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 3, 1942 birth.
- What is Marsha Mason's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Marsha Mason's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Marsha Mason's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Marsha Mason's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
