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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Horse, with 
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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 1880
1952
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Marsha’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Marsha sits
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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 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.
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Marsha Mason in 15 seconds
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. 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.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Marsha Mason, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Marsha’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.3° orb
Marsha’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.6° to 2.2° orb
Marsha’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.2° to 2.0° orb
Marsha’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
Marsha’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb
Marsha’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileJupiter2.6° to 3.5° orb
Marsha’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSunsextileMars2.8° to 3.2° orb
Marsha’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 8°14′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Marsha performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresPisces 6°48′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Marsha is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 3°54′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Marsha is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaGemini 7°18′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Marsha needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 13°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Marsha that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Marsha’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Marsha is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Marsha’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Marsha Mason, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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 with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Marsha’s cards
Every card is computed from April 3, 1942, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for Marsha Mason, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Marsha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235211, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse.
- 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 time was Marsha Mason born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Marsha Mason's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 3, 1942 birth date.
- What is Marsha Mason's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 3, 1942 birth date.
- 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.
