Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947, Louisville, United States), aged 79, is an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Norman is best known for The Color Purple. Norman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and star on Playwrights' Sidewalk.
Marsha Norman’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Marsha
Marsha Norman’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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 4,339 American girls and 9 boys named Marsha in 1947: 88th among girls and 2,799th 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 record Marsha Norman is measured by: The Color Purple.
Marsha Norman was taught at University of Louisville and Agnes Scott College.
Stephen King 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.
- Known for
- The Color Purple
- Educated at
- University of Louisville and Agnes Scott College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1983) and Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (1991)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Tony Award for Best Original Score
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 12
What the chart says
Marsha, according to the stars
Core essence
Marsha notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Marsha is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Marsha is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Marsha needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Marsha wants to be loved
Marsha wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Marsha gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Marsha creates
How Marsha makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Marsha creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Marsha is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Marsha is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Marsha 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 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 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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Norman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Louisville 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 Louisville that night
Computed for 38.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Aljanah stood nearest the zenith over Louisville at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.9° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
Louisville sits at 38.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Louisville at all: they sit past the −51.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 49% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 37° down.
How unusual Marsha's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Marsha Norman's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 21, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Marsha Norman was born on September 21, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Marsha Norman's birth date, September 21, 1947, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Marsha’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Marsha Norman's date-only chart is Mars trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Marsha Norman combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Marsha’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Sagittarius 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
stableMarstrineJupiter0.4° to 0.8° orb
Marsha’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.8° to 2.3° orb
Marsha’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareUranus1.3° to 2.3° orb
Marsha’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.6° to 3.0° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.2° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.0° to 6.5° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune6.7° to 7.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Marsha’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 7°46′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 8°22′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 21°38′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 1°18′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 26°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Venus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.2°
Marsha’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 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.
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.2°
Born the same day as Marsha
Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Louisville, at 38.3°N, nothing below −51.7° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Marsha
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Born in United States
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More charts like Marsha’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Sophia LorenItalian actress
- Antoine LavoisierFrench nobleman and chemist
- Keir StarmerPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2024 to 2026
Born in Pig years
- Shimon PeresIsraeli politician, former President and Prime Minister of Israel
- Louis P. LochnerAmerican journalist
- John AdamsAmerican composer (born 1947)
Also born on September 21
- Kwame Nkrumah1909
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- Leonard Cohen1934
- Kevin Rudd1957
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- Liam Gallagher1972
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Anthony R. DolanSpeechwriter to Ronald Reagan
- Barry BearakAmerican journalist
- Conrad AikenAmerican novelist and poet
Other Virgo Pig charts
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- Kolton MillerAmerican football offensive tackle
- Easton StickAmerican football player
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Other Tidal Healers
- Scott MorrisonPrime Minister of Australia from 2018 to 2022
- Marco Rubio72nd United States Secretary of State since 2025
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- ZicoBrazilian association football player and manager
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Felipe de Marichalar y BorbónSpanish noble (born 1998); son of Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo, and Don Jaime de Marichalar
- Kim Da-hyunSouth Korean singer
- Laysla De OliveiraCanadian actress
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Marsha’s cards
Computed from September 21, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Marsha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q545362 (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 Norman-safier_copy.jpg: Alansafe5 derivative work: Kmhkmh, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Marsha Norman at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marsha Norman.
Quick answers about Marsha Norman’s chart
- How old is Marsha Norman?
- Marsha Norman is 79 years old, born September 21, 1947 in Louisville, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Marsha Norman?
- Marsha Norman is a Virgo: born September 21, 1947, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Marsha Norman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 21, 1947 birth.
- What is Marsha Norman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Marsha Norman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Marsha Norman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Marsha Norman's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
