Marshall Brickman
Marshall Brickman (born August 25, 1939, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; died 2024), was an American screenwriter. Brickman's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and The President's Memorial Award.
Marshall Brickman’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Marshall
Marshall Brickman’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Marshall in the U.S.?
#340
US rank in 2025
~98,604
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Marshall ranked 182nd among boys and 2,373rd among girls in 1939, the year of this birth, with 782 American boys and 13 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Marshall’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Marshall’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, 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 Marshall apart
Marshall Brickman took the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1974, at 35.
Training came by way of University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wikipedia's editors put Marshall Brickman under People from Rio de Janeiro (city), American country banjoists and Best Screenplay BAFTA Award winners.
Tim Burton (1958) and Claudia Schiffer (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Instruments
- banjo
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay (1978), The President's Memorial Award (1987) and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1974)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- Citizenship
- United States and Brazil
- Languages
- English and Portuguese
- Wikipedia editions
- 21
What the chart says
Marshall, according to the stars
Core essence
Marshall 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 Marshall is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Marshall is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Marshall needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Marshall wants to be loved
Marshall wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Marshall openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Marshall creates
How Marshall makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Marshall builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Marshall is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Marshall is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Marshall leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Marshall 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 Marshall's birth date. Working below.
Where Marshall sits
Six lines
Marshall’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 Marshall Brickman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rio de Janeiro 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 Rio de Janeiro that night
Computed for 22.91°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Rio de Janeiro at 9 p.m. that evening: Nunki of Sagittarius, within 7.4° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Rigil Kentaurus in Centaurus, and 66 catalog stars were up in all.
From 22.9°S not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 87% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2024.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Marshall Brickman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Marshall's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · Only two elements
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Marshall Brickman's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Marshall Brickman was born on August 25, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Marshall Brickman's birth date, August 25, 1939, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Marshall’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Marshall Brickman's date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Marshall Brickman combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Marshall’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Marshall’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.3° orb
Marshall’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.8° orb
Marshall’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineNeptune1.7° orb
stableMarstrineUranus2.0° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn2.1° to 3.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.7° to 6.4° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto8.0° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.7° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.5° to 13.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air or Water signs.
Marshall’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 16°57′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 5°06′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 10°39′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 1°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 27°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.0°
- Hygiea trine Sun 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.8°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.5°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.7°
Marshall’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Marshall’s chart
Grand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.7°
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on August 25
- Tim Burton1958
- Claudia Schiffer1970
- Blake Lively1987
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
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- Samira WileyAmerican actor and model
- Cole PalmerEnglish footballer (born 2002)
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Other Evergreen Storytellers
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Famous people with Life Path 1
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Marshall’s cards
Computed from August 25, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Marshall’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q459814 (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.
The same Marshall Brickman at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marshall Brickman.
Quick answers about Marshall Brickman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Marshall Brickman?
- Marshall Brickman was a Virgo: born August 25, 1939, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Marshall Brickman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1939 birth.
- What was Marshall Brickman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Marshall Brickman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Marshall Brickman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Marshall Brickman's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
