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Martha Graham

Martha Graham (born May 11, 1894, Allegheny, United States; died 1991), was an American dancer and choreographer. Graham's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Women's Hall of Fame and Kennedy Center Honors.

Martha Graham’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Martha Graham’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Martha in the U.S.?

#713

US rank in 2025

~553,732

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

Martha ranked 24th among girls and 921st among boys in 1894, the year of this birth, with 1,968 American girls and 7 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Martha’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

6

Personality · caring, responsible

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

Martha’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid

Ivory · Blush · Botanical green

The record

What sets Martha apart

Martha Graham took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932, at 38.

Santa Barbara High School and Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts shaped the training.

Martha Graham was married Erick Hawkins.

Wikipedia's editors put Martha Graham under Artists from Pittsburgh, Modern dance and Cornish College of the Arts faculty.

Salvador Dalí (1904) and Richard Feynman (1918) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Santa Barbara High School and Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts
Awards
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1976), National Women's Hall of Fame (2015) and Kennedy Center Honors (1979)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
57

What the chart says

Martha, according to the stars

Core essence

Martha is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Martha is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Martha needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Martha needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Martha wants to be loved

Martha wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Martha creates

How Martha makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Martha 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: Martha 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Martha is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Martha slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Martha's birth date. Working below.

Where Martha sits

Six lines

Martha’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Martha

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
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You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
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You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
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You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Martha’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 79.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 20.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Allegheny that night

Computed for 40.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Allegheny at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.9° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.5°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 Allegheny at all: they sit past the −49.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 48% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Allegheny, United States

The death is recorded at New York, United States in 1991.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Martha Graham: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Martha's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

2 unaspected planets

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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Martha Graham in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Martha Graham's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 11, 1894, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Wood Horse

Open road, open heart.

Martha Graham was born on May 11, 1894, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 11

Bright signal, thin skin.

Martha Graham's birth date, May 11, 1894, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Martha’s chart

Martha’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.7° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.3° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.5° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.4° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.6° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 3.1° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.8° orbSun in Taurus · 20°57′☉20°Moon in Leo · 13°40′☽13°Mercury in Taurus · 10°34′☿10°Venus in Aries · 5°25′♀5°Mars in Pisces · 1°12′♂1°Jupiter in Gemini · 8°22′♃8°Saturn in Libra · 19°42′ · retrograde♄℞19°Uranus in Scorpio · 13°00′ · retrograde♅℞12°Neptune in Gemini · 12°24′♆12°Pluto in Gemini · 9°49′♇9°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.3° to 1.6° orb

    Martha’s growth and depths act as one.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.4° to 3.5° orb

    Martha’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter2.5° to 3.4° orb

    Martha’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto2.6° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto3.9° to 4.9° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.9° to 4.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Martha’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 14°37′

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 11°36′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 12°08′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 11°44′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 14°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Neptune 0.3°
  • Ceres square Neptune 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 0.9°
  • Ceres trine Mercury 1.0°
  • Hygiea opposition Mercury 1.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.3°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 1.4°
  • Chiron sextile Uranus 1.6°
  • Eros trine Mercury 1.6°
  • Ceres square Pluto 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.9°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.2°
  • Eros square Pluto 2.3°

Martha’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Martha’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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
  • Sun quincunx Saturn 1.2°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°

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Martha’s cards

Computed from May 11, 1894. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Martha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q487604 (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 Los Angeles Daily News, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Martha Graham at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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Quick answers about Martha Graham’s chart

What zodiac sign was Martha Graham?
Martha Graham was a Taurus: born May 11, 1894, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Martha Graham's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 11, 1894 birth.
What was Martha Graham's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Martha Graham's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Martha Graham's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Martha Graham's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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