Martha Plimpton
Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970, New York City, United States), aged 55, is an American actress. Plimpton's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
Martha Plimpton’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dog, with 
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Martha Plimpton’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Martha’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Martha apart
José Saramago (1922) and Chinua Achebe (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Martha, according to the stars
Core essence
Martha does not do surface. The core of Martha is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Martha is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Martha wants to be loved
Martha wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Martha even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Martha creates
How Martha makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Martha creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Martha is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Martha is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Martha fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Martha's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Martha sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Martha Plimpton's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 16, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Martha Plimpton was born on November 16, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Martha Plimpton's birth date, November 16, 1970, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Martha’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Martha Plimpton's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Martha Plimpton combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Martha’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Martha Plimpton, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn0.5° to 0.8° orb
Martha’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
Martha’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.9° to 4.6° orb
Martha’s affections and growth act as one.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.5° to 6.0° orb
Martha’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableSunoppositionSaturn4.6° to 5.7° orb
Martha’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn4.7° to 5.1° orb
Martha’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.2° to 5.8° orb
Martha’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 6.2° orb
Martha’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.9° orb
Martha’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.7° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 1.0° to 14.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Martha’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 ℞Aries 6°18′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Martha may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 25°52′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Martha looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosCapricorn 29°28′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Martha is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLeo 15°51′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Martha at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Martha exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Eros trine Pluto 0.3°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.7°
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.0°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.7°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.9°
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°).
Martha’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. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Martha is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Martha’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.
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.4°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Martha Plimpton, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Martha’s family here
One relative of Martha Plimpton also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Martha’s cards
Every card is computed from November 16, 1970, 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 Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Martha Plimpton, 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
Martha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q267383, 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 PEN American Center, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Martha Plimpton at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Martha Plimpton.
Quick answers about Martha Plimpton’s chart
- How old is Martha Plimpton?
- Martha Plimpton is 55 years old, born November 16, 1970 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Martha Plimpton?
- Martha Plimpton is a Scorpio: born November 16, 1970, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog.
- What is Martha Plimpton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 16, 1970 birth.
- What time was Martha Plimpton 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 Martha Plimpton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the November 16, 1970 birth date.
- What is Martha Plimpton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 16, 1970 birth date.
- Where is Martha Plimpton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Martha Plimpton's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
