Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart (born Martha Helena Kostyra; August 3, 1941, Jersey City, United States, 13:33), aged 85, is an American businesswoman, writer, TV personality. Stewart is best known for Martha Stewart Living. Stewart's honours include Daytime Emmy Award and New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Martha Stewart’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
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Martha Stewart’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water 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 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Martha, according to the stars
Core essence
Martha is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Martha is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Martha 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 Martha 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 Martha wants to be loved
Martha wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Martha and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Martha gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Martha's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Martha Stewart's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Martha Stewart was born on August 3, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Martha Stewart's birth date, August 3, 1941, 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
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Martha Stewart's timed chart: Sun in the 10th house, Saturn in the 7th house, Uranus in the 7th house and Pluto in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Martha Stewart's timed chart is Moon square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Martha Stewart combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Martha’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoonsquareNeptuneapplying · 0.4° orb
Martha’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MercurysextileNeptuneapplying · 0.4° orb
Martha’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
MarssextileJupiterseparating · 1.5° orb
Martha’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SaturntrineNeptuneseparating · 1.5° orb
Martha’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercurysextileSaturnapplying · 1.9° orb
Martha’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
SaturnconjunctionUranusapplying · 2.6° orb
Martha’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
SunsextileJupiterapplying · 3.8° orb
Martha’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 4.1° orb
Martha’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
UranussextilePlutoseparating · 4.2° orb
Martha’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MercurysextileUranusapplying · 4.5° orb
Martha’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SuntrineMarsapplying · 5.3° orb
Martha’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
VenussquareJupiterapplying · 5.7° orb
Martha’s affections grind against their growth.
SunconjunctionPlutoseparating · 6.8° orb
Martha’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 5°33′ · House 10
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 Martha performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 24°54′ · House 2
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Martha is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLeo 3°09′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Martha loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 1°34′ · House 8
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 Martha needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 16°35′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Martha is read as immovable on those points.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Ceres conjunction Moon 0.5°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 1.0°
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.5°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Martha is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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.
Yod onto Moon · Mercury, Saturn, MoonTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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 quincunx Mercury 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Moon 0.5°
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.9°
- Venus biquintile Mars 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
- Moon quincunx Saturn 1.9°
Martha’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 10 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Gemini, house 8 | Moon | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Capricorn | Saturn in Taurus, house 7 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aquarius | Uranus in Taurus, house 7 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 11 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aries | Mars in Aries, house 6 | Mars | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 11 | Saturn, Uranus | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Gemini | Mercury in Cancer, house 9 | Jupiter | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Cancer | Moon in Sagittarius, house 2 | Mercury | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 10 | Sun, Pluto | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Virgo | Mercury in Cancer, house 9 | Venus, Neptune | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 11 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Martha’s cards
Every card is computed from August 3, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Martha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234606, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
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Quick answers about Martha Stewart’s chart
- How old is Martha Stewart?
- Martha Stewart is 85 years old, born August 3, 1941 in Jersey City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Martha Stewart?
- Martha Stewart is a Leo: born August 3, 1941, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake.
- What is Martha Stewart's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 3, 1941 birth.
- What time was Martha Stewart born?
- 13:33 local time in Jersey City, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Martha Stewart's rising sign?
- Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 13:33 birth time in Jersey City, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Martha Stewart's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 3, 1941 birth date.
- What is Martha Stewart's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 5°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 3, 1941 birth time.
- Where is Martha Stewart's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 16°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Martha Stewart's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
