Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam (born November 4, 1919, The Bronx, United States; died 1996), was an American actor. Balsam's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Martin Balsam’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Martin
Martin Balsam’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 Martin in the U.S.?
#335
US rank in 2025
~317,037
Americans share it since 1880
1963
its peak year
Martin ranked 81st among boys and 2,343rd among girls in 1919, the year of this birth, with 2,204 American boys and 15 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Martin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Martin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
The record
What sets Martin apart
Matthew McConaughey (1969) and Tony Abbott (1957) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Martin, according to the stars
Core essence
Martin does not do surface. The core of Martin 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 Martin is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Martin wants to be loved
Martin 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 Martin and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Martin creates
How Martin makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Martin 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: Martin is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Martin 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Martin channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Martin's birth date. Working below.
Where Martin sits
Six lines
Martin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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.
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 Martin Balsam
Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx 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 The Bronx that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at The Bronx was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 77.7° up.
Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from The Bronx on any night.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon up and 88% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Martin's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Martin Balsam at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Martin Balsam's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 4, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Goat
Earth GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Martin Balsam was born on November 4, 1919, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Martin Balsam's birth date, November 4, 1919, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Martin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Martin Balsam's date-only chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Martin Balsam 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.
Martin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Pisces or Aries 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
stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Martin’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 6.8° orb
Martin’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.2° to 2.1° orb
Martin’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.8° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.1° to 5.4° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.0° to 5.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.4° to 5.9° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 4.1° to 17.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Martin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 3°11′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 21°13′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 29°44′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 24°42′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 1°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.8°
Martin’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Martin’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 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.4°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.7°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°
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More charts like Martin’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Famke JanssenDutch actress
- Chad KroegerCanadian rock musician
- Carly Rae JepsenCanadian singer (born 1985)
Born in Goat years
- Barion BrownAmerican football player
- Morgan MosesAmerican football player
- Chris BoswellAmerican football player (born 1991)
Also born on November 4
- Matthew McConaughey1969
- Tony Abbott1957
- Achraf Hakimi1998
- Tilda Swinton1960
- Sean Combs1969
- Ralph Macchio1961
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Robert DuvallAmerican actor and director
- Harvey KeitelAmerican actor
- Ian HolmBritish actor
Other Scorpio Goat charts
- Michael ParksPulitzer Prize winning journalist and educator
- Ange-Yoan BonnyIvorian association football player
- Zeno DebastBelgian association football player (born 2003)
- Petar SučićCroatian footballer (born 2003)
Other Gilded Scholars
- Hilary DuffAmerican actress and singer
- Tulsi GabbardAmerican politician (born 1981)
- Adam SchiffAmerican politician
- Maude ApatowAmerican actress (born 1997)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Stefan Helldirector at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany
- Roger Martin du GardFrench writer
- Isidor Isaac RabiAmerican physicist
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Martin’s cards
Computed from November 4, 1919. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Martin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312107 (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.
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The same Martin Balsam 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 Martin Balsam.
Quick answers about Martin Balsam’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Martin Balsam?
- Martin Balsam was a Scorpio: born November 4, 1919, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Martin Balsam's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 4, 1919 birth.
- What was Martin Balsam's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Martin Balsam's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Martin Balsam's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Martin Balsam's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
