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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Goat, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Martin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Martin 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 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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. 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.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Martin Balsam, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Pisces or Aries 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.
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
Martin’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrinePluto3.1° to 4.1° orb
Martin’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileMars3.8° to 4.3° orb
Martin’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercurysquareUranus4.1° to 5.4° orb
Martin’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareJupiter5.0° to 5.9° orb
Martin’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
Martin’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.4° to 5.9° orb
Martin’s drive and discipline act as one.
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
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 3°11′ (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: Martin may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 21°13′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Martin is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosCapricorn 29°44′ (moves 0.44° 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. Martin is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 24°42′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
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 Martin needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 1°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Martin leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.8°
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°).
Martin’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Martin 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 Martin’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Martin Balsam, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Martin’s cards
Every card is computed from November 4, 1919, 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
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
No birth time is on public record for Martin Balsam, 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
Martin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312107, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Martin Balsam 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Goat.
- 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 time was Martin Balsam 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 was Martin Balsam's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the November 4, 1919 birth date.
- What was Martin Balsam's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 4, 1919 birth date.
- 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.
