Martin Flavin
Martin Flavin (born November 2, 1883, San Francisco, United States; died 1967), was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter. Flavin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.
Martin Flavin’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Martin
Martin Flavin’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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
Of the names registered in 1883, Martin came 46th, carried by 377 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Martin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
2
Soul Urge · closeness
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
The record
What sets Martin apart
Martin Flavin took the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1944, at 61.
University of Chicago shaped the training.
The family line: married Sarah Keese Arnold.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Martin Flavin: Writers from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Dramatists and playwrights from California and Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winners.
Shah Rukh Khan (1965) and David Schwimmer (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Chicago
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1944)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Martin 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 Martin 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 Martin wants to be loved
Martin 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 Martin even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Martin is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Martin fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Flavin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco 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 San Francisco that night
Computed for 37.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over San Francisco at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.7° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 95 catalog stars were up in all.
From 37.8°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 San Francisco at all: they sit past the −52.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 9% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- San Francisco, United States
The death is recorded at Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey County in 1967.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Martin Flavin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Martin's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Martin Flavin's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 2, 1883, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Goat
Water GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Martin Flavin was born on November 2, 1883, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Martin Flavin's birth date, November 2, 1883, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Martin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Martin Flavin's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Martin Flavin combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Martin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Sagittarius 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
stableMarssextileSaturn0.3° to 0.8° orb
Martin’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunsquareMars0.6° to 1.2° orb
Martin’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.6° to 1.8° orb
Martin’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersextilePluto3.4° orb
stableUranustrinePluto4.1° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter5.0° to 5.4° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.6° to 6.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.5° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.8° to 12.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 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 ℞Gemini 2°06′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 21°17′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 7°49′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 19°49′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 6°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mars 1.4°
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.9°
- Eros conjunction Sun 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.8°
Martin’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.4°
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Born in Goat years
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- Lynn RedgraveBritish actress
Also born on November 2
- Shah Rukh Khan1965
- David Schwimmer1966
- Larry Fink1952
- Jon M. Chu1979
- Danny Amendola1985
- Karamo Brown1980
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- David JuliusAmerican physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021
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Other Gilded Guardians
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Martin’s cards
Computed from November 2, 1883. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Martin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q503483 (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 Flavin 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 Flavin.
Quick answers about Martin Flavin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Martin Flavin?
- Martin Flavin was a Scorpio: born November 2, 1883, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Martin Flavin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 2, 1883 birth.
- What was Martin Flavin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Martin Flavin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Martin Flavin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Martin Flavin's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
