Martin Lawrence
Martin Lawrence (born April 16, 1965, Frankfurt, Germany), aged 61, is an American actor and comedian (born 1965).
Martin Lawrence’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Snake, with 
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Martin Lawrence’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Martin apart
Selena (1971) and Akon (1973) 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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Martin is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Martin wants to be loved
Martin wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Martin is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Frankfurt on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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.
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Martin Lawrence's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 16, 1965, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Wood Snake
Wood SnakeSays less than it knows.
Martin Lawrence was born on April 16, 1965, which falls in a Wood 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 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Martin Lawrence's birth date, April 16, 1965, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Martin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Martin Lawrence's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Martin Lawrence combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Martin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Martin Lawrence, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Libra or Scorpio 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.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto0.8° to 0.9° orb
Martin’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.0° to 1.2° orb
Martin’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus2.0° to 2.1° orb
Martin’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus2.3° to 2.4° orb
Martin’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.9° orb
Martin’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.3° to 4.5° orb
Martin’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
Martin’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
Martin’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 2.2° to 15.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 20°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Martin absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresPisces 10°39′ (moves 0.35° 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.
♡ ErosAquarius 21°21′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Martin is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCancer 10°45′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Martin is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 20°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Martin is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.5°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.7°
- Ceres opposition Mars 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.0°
- Eros square Neptune 2.1°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.4°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Saturn 2.6°
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. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Martin is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.5°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 2.0°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Martin Lawrence, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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More charts like Martin’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Hayley KiyokoAmerican actress
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Born in Snake years
- Zak ZinterAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Drake LondonAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Bijan RobinsonAmerican football player (born 2002)
Also born on April 16
- Selena1971
- Akon1973
- Anya Taylor-Joy1996
- Sadie Sink2002
- Luol Deng1985
- Alek Wek1977
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- James DonaldBritish actor
- Stephen BoydNorthern Irish actor
- Clark GableAmerican actor
Other Aries Snake charts
- André PrevinGerman-American conductor, pianist, and composer
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- Manuel UgarteUruguayan association football player
- Santiago GiménezMexican footballer (born 2001)
Other Gilded Pioneers
- Emmanuel AdebayorTogolese soccer player
- Sienna MillerBritish-American actress
- Conan O'BrienAmerican television show host and comedian
- Thom YorkeEnglish musician and singer for Radiohead
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Dennis QuaidAmerican actor
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Martin’s cards
Every card is computed from April 16, 1965, 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
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Martin Lawrence, 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 Q183542, 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 Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Martin Lawrence at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
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 Lawrence.
Quick answers about Martin Lawrence’s chart
- How old is Martin Lawrence?
- Martin Lawrence is 61 years old, born April 16, 1965 in Frankfurt, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Martin Lawrence?
- Martin Lawrence is an Aries: born April 16, 1965, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake.
- What is Martin Lawrence's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 16, 1965 birth.
- What time was Martin Lawrence 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 Martin Lawrence's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 16, 1965 birth date.
- What is Martin Lawrence's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 16, 1965 birth date.
- Where is Martin Lawrence's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Martin Lawrence's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
