Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese (born November 17, 1942, Queens, United States, 00:24), aged 83, is an American filmmaker. Scorsese is best known for The Wager, Killers of the Flower Moon and The Irishman. Scorsese's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Film, Golden Bear and Academy Award for Best Director.
Martin Scorsese’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Martin
Martin Scorsese’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood 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
The SSA recorded 3,045 American boys and 8 girls named Martin in 1942: 85th among boys and 3,626th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Martin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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 · 3 · 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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Martin apart
The record Martin Scorsese is measured by: Goodfellas, Taxi Driver and Gangs of New York.
Study took Martin Scorsese to New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Cardinal Hayes High School.
Martin Scorsese was 20 when the work began in 1962.
Martin Scorsese was born to Catherine Scorsese and Charles Scorsese, married Isabella Rossellini and Helen Schermerhorn Morris and raised 3 children.
Wikipedia files Martin Scorsese under American documentary film directors, Best Adapted Screenplay BAFTA Award winners and BAFTA fellows.
Cyril Ramaphosa (1952) and Eugene Paul Wigner (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Goodfellas, Taxi Driver and Gangs of New York
- Educated at
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Cardinal Hayes High School
- Awards
- Praemium Imperiale (2016), Honorary Golden Bear (2024) and AFI Life Achievement Award (1997)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Director
- Working from
- 1962
- Citizenship
- United States and Italy
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 114
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 porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Martin needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Martin builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Martin is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Martin runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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.
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Read from the sky above Queens at 00:24, Martin Scorsese’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Queens that night
Computed for 40.71°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Queens at the birth hour: Algol of Perseus, within 1.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Queens sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Queens on any night.
The Moon, 70% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 68° below the horizon.
What Martin's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Lunar Star 太陰 in 亥
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 6/2
Sacral authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Earth planets
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.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Martin Scorsese's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What Scorpio means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Martin Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Martin Scorsese's birth date, November 17, 1942, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Martin’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Martin Scorsese's timed chart: Sun in the 4th house, Mercury in the 4th house, Venus in the 4th house, Mars in the 4th house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Martin Scorsese's timed chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Martin Scorsese combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Martin’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 0.2° orb
Martin’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenustrineJupiterapplying · 0.8° orb
Martin’s affections flow straight into their growth.
SuntrineJupiterapplying · 1.0° orb
Martin’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 1.5° orb
MoontrineMercuryseparating · 1.7° orb
SaturnsextilePlutoapplying · 3.0° orb
MarssquarePlutoseparating · 3.1° orb
UranussextilePlutoseparating · 4.3° orb
MercuryconjunctionMarsseparating · 5.9° orb
SuntrineMoonapplying · 6.3° orb
MoontrineVenusapplying · 6.5° orb
SaturnconjunctionUranusapplying · 7.3° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 8.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Martin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironLeo 28°44′ · House 1
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 19°55′ · House 8
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 18°49′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 13°12′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 8°59′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.3°
- Ceres conjunction Moon 2.0°
- Chiron conjunction Ascendant 2.1°
- Eros square Mercury 2.6°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.9°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 3.0°
Martin’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Pluto; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Martin’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.0°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.2°
Martin’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Sun in Scorpio, house 4 | Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Virgo | Mercury in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Libra | Venus in Scorpio, house 4 | Neptune | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 1 | Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Cancer, house 12 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Capricorn | Saturn in Gemini, house 11 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 11 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 3 | Moon | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aries | Mars in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Taurus | Venus in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Gemini | Mercury in Scorpio, house 4 | Saturn, Uranus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 8 | Jupiter | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Also born on November 17
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- Lyndon B. JohnsonPresident of the United States from 1963 to 1969
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Martin’s cards
Computed from November 17, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Martin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q41148 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Martin Scorsese.
Quick answers about Martin Scorsese’s chart
- How old is Martin Scorsese?
- Martin Scorsese is 83 years old, born November 17, 1942 in Queens, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Martin Scorsese?
- Martin Scorsese is a Scorpio: born November 17, 1942, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
- What is Martin Scorsese's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 17, 1942 birth.
- What time was Martin Scorsese born?
- 00:24 local time in Queens, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Martin Scorsese's rising sign?
- Leo rising, calculated from the documented 00:24 birth time in Queens, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- How tall is Martin Scorsese?
- Martin Scorsese is 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Martin Scorsese's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Martin Scorsese's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 28°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Martin Scorsese's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 8°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Martin Scorsese's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
