How old is Martin Sheen?

Martin Sheen is 86 years old, born August 3, 1940 in Dayton, United States.

What zodiac sign is Martin Sheen?

Martin Sheen is a Leo: born August 3, 1940, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.

What is Martin Sheen's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 3, 1940 birth.

What time was Martin Sheen born?

20:03 local time in Dayton, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).

What is Martin Sheen's rising sign?

Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 20:03 birth time in Dayton, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).

What is Martin Sheen's Life Path number?

Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 3, 1940 birth date.

What is Martin Sheen's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Cancer at 24°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 3, 1940 birth time.

Where is Martin Sheen's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 5°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What is Martin Sheen's dominant planet?

Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; rules the Moon sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940, Dayton, United States, 20:03), aged 86, is an American actor (born 1940). Sheen's honours include Order of Danica Hrvatska, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama.

Martin Sheen’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Martin Sheen’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Martin in the U.S.?

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US rank in 2025

~317,037

Americans share it since 1880

1963

its peak year

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Martin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 6

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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What sets Martin apart

Tom Brady (1977) and Martha Stewart (1941) 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 is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Martin is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Martin needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Martin needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Martin wants to be loved

Martin wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Martin gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Martin creates

How Martin makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Martin creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Martin is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Martin is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Martin sits

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Intimate circleWide network

Martin

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous

Martin

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive

Martin

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Martin

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary

Martin

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Martin

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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Martin’s birth-sky starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 76.7° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alphecca →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 22° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

Read from the sky above Dayton at 20:03, the birth time on Martin Sheen’s AA-rated record. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Martin Sheen in 15 seconds

Leo Sun

Pride is the engine.

Martin Sheen's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Metal Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

Martin Sheen was born on August 3, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 7

Asks the better question.

Martin Sheen's birth date, August 3, 1940, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in Martin’s chart

Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Martin Sheen's timed chart: Mercury in the 7th house and Venus in the 7th house.
The tightest major aspect in Martin Sheen's timed chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
Four planets, Sun, Moon, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
Martin Sheen combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.

Martin’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCapricorn

The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

JupiterconjunctionSaturnapplying · 0.2° orb
Martin’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoonsquareJupiterapplying · 0.4° orb
Martin’s feelings grind against their growth.
MoonsquareSaturnapplying · 0.6° orb
Martin’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MercurysextileUranusapplying · 0.9° orb
Martin’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercurysextileNeptuneseparating · 1.2° orb
Martin’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 2.1° orb
Martin’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunconjunctionMoonseparating · 2.2° orb
Martin’s core identity and feelings act as one.
SunsquareJupiterapplying · 2.6° orb
Martin’s core identity grinds against their growth.
SunsquareSaturnapplying · 2.9° orb
Martin’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarssquareSaturnseparating · 5.7° orb
Martin’s drive grinds against their discipline.
MarssquareUranusapplying · 5.8° orb
Martin’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MarssquareJupiterseparating · 6.0° orb
Martin’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MoonconjunctionMarsapplying · 6.4° orb
Martin’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MercuryconjunctionPlutoapplying · 7.8° orb
Martin’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

Chart signature

Elements

Fire4 of 10
Earth4 of 10
Air0 of 10
Water2 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal2 of 10
Fixed7 of 10
Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, 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.

⚷ ChironCancer 24°45′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Martin is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresLibra 3°22′ · House 10
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Martin is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosSagittarius 15°13′ · House 12
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Martin attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 5°07′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Martin feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°57′ · House 4
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Martin carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

Chiron conjunction Mercury 0.1°
Ceres sextile Pluto 0.6°
Chiron sextile Uranus 1.1°
Chiron sextile Neptune 1.1°
Eros trine Moon 1.6°
Ceres square Venus 2.0°
Hygiea trine Pluto 2.4°

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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

1. ☉ Sun14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; rules the Moon sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

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.

Stellium in Leo · Sun, Moon, Mars, PlutoThree 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.

Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.2°
Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
Mercury quintile Saturn 1.4°

Martin’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Capricorn	Saturn in Taurus, house 5	empty	self, body, how you arrive
2	Aquarius	Uranus in Taurus, house 5	empty	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Pisces	Neptune in Virgo, house 9	empty	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Aries	Mars in Leo, house 8	empty	home, family, roots
5	Taurus	Venus in Cancer, house 7	Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus	creativity, romance, play
6	Gemini	Mercury in Cancer, house 7	empty	work, habits, health
7	Cancer	Moon in Leo, house 8	Mercury, Venus	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Leo	Sun in Leo, house 8	Sun, Moon, Mars, Pluto	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Virgo	Mercury in Cancer, house 7	Neptune	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Libra	Venus in Cancer, house 7	empty	career, reputation, public life
11	Scorpio	Pluto in Leo, house 8	empty	friends, community, the future
12	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Taurus, house 5	empty	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

Martin’s family here

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Martin’s cards

Every card is computed from August 3, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Martin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q184572, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Brian McGuirk from Providence, RI, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Martin Sheen at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.

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Quick answers about Martin Sheen’s chart

How old is Martin Sheen?: Martin Sheen is 86 years old, born August 3, 1940 in Dayton, United States.
What zodiac sign is Martin Sheen?: Martin Sheen is a Leo: born August 3, 1940, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
What is Martin Sheen's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 3, 1940 birth.
What time was Martin Sheen born?: 20:03 local time in Dayton, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Martin Sheen's rising sign?: Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 20:03 birth time in Dayton, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Martin Sheen's Life Path number?: Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 3, 1940 birth date.
What is Martin Sheen's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Cancer at 24°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 3, 1940 birth time.
Where is Martin Sheen's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 5°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Martin Sheen's dominant planet?: Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; rules the Moon sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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What stands out in Martin’s chart

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Martin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

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Martin’s dominant planets

Configurations in Martin’s chart

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