Martin Short
Martin Short (born March 26, 1950, Ontario, Canada), aged 76, is a Canadian comedian and actor. Notable films include How I Met Your Mother, Mars Attacks! and Inherent Vice. Short's honours include Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series and Member of the Order of Canada.
Martin Short’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Tiger, with 
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Martin Short’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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~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
8 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Silver
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 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 as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Martin be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Martin fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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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Martin Short at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Martin Short's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 26, 1950, 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.
Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Martin Short was born on March 26, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Martin Short's birth date, March 26, 1950, 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 Short's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Martin Short combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Martin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Martin Short, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 5.2° orb
Martin’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableMarssquareUranus0.2° to 0.6° orb
Martin’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
Martin’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 1.9° orb
Martin’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareUranus2.0° to 4.0° orb
Martin’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionMars2.2° to 4.6° orb
Martin’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.5° to 4.4° orb
Martin’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.8° to 4.6° orb
Martin’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsquareUranus3.9° to 4.9° orb
Martin’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunoppositionMars4.1° to 5.5° orb
Martin’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
stableJupitertrineUranus4.9° to 5.1° orb
Martin’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.6° to 6.2° orb
Martin’s affections and growth act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 21°42′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Martin building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 18°40′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Martin is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosTaurus 9°23′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Martin wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 20°50′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Martin is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 8°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Martin is read as immovable on those points.
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 Venus 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.4°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.7°
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. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Mars, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Mars, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.4°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.5°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Martin Short, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Martin’s cards
Every card is computed from March 26, 1950, 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
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Martin Short, 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 Q329744, 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 Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Martin Short 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Martin Short.
Quick answers about Martin Short’s chart
- How old is Martin Short?
- Martin Short is 76 years old, born March 26, 1950 in Ontario, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Martin Short?
- Martin Short is an Aries: born March 26, 1950, 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 Metal Tiger.
- What is Martin Short's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 26, 1950 birth.
- What time was Martin Short 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 Short's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the March 26, 1950 birth date.
- What is Martin Short's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 26, 1950 birth date.
- Where is Martin Short's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Martin Short's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
