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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Martin
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.
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
Martin ranked 85th among boys and 3,357th among girls in 1950, the year of this birth, with 4,180 American boys and 11 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Martin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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
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 record
What sets Martin apart
Martin Short took the Theatre World Award in 1993, at 43.
Training came by way of Westdale Secondary School and McMaster University.
The working life starts in 1972, at 22.
The family line: born to Olive Grace Hayter and Charles Patrick Short and married Nancy Dolman.
Richard Dawkins (1941) and Larry Page (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Westdale Secondary School and McMaster University
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Canada's Walk of Fame (2000), Theatre World Award (1993) and Earle Grey Award (1995)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Television Series Musical or Comedy
- Working from
- 1972
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
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. 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 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.
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 Short
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ontario 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 Ontario that night
Computed for 50.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Ontario at 9 p.m. that evening: Talitha of Ursa Major, within 3.7° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 108 catalog stars above the horizon.
Ontario sits at 50.0°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −40.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 53% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 18° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Ontario, Canada
- Lives in
- Pacific Palisades
Wikidata records Pacific Palisades as Martin Short's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Martin Short: 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
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Uranus · 1 unaspected planet · 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 →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Gemini or Cancer 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
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
stableMercurysquareUranus2.0° to 4.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionMars2.2° to 4.6° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.8° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsquareUranus3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableSunoppositionMars4.1° to 5.5° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.9° to 5.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.6° to 6.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 21°42′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 18°40′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 9°23′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 20°50′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 8°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Martin’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Martin’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Also born on March 26
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- Larry Page1973
- Diana Ross1944
- Jonathan Groff1985
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Other Gilded Strategists
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Martin’s cards
Computed from March 26, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Martin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q329744 (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.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Martin Short's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Martin Short's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
