Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.; April 2, 1939, Washington, D.C., United States, 12:00; died 1984), was an American R&B and soul singer. Best-known releases include What's Going On, Let's Get It On and Here, My Dear. Gaye's honours include Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Marvin Gaye’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Marvin
Marvin Gaye’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Marvin in the U.S.?
#699
US rank in 2025
~255,807
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1939, Marvin came 52nd among boys and 1,710th among girls, carried by 3,758 American boys and 21 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Marvin’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Marvin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, 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 Marvin apart
Alberto Fernández (1959) and Michael Fassbender (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Marvin, according to the stars
Core essence
Marvin 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 Marvin 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Marvin is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Marvin needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Marvin wants to be loved
Marvin wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Marvin, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Marvin creates
How Marvin makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Marvin creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Marvin is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Marvin is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Marvin leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Marvin does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Marvin's birth date. Working below.
Where Marvin sits
Six lines
Marvin’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Marvin Gaye
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Washington at 12:00, Marvin Gaye’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Washington was Mirach, in Andromeda, 82.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −51.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -56° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.
- Known as
- Marvin Gaye
- Born in
- Washington, D.C., United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 1984.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Marvin's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Peacemaker 天同 in 酉
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
52 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · 1 unaspected planet · No Air 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Marvin Gaye's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time.
What Aries means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Marvin Gaye was born on April 2, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Marvin Gaye's birth date, April 2, 1939, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Marvin’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Marvin Gaye's timed chart: Sun in the 10th house, Mercury in the 10th house, Mars in the 7th house, Saturn in the 10th house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Marvin Gaye's timed chart is Jupiter opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Marvin Gaye combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Marvin’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
JupiteroppositionNeptuneseparating · 0.1° orb
Marvin’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MoonoppositionJupiterseparating · 0.7° orb
Marvin’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
MoonconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 0.8° orb
Marvin’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 1.1° orb
VenussextileMarsapplying · 4.0° orb
SunsquareMarsseparating · 5.3° orb
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 5.6° orb
MoontrineUranusseparating · 6.4° orb
MercurysquareMarsapplying · 6.4° orb
MercuryconjunctionSaturnseparating · 6.7° orb
SunconjunctionSaturnapplying · 7.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Marvin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironCancer 4°30′ · House 1
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 4°04′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 22°39′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 8°56′ · House 7
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 11°26′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Moon 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.6°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.1°
- Eros opposition Neptune 1.2°
- Ceres square Venus 1.3°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Eros trine Ascendant 1.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.1°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.3°
Marvin’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Marvin’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
- Venus quintile Uranus 1.0°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.4°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
- Moon quincunx Saturn 2.4°
Marvin’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 3 | Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Aries, house 10 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Aries, house 10 | Moon, Neptune | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 9 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 1 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Pisces, house 9 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aries, house 10 | Mars | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Taurus, house 11 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 3 | Venus, Jupiter | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 7 | Sun, Mercury, Saturn | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 9 | Uranus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Aries, house 10 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Marvin’s cards
Computed from April 2, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Marvin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189758 (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 Photograph by Jim Britt, whose other (copyrighted) photos of Gaye from the same session—many of them in full color—can be seen at his website. Originally distributed by Motown Records., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Marvin Gaye at Wikipedia, marvingaye.net, IMDb, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marvin Gaye.
Quick answers about Marvin Gaye’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Marvin Gaye?
- Marvin Gaye was an Aries: born April 2, 1939, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time.
- What was Marvin Gaye's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 2, 1939 birth.
- What time was Marvin Gaye born?
- 12:00 local time in Washington, D.C., United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What was Marvin Gaye's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 12:00 birth time in Washington, D.C., United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What was Marvin Gaye's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Marvin Gaye's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 4°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Marvin Gaye's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 11°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Marvin Gaye's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
