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Portrait of Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944, Manhattan, United States; died 2012), was an American composer and conductor. Hamlisch's honours include Academy Award for Best Original Song, Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Original Score.

Marvin Hamlisch’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Marvin Hamlisch’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Storyteller

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Marvin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

8 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

East

Season

spring

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern

Rose pink · Lilac · Forest

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

What the chart says

Marvin, according to the stars

Core essence

Marvin is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Marvin needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Marvin cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Marvin needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Marvin wants to be loved

Marvin wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Marvin like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Marvin creates

How Marvin makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Marvin creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Marvin is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Marvin 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Marvin 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 Marvin's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Marvin sits

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Marvin’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Marvin

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Marvin

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

PrivateExpressive
Marvin

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Marvin

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Marvin

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Marvin

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Marvin Hamlisch in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Marvin Hamlisch's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 2, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

Wood Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Marvin Hamlisch was born on June 2, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Marvin Hamlisch's birth date, June 2, 1944, 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 Marvin’s chart

Marvin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Marvin Hamlisch, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.4° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.1° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.8° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.7° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.8° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.8° orbSun in Gemini · 11°58′11°Moon in Libra · 22°28′22°Mercury in Taurus · 17°52′17°Venus in Gemini · 5°17′Mars in Leo · 6°25′Jupiter in Leo · 20°41′20°Saturn in Gemini · 27°43′27°Uranus in Gemini · 9°07′Neptune in Libra · 1°29′ · retrogradePluto in Leo · 6°50′

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.

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Conjunction
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.1° to 0.7° orb

    Marvin’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussextileMars0.8° to 1.5° orb

    Marvin’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableVenussextilePluto0.9° to 2.2° orb

    Marvin’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter2.3° to 3.3° orb

    Marvin’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.3° orb

    Marvin’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus2.4° to 3.3° orb

    Marvin’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableMarssextileUranus2.4° to 3.0° orb

    Marvin’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.2° to 4.4° orb

    Marvin’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune3.2° to 4.4° orb

    Marvin’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb

    Marvin’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.5° to 6.8° orb

    Marvin’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air6 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

Marvin’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.

  • ChironVirgo 9°59′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Marvin turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.

  • CeresCancer 24°41′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Marvin is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.

  • ErosPisces 28°49′ (moves 0.51° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Marvin is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaLibra 29°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Marvin is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.

  • Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Marvin exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.2°
  • Chiron square Uranus 0.9°
  • Eros square Saturn 1.1°
  • Chiron square Sun 2.0°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 2.1°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 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°).

Marvin’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. 1. Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. Venus7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Neptune; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. Sun5 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Marvin is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Marvin’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Venus, Saturn, UranusThree 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.4°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Marvin Hamlisch, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Marvin’s cards

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The Radiant Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

yang Wood

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yin Earth

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Fire

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Marvin Hamlisch, 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

Marvin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q337206, 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 Shel Secunda, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Marvin Hamlisch 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 Marvin Hamlisch.

Quick answers about Marvin Hamlisch’s chart

What zodiac sign was Marvin Hamlisch?
Marvin Hamlisch was a Gemini: born June 2, 1944, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey.
What was Marvin Hamlisch's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 2, 1944 birth.
What time was Marvin Hamlisch 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 was Marvin Hamlisch's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the June 2, 1944 birth date.
What was Marvin Hamlisch's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 2, 1944 birth date.
Where was Marvin Hamlisch's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Marvin Hamlisch's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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