Mary Martin
Mary Martin (born December 1, 1913, Weatherford, United States; died 1990), was an American actress. Martin's honours include Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Kennedy Center Honors and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Mary Martin’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Mary
Mary Martin’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Mary in the U.S.?
#125
US rank in 2025
~4,156,654
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 36,642 American girls and 126 boys named Mary in 1913: 1st among girls and 375th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mary’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1913, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Mary apart
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie came in 1956, when Mary Martin was 43.
Mary Martin was taught at Royal College of Art.
Mary Martin was 25 when the work began in 1938.
The record gives colorectal cancer as the cause, and City Greenwood Cemetery as the resting place.
The family line: raised one child.
Wikipedia files Mary Martin under Singers from New York (state), People from Weatherford, Texas and Actresses from Rancho Mirage, California.
Andrew Tate (1986) and Zoë Kravitz (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Royal College of Art
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (1956) and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1960)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
- Working from
- 1938
- Cause of death
- colorectal cancer
- Buried at
- City Greenwood Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 37
What the chart says
Mary, according to the stars
Core essence
Mary is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Mary is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Mary wants to be loved
Mary wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Mary even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Mary creates
How Mary makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Mary creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Mary is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Mary is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Mary does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Mary's birth date. Working below.
Where Mary sits
Six lines
Mary’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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Mary Martin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Weatherford 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 Weatherford that night
Computed for 32.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mirach stood nearest the zenith over Weatherford at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.4° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.
Weatherford sits at 32.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −57.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Weatherford on any night.
The Moon, 19% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Weatherford, United States
The death is recorded at Rancho Mirage, Riverside County in 1990.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Mary Martin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Mary's chart is
Chart pattern score
45 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde
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 →The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Mary Martin's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 1, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Mary Martin was born on December 1, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Mary Martin's birth date, December 1, 1913, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Mary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mary Martin's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mary Martin combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Mary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMoonoppositionMars0.1° to 7.4° orb
Mary’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.3° to 1.8° orb
Mary’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineMars1.6° to 1.7° orb
Mary’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineMars2.0° to 3.4° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter2.7° to 3.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.6° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter4.1° to 4.5° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune5.1° to 5.3° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.6° to 6.7° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune5.6° to 6.9° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.8° to 6.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Mary’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 10°30′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 28°47′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 6°09′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 18°49′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 0°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Chiron square Sun 1.5°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.6°
- Eros conjunction Sun 2.8°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 2.9°
Mary’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Mary’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 0.4°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.9°
More people like Mary
Other musicians
- Alexander Schneider1908
- Paul Williams1940
- Bono1960
- Bellamy Young1970
- Pete Wentz1979
- John Hughes1930
Born in United States
- Burt LancasterAmerican actor
- Wayne MorrisAmerican actor
- Dorothy ComingoreAmerican actress
- Frank ConniffAmerican journalist
- Vance TrimbleAmerican journalist
- Alfred BesterAmerican author
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- Jennifer ConnellyAmerican actress
- Ben StillerAmerican actor and comedian
- Jay-ZAmerican rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur
Born in Ox years
- Shane BuecheleAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Sam DarnoldAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Chauncey Gardner-JohnsonAmerican football player (born 1997)
Also born on December 1
- Andrew Tate1986
- Zoë Kravitz1988
- Chanel Iman1990
- Robert Irwin2003
- Bette Midler1945
- Janelle Monáe1985
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Bengt EkerotSwedish actor and director
- Murray HamiltonAmerican actor
- Leandro FirminoBrazilian actor
Other Sagittarius Ox charts
- Kimberly LoaizaMexican singer
- Ronnie Ortiz-MagroAmerican reality television personality
- Amanda SeyfriedAmerican actress
- Maude ApatowAmerican actress (born 1997)
Other Radiant Seekers
- Thomas C. SüdhofGerman biochemist
- Harold UreyAmerican physical chemist
- Mario Capecchimolecular geneticist and Nobel laureate
- Fritz PreglSlovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Jeff TimmonsAmerican singer
- William TellAmerican rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist
- Brittany SnowAmerican actress and model
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Mary’s cards
Computed from December 1, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q285483 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mary Martin 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 Mary Martin.
Quick answers about Mary Martin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mary Martin?
- Mary Martin was a Sagittarius: born December 1, 1913, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Mary Martin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 1, 1913 birth.
- What was Mary Martin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Mary Martin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Mary Martin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mary Martin's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
