Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953, Newport, United States), aged 73, is an American actress, singer and songwriter. Steenburgen's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame.
Mary Steenburgen’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Dragon, with 
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Mary Steenburgen’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Mary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Mary, according to the stars
Core essence
Mary is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Mary is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Mary is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Mary needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Mary wants to be loved
Mary wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Mary creates
How Mary makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Mary 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: Mary is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Mary 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 Mary leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Mary gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Mary's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mary sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Mary Steenburgen at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Mary Steenburgen's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 8, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Mary Steenburgen was born on February 8, 1953, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Mary Steenburgen's birth date, February 8, 1953, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Mary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mary Steenburgen's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Mary Steenburgen combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Mary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Mary Steenburgen, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Sagittarius 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.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.2° orb
Mary’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.1° to 2.9° orb
Mary’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb
Mary’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionPluto1.9° to 2.9° orb
Mary’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb
Mary’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.3° to 4.1° orb
Mary’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.5° orb
Mary’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineNeptune3.6° to 4.6° orb
Mary’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 4.8° orb
Mary’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.7° to 5.9° orb
Mary’s affections and drive act as one.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 1.8° to 14.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Mary’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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 17°16′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Mary is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresGemini 4°39′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Mary feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAquarius 12°58′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Mary is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 17°02′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Mary is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 5°16′ (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 Mary exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Eros square Jupiter 0.0°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.8°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.1°
- Hygiea square Sun 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°).
Mary’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. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
4 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Mary is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Mary’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mary Steenburgen, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Mary’s family here
2 relatives of Mary Steenburgen also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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Mary’s cards
Every card is computed from February 8, 1953, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Mary Steenburgen, 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
Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108935, 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 Angela George at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mary Steenburgen at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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.
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Quick answers about Mary Steenburgen’s chart
- How old is Mary Steenburgen?
- Mary Steenburgen is 73 years old, born February 8, 1953 in Newport, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mary Steenburgen?
- Mary Steenburgen is an Aquarius: born February 8, 1953, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon.
- What is Mary Steenburgen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 8, 1953 birth.
- What time was Mary Steenburgen 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.
- How tall is Mary Steenburgen?
- Mary Steenburgen is 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Mary Steenburgen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the February 8, 1953 birth date.
- What is Mary Steenburgen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 8, 1953 birth date.
- Where is Mary Steenburgen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mary Steenburgen's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
