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, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Mary
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
Of the names registered in 1953, Mary came 1st among girls and 599th among boys, carried by 64,389 American girls and 146 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mary’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
1
Soul Urge · independence
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1953, 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
Mary Steenburgen took the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture in 1980, at 27.
William Esper Studio and North Little Rock High School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1978, at 25.
On the family side, Mary Steenburgen was born to Nellie Mae Wall and Maurice Steenburgen, married Malcolm McDowell and Ted Danson and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Mary Steenburgen: People from Chilmark, Massachusetts, Hendrix College alumni and William Esper Studio alumni.
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834) and James Dean (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- William Esper Studio, North Little Rock High School and Hendrix College
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1981), Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (2012) and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture (1980)
- Nominated for
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actress and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
- Working from
- 1978
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 57
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. Working below.
Where Mary sits
Six lines
Mary’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Steenburgen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newport 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 Newport that night
Computed for 35.61°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Newport at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.3° above the horizon in Auriga.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
From 35.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −54.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Newport on any night.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 30% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Newport, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles · Manhattan
Wikidata records Los Angeles and Manhattan as Mary Steenburgen'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 Mary Steenburgen: 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
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Sagittarius 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
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
stableJupitersextileUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.3° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.5° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 4.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.7° to 5.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 17°16′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 4°39′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 12°58′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 17°02′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 5°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Mary’s dominant planets
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
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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
Mary’s family here
2 relatives of Mary Steenburgen also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Mary’s cards
Computed from February 8, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108935 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mary Steenburgen.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is Mary Steenburgen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
