Nancy Marchand
Nancy Marchand (born June 19, 1928, Buffalo, United States; died 2000), was an American actress. Marchand's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Nancy Marchand’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Nancy
Nancy Marchand’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Nancy in the U.S.?
#967
US rank in 2025
~1,007,393
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1928, Nancy came 43rd among girls and 1,633rd among boys, carried by 5,537 American girls and 22 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nancy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on N (5) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nancy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Lilac · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1928, 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 Nancy apart
Nancy Marchand took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1981, at 53.
The classrooms behind this chart: HB Studio and Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts.
The working life starts in 1951, at 23.
Cause of death is recorded as pulmonary emphysema.
On the family side, Nancy Marchand was married Paul Sparer.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Nancy Marchand: Actresses from Buffalo, New York, Deaths from lung cancer in Connecticut and Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners.
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) and Boris Johnson (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- HB Studio, Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts and Amherst Central High School
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2000), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (1981) and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2000)
- Nominated for
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
- Working from
- 1951
- Cause of death
- pulmonary emphysema
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 32
What the chart says
Nancy, according to the stars
Core essence
Nancy 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. Nancy needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Nancy is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Nancy needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Nancy wants to be loved
Nancy 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 Nancy like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Nancy creates
How Nancy makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Nancy 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: Nancy 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Nancy 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Nancy 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 Nancy's birth date. Working below.
Where Nancy sits
Six lines
Nancy’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Nancy Marchand
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Buffalo 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 Buffalo that night
Computed for 42.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Buffalo was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 83.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Buffalo on any night.
Sun 1° below the horizon, Moon up and 7% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Buffalo, United States
The death is recorded at Stratford, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region in 2000.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Nancy Marchand: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Nancy's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Nancy Marchand's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 19, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Nancy Marchand was born on June 19, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Nancy Marchand's birth date, June 19, 1928, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Nancy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nancy Marchand's date-only chart is Venus sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Nancy Marchand combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Nancy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Cancer 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
stableVenussextileMars0.1° to 0.6° orb
Nancy’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb
Nancy’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineNeptune1.4° to 2.1° orb
Nancy’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileNeptune1.5° to 2.7° orb
stableSunsextileMars2.8° to 3.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.2° to 3.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.9° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.1° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 3.1° to 17.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Nancy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 8°49′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 16°26′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 13°48′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 26°22′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 22°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.3°
- Eros square Saturn 1.1°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.2°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.5°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.6°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.4°
Nancy’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Nancy’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 semi-square Neptune 0.3°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.3°
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on June 19
- Aung San Suu Kyi1945
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Nancy’s cards
Computed from June 19, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nancy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q257065 (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 CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nancy Marchand at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Nancy Marchand’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Nancy Marchand?
- Nancy Marchand was a Gemini: born June 19, 1928, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Nancy Marchand's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 19, 1928 birth.
- What was Nancy Marchand's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Nancy Marchand's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Nancy Marchand's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Nancy Marchand's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
