Selina Tusitala Marsh
Selina Tusitala Marsh (born April 21, 1971, Auckland, New Zealand), aged 55, is a New Zealand poet-scholar. Marsh is best known for Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference. Marsh's honours include Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and Humanities Aronui Medal.
Selina Tusitala Marsh’s zodiac sign is Aries or Taurus (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Selina
How common is the name Selina in the U.S.?
#1278
US rank in 2025
~19,225
Americans share it since 1880
1995
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1971, Selina came 689th, carried by 222 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Selina’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
33
Expression · lifting other people
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on S (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Selina’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Selina apart
Elizabeth II (1926) and James McAvoy (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Selina, according to the stars
How Selina wants to be loved
Selina wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Selina, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Selina creates
How Selina 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. Selina 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: Selina is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Selina is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Selina does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Selina's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Selina Tusitala Marsh
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Auckland 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 Auckland that night
Computed for 36.85°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Auckland was Suhail, in Vela, 72.2° up.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 36.8°S there are stars that never set at all. Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman stay up year round.
Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon down and 20% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Selina's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · Five planets retrograde · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aries or Taurus Sun
Selina Tusitala Marsh was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Selina Tusitala Marsh was born on April 21, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Selina Tusitala Marsh's birth date, April 21, 1971, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Selina’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Selina Tusitala Marsh's date-only chart is Mars trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Selina’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.1° to 1.3° orb
Selina’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.3° to 0.7° orb
Selina’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 2.6° orb
Selina’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.7° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.4° to 4.0° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn3.7° to 4.8° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.2° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysquareMars4.8° to 6.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.9° to 5.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto5.0° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune5.1° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Selina’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 10°60′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 27°55′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 11°27′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 5°53′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.5°
Selina’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Selina’s chart
Kite · Mars, Saturn, Pluto, VenusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 2.3°
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- Samantha Power1970
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More charts like Selina’s
Born in Pig years
- Bruce CattonAmerican historian and journalist
- Joe RosenthalAmerican photographer
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Also born on April 21
- Elizabeth II1926
- James McAvoy1979
- Glen Hansard1970
- Tony Romo1980
- Hyein2008
- Andie MacDowell1958
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Jalen WilsonAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Sion JamesAmerican basketball player
- Chaz LanierAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Lamar JacksonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Foyesade OluokunAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Calijah KanceyAmerican football player (born 2001)
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Selina’s cards
Computed from April 21, 1971. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Selina’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q38082917 (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 Zsoakai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Selina Tusitala Marsh at Wikipedia and tusitala.nz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Selina Tusitala Marsh.
Quick answers about Selina Tusitala Marsh’s chart
- How old is Selina Tusitala Marsh?
- Selina Tusitala Marsh is 55 years old, born April 21, 1971 in Auckland, New Zealand.
- What zodiac sign is Selina Tusitala Marsh?
- Selina Tusitala Marsh was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Selina Tusitala Marsh's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 21, 1971 birth.
- What is Selina Tusitala Marsh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Selina Tusitala Marsh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Selina Tusitala Marsh's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Selina Tusitala Marsh's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
