Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born December 28, 1922, Manhattan, United States; died 2018), was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. Lee is best remembered for Marvel Comics. Lee's honours include Will Eisner Hall of Fame, Saturn Awards and Disney Legends.
Stan Lee’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dog, with 
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Stan Lee’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Stan in the U.S.?
#10534
US rank in 2025
~8,480
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Stan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Stan apart
John von Neumann (1903) and Liu Xiaobo (1955) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Stan, according to the stars
Core essence
Stan is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Stan is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Stan wants to be loved
Stan 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 Stan even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Stan creates
How Stan makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Stan 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: Stan is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Stan 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Stan slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Stan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Stan Lee's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 28, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Stan Lee was born on December 28, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Stan Lee's birth date, December 28, 1922, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Stan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stan Lee's date-only chart is Mars trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Stan Lee combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Stan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Stan Lee, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 1.4° orb
Stan’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.0° to 0.3° orb
Stan’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranustrinePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
Stan’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.4° orb
Stan’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.9° to 2.6° orb
Stan’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrinePluto2.0° to 2.7° orb
Stan’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitertrineUranus2.3° to 2.4° orb
Stan’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrinePluto2.3° to 2.5° orb
Stan’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunoppositionPluto3.5° to 4.6° orb
Stan’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsextileUranus3.6° to 4.6° orb
Stan’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.0° to 5.2° orb
Stan’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Stan’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.
⚷ ChironAries 12°58′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Stan may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 28°49′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Stan is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosCapricorn 11°35′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Stan is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 19°17′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Stan is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 9°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Stan carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.7°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.0°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Eros opposition Pluto 1.3°
- Chiron square Pluto 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°).
Stan’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. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Stan is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Stan’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.
Grand trine · Mars, Jupiter, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.6°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Stan Lee, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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- Rand PaulUnited States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on December 28
- John von Neumann1903
- Liu Xiaobo1955
- Denzel Washington1954
- Sienna Miller1981
- Salvador Sobral1989
- Dhirubhai Ambani1932
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Other Capricorn Dog charts
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Other Gilded Visionarys
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- Robert IrwinAustralian conservationist and wildlife photographer (born 2003)
- Pax Jolie-Pittadopted son of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
- Bigi Jacksonyoungest son of Michael Jackson
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Stan’s cards
Every card is computed from December 28, 1922, 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
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Stan Lee, 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
Stan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q181900, 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 US Embassy Tokyo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stan Lee at Wikipedia, therealstanlee.com, 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Stan Lee.
Quick answers about Stan Lee’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Stan Lee?
- Stan Lee was a Capricorn: born December 28, 1922, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog.
- What was Stan Lee's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 28, 1922 birth.
- What time was Stan Lee 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 was Stan Lee?
- Stan Lee was 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Stan Lee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the December 28, 1922 birth date.
- What was Stan Lee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 28, 1922 birth date.
- Where was Stan Lee's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Stan Lee's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
