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Stephan Martinière

Stephan Martinière (born May 3, 1962, Paris, France), aged 64, is a French artist. Martinière's honours include Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration – Hardcover and Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist.

Stephan Martinière’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Stephan Martinière’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 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Stephan in the U.S.?

#1850

US rank in 2025

~27,910

Americans share it since 1880

1989

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Stephan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Blush · Soft pink

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Stephan, according to the stars

Core essence

Stephan is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Stephan is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Stephan wants to be loved

Stephan 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 Stephan like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Stephan creates

How Stephan makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Stephan creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Stephan is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Stephan is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Stephan 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 Stephan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Stephan sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Stephan

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Stephan

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Stephan

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Stephan

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Stephan

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Stephan

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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If you only read one paragraph

Taurus Sun

Slow to move, slower to leave.

Stephan Martinière's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 3, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Stephan Martinière was born on May 3, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Stephan Martinière's birth date, May 3, 1962, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Stephan’s chart

Stephan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Stephan Martinière, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.2° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.4° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.5° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 1° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.2° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.4° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.4° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.9° orbSun in Taurus · 12°32′12°Moon in Taurus · 2°35′Mercury in Gemini · 0°21′Venus in Gemini · 6°11′Mars in Aries · 10°37′10°Jupiter in Pisces · 7°26′Saturn in Aquarius · 11°07′11°Uranus in Leo · 26°24′ · retrograde26°Neptune in Scorpio · 12°07′ · retrograde12°Pluto in Virgo · 7°35′ · retrograde

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.

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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.

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Stephan’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn0.1° to 0.9° orb

    Stephan’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.1° to 0.2° orb

    Stephan’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter0.7° to 1.8° orb

    Stephan’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableVenussquarePluto0.8° to 2.0° orb

    Stephan’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn0.9° to 1.9° orb

    Stephan’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.0° orb

    Stephan’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus3.1° to 4.8° orb

    Stephan’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussextileMars4.2° to 4.7° orb

    Stephan’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn4.3° to 5.5° orb

    Stephan’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSuntrinePluto4.5° to 5.4° orb

    Stephan’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb

    Stephan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Stephan’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.

  • ChironPisces 10°05′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Stephan absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • CeresGemini 15°14′ (moves 0.40° 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 Stephan feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ErosAries 25°37′ (moves 0.72° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Stephan is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • HygieaAquarius 28°14′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Stephan is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • Black Moon LilithVirgo 20°46′ (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 Stephan exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Eros trine Uranus 0.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.8°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.0°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 2.1°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 2.4°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 2.5°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 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°).

Stephan’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. 1. Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. Neptune5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Stephan is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Stephan’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.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Sun, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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 sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Stephan Martinière, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Stephan’s cards

Every card is computed from May 3, 1962, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Star

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

yang Water

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yang Wood

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Metal

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Stephan Martinière, 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

Stephan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3498437, 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.

The same Stephan Martinière at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 Stephan Martinière.

Quick answers about Stephan Martinière’s chart

How old is Stephan Martinière?
Stephan Martinière is 64 years old, born May 3, 1962 in Paris, France.
What zodiac sign is Stephan Martinière?
Stephan Martinière is a Taurus: born May 3, 1962, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger.
What is Stephan Martinière's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 3, 1962 birth.
What time was Stephan Martinière 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.
What is Stephan Martinière's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the May 3, 1962 birth date.
What is Stephan Martinière's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 3, 1962 birth date.
Where is Stephan Martinière's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Stephan Martinière's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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