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Steve Mason

Steve Mason (born February 29, 1940, Brooklyn, United States; died 2005), was an American poet and military officer. Mason served as poet laureate.

Steve Mason’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Steve Mason’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#1617

US rank in 2025

~242,131

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Steve’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

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What the chart says

Steve, according to the stars

Core essence

Steve feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Steve is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Steve wants to be loved

Steve 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 Steve creates

How Steve makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Steve creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Steve 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Steve 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Steve is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Steve's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Steve sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Steve

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Steve

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Steve

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Steve

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Steve

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Steve

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Steve Mason

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Steve’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 81.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 63° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Pisces Sun

Soft edges, deep pull.

Steve Mason's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 29, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Metal Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

Steve Mason was born on February 29, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Steve Mason's birth date, February 29, 1940, 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 Steve’s chart

Steve’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Steve Mason, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.4° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.1° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.1° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.4° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.1° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 4.9° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 6.1° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 6.8° orbSun in Pisces · 9°58′☉9°Moon in Sagittarius · 5°05′☽5°Mercury in Pisces · 27°56′☿27°Venus in Aries · 20°44′♀20°Mars in Taurus · 8°33′♂8°Jupiter in Aries · 11°54′♃11°Saturn in Aries · 27°52′♄27°Uranus in Taurus · 18°29′♅18°Neptune in Virgo · 24°32′ · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Leo · 1°00′ · retrograde♇℞1°

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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Sextile 60°
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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.

  • stableSunsextileMars1.3° to 1.6° orb

    Steve’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto2.7° to 3.5° orb

    Steve’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.0° to 3.8° orb

    Steve’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb

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

  • stableUranustrineNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb

    Steve’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.6° to 7.7° orb

    Steve’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.3° to 13.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.9° to 13.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 3.8° to 17.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Steve’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 14°11′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Steve is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 13°52′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Steve caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 18°01′ (moves 0.56° over the day)

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Steve attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 27°56′ (moves 0.37° 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. Steve is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 18°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Steve is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.

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 sextile Saturn 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.1°
  • Chiron square Jupiter 2.3°
  • Eros trine Venus 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°).

Steve’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. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Steve is read as tuned to what is not said.

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 Steve’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°

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

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Steve’s cards

Every card is computed from February 29, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Steve Mason, 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

Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7613291, 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 Hon. Stewart B. McKinney of Connecticut and Steve Mason, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Steve Mason at Wikipedia.

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 Steve Mason.

Quick answers about Steve Mason’s chart

What zodiac sign was Steve Mason?
Steve Mason was a Pisces: born February 29, 1940, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon.
What was Steve Mason's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 29, 1940 birth.
What time was Steve Mason 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 was Steve Mason's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the February 29, 1940 birth date.
What was Steve Mason's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 29, 1940 birth date.
Where was Steve Mason's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Steve Mason's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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