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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

Steve ranked 121st among boys and 4,291st among girls in 1940, the year of this birth, with 1,555 American boys and 6 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Steve’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

8

Soul Urge · achievement

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on S (1) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Steve’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Steve apart

Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer; the grave is at Eagle Point National Cemetery.

Wikipedia's editors put Steve Mason under Poets from Oregon, Military personnel from Oregon and Deaths from lung cancer in Oregon.

Ferran Torres (2000) and Tony Robbins (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Cause of death
lung cancer
Buried at
Eagle Point National Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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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. Working below.

Where Steve sits

Six lines

Steve’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Brooklyn that night

Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Castor, in Gemini, 81.2° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at last quarter, 50% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Brooklyn, United States
Lived in
San Diego

Wikidata records San Diego as Steve Mason's home, against Brooklyn as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Ashland, Jackson County in 2005.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Steve Mason: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Steve's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Air planets · A leaning bowl

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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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.

What Pisces means →

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.

What the Dragon means →

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.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Steve’s chart

Steve’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableUranustrineNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.6° to 7.7° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 27°56′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.1°
  • Chiron square Jupiter 2.3°
  • Eros trine Venus 2.7°

Steve’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Steve’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-sextile Saturn 0.1°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°

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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated

Steve’s cards

Computed from February 29, 1940. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7613291 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Steve Mason's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Steve Mason's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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