Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall (born July 2, 1908, Baltimore, United States; died 1993), was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991. Marshall held office as Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Solicitor General of the United States. Marshall's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Spingarn Medal and honorary doctorate.
Thurgood Marshall’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Monkey, with 
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Thurgood Marshall’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
Thurgood’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
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The record
What sets Thurgood apart
Wisława Szymborska (1923) and Hans Bethe (1906) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Thurgood, according to the stars
Core essence
Thurgood feels the room before entering it. The core of Thurgood is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Thurgood, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Thurgood wants to be loved
Thurgood wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Thurgood gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Thurgood creates
How Thurgood makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Thurgood creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Thurgood is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Thurgood 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Thurgood does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Thurgood's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Thurgood Marshall's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 2, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Thurgood Marshall's birth date, July 2, 1908, 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 Thurgood’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Thurgood Marshall's date-only chart is Sun square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Thurgood Marshall combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Thurgood’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Thurgood Marshall, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableSunsquareSaturn0.1° to 1.0° orb
Thurgood’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.3° to 0.9° orb
Thurgood’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.4° to 0.9° orb
Thurgood’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
Thurgood’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.0° to 1.6° orb
Thurgood’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.0° to 1.6° orb
Thurgood’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.9° orb
Thurgood’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.7° to 4.2° orb
Thurgood’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.6° to 4.5° orb
Thurgood’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.7° to 4.3° orb
Thurgood’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableSunoppositionUranus4.3° to 5.3° orb
Thurgood’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.6° to 6.2° orb
Thurgood’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Thurgood’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 ℞Aquarius 22°45′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Thurgood making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresLibra 10°19′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Thurgood is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosVirgo 24°45′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Thurgood is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaGemini 10°07′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Thurgood needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 20°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Thurgood is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Ceres square Sun 0.0°
- Eros square Pluto 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 0.5°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.8°
- Chiron trine Pluto 1.9°
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°).
Thurgood’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. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
disposes Uranus; 6 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Thurgood is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Thurgood’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.
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Saturn · Sun, Uranus, SaturnAn 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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Thurgood Marshall, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Thurgood’s cards
Every card is computed from July 2, 1908, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Thurgood Marshall, 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
Thurgood’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312348, 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 Robert S. Oakes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Thurgood Marshall at Wikipedia 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.
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Quick answers about Thurgood Marshall’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Thurgood Marshall?
- Thurgood Marshall was a Cancer: born July 2, 1908, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey.
- What was Thurgood Marshall's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 2, 1908 birth.
- What time was Thurgood Marshall 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 Thurgood Marshall's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 2, 1908 birth date.
- What was Thurgood Marshall's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 2, 1908 birth date.
- Where was Thurgood Marshall's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Thurgood Marshall's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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