Martha Stewart's Birth Chart
Martha Stewart was born on August 3, 1941 at 13:33 in Jersey City, NJ. The chart has the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Sagittarius, with Scorpio rising.
| Born | August 3, 1941 |
| Time | 13:33 |
| Place | Jersey City, NJ |
Martha Stewart's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Leo: Lit From Within
Your vitality rises when someone is watching and drops when the room looks away. You bring warmth into whatever you join, praise freely, give generously, and carry a pride that is easily bruised by being overlooked. People experience you as large and steady, someone whose mood sets the temperature of the room. Loyalty is how you love, and being taken for granted is what wounds you most. Routine, anonymous work drains you, and anything that bears your stamp restores you.
Moon in Sagittarius: Room to Roam
You feel best when there is somewhere to go. Confinement, a small room, a small plan, a conversation that keeps circling, makes you restless in the body before the mind catches up. Comfort is open space, a long drive, people who laugh easily. Your moods are warm and quick to lift, and you tend to trust that things will work out, which steadies others and sometimes skips past what hurts. Being needed too closely feels like a leash, and you love most freely with the door left open.
Scorpio rising: Taking Your Measure
You arrive watching, and people feel watched. Strangers meet a still body, a steady gaze, and a face that gives nothing until it has taken your measure, and some of them are drawn in while others step back. People tell you their secrets and assume you have worse ones of your own. Trust is given slowly and withdrawn completely, and a betrayal years old still sits in your posture when that person walks in. Your intensity reads as threat or magnetism depending on the day.
Planet positions in Martha Stewart's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Leo | 10°58′ |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 25°25′ |
| Mercury | Cancer | 25°25′ |
| Venus | Virgo | 9°09′ |
| Mars | Aries | 16°18′ |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 14°49′ |
| Saturn | Taurus | 27°18′ |
| Uranus | Taurus | 29°54′ |
| Neptune | Virgo | 25°47′ |
| Pluto | Leo | 4°07′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Virgo | 23°34′ |
| Chiron | Leo | 5°33′ |
| Ascendant | Scorpio | 10°15′ |
| Midheaven | Leo | 18°39′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 4, Earth 4, Air 1, Water 1. By modality: Cardinal 2, Fixed 4, Mutable 4.
The tightest aspects in Martha Stewart's chart
- Mercury sextile Neptune, orb 0°22′
- Moon square Neptune, orb 0°23′
- Pluto conjunct Chiron, orb 1°26′
- Mars sextile Jupiter, orb 1°30′
- Saturn trine Neptune, orb 1°30′
- Moon square North Node, orb 1°51′
- Mercury sextile North Node, orb 1°51′
- Mercury sextile Saturn, orb 1°52′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mercury sextile Neptune: Dream Into Words
There's a channel here between the part of you that thinks in sentences and the part that picks up on things nobody said out loud. It shows up as writing, drawing, or explaining that carries an image with it, and as hunches you can actually put into language. The channel is available rather than automatic; it's obvious in people who use it and quiet in people who don't.
Moon square Neptune: Fog Against Home
There's a pull between what would actually make you feel safe and a picture of safety that isn't quite real. One side keeps dissolving the boundary around your private life, letting people, moods, and other people's pain leak straight into your gut. The other side keeps trying to build walls around it. That grinding is where your unusual emotional radar comes from, and also why you sometimes can't tell your feeling from someone else's.
Pluto conjunct Chiron: Fused Wound Depth
The wound and the excavation instinct are the same thing in you. You cannot look at an old injury without digging all the way to its root, and you cannot dig anywhere without hitting the injury. This makes you unusually good at sitting with people in the worst part of their story, and it means your own healing never happens gently.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Martha Stewart's recorded date, time and place of birth. The rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses depend on the birth time, so they are only as reliable as the time on record. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.