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George Michael

George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; June 25, 1963, East Finchley, United Kingdom, 06:00; died 2016), was an English singer. Michael is best remembered for Careless Whisper, Last Christmas and Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go. Michael's honours include Grammy Awards, BRIT Awards and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

George Michael’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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George Michael’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Pioneer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#126

US rank in 2025

~1,497,260

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

In 1963, 12,079 American boys and 81 girls were registered George — 34th among boys and 1,223rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What George’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, not the name they published under.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

5

Soul Urge · freedom

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on G (7) and closes on S (1).

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

George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1963, 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 George apart

Faith, Careless Whisper and I Want Your Sex. That is the work the name is attached to.

The schooling ran through Kingsbury High School and Bushey Meads School.

George Michael was 18 when the work began in 1981.

The record gives fatty liver disease as the cause, and Highgate Cemetery as the resting place.

On the family side, George Michael was born to Lezli Angold Panayiotou and Kyriacos Panayiotou.

Yann Martel and Li Shufu shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.

Known for
Faith, Careless Whisper and I Want Your Sex
Educated at
Kingsbury High School and Bushey Meads School
Instruments
voice
Awards
Grammy Awards (1988), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2023) and BRIT Awards (1985)
Nominated for
Juno Award for Best Selling Single and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song
Working from
1981
Cause of death
fatty liver disease
Buried at
Highgate Cemetery
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
105

What the chart says

George, according to the stars

Core essence

George feels the room before entering it. The core of George 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 George, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, George needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What George needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How George wants to be loved

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

How George creates

How George makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. George creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: George is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. George is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means George channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from George's birth date. Working below.

Where George sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
George

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
George

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
George

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
George

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

PracticalVisionary
George

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
George

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

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to George Michael

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

George’s birth-sky starCaphyellow-white · CassiopeiaCaph, in Cassiopeia. A yellow-white star, 79° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Caph →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 33.8° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above East Finchley at 06:00, George Michael’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over East Finchley that night

Computed for 51.59°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at East Finchley was Caph, in Cassiopeia, 79.0° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 96 catalog stars were up in all.

East Finchley sits at 51.6°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −38.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from East Finchley on any night.

Sun -9° below the horizon, Moon down and 17% lit at waxing crescent.

The name and the places

Born as
Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou
Known as
George Michael
Born in
East Finchley, United Kingdom

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What George's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Purple Star 紫微, The Charmer 貪狼 in 卯

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Outer world

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifestor, profile 6/2

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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.

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The quick version

Cancer Sun

Remembers what you said in March.

George Michael's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time.

What Cancer means →

Water Rabbit

Gentle, and never cornered.

George Michael was born on June 25, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

George Michael's birth date, June 25, 1963, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in George’s chart

George’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.8° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.3° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.4° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.6° orbMars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.7° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.9° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 2.1° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.6° orbSun in Cancer · 2°56′ · house 1☉2°Moon in Leo · 20°51′ · house 2☽20°Mercury in Gemini · 13°40′ · house 12☿13°Venus in Gemini · 15°03′ · house 12♀15°Mars in Virgo · 11°32′ · house 3♂11°Jupiter in Aries · 16°18′ · house 10♃16°Saturn in Aquarius · 22°44′ · house 8 · retrograde♄℞22°Uranus in Virgo · 2°06′ · house 3♅2°Neptune in Scorpio · 13°07′ · house 5 · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Virgo · 9°50′ · house 3♇9°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCnc 17°13′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCap 17°13′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCPsc 16°21′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICVir 16°21′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunsextileUranusseparating · 0.8° orb

    George’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • VenussextileJupiterapplying · 1.3° orb

    George’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 1.4° orb

    George’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • MarssextileNeptuneapplying · 1.6° orb

  • MarsconjunctionPlutoseparating · 1.7° orb

  • MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 1.9° orb

  • MercurysquareMarsseparating · 2.1° orb

  • MercurysextileJupiterapplying · 2.6° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 3.3° orb

  • VenussquareMarsseparating · 3.5° orb

  • MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 3.8° orb

  • MoontrineJupiterseparating · 4.5° orb

  • VenussquarePlutoseparating · 5.2° orb

  • UranusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 7.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

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

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°53′ · House 9

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 17°29′ · House 3

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 28°03′ · House 7

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 5°30′ · House 11

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 7°18′ · House 5

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Venus 0.2°
  • Ceres sextile Ascendant 0.3°
  • Chiron square Mercury 1.2°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.8°
  • Chiron trine Ascendant 2.3°
  • Ceres square Venus 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 2.6°

George’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect

Configurations in George’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 quincunx Neptune 0.5°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
  • Uranus quintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 1.9°

George’s houses

George’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CancerMoon in Leo, house 2Sunself, body, how you arrive
2LeoSun in Cancer, house 1Moonmoney, possessions, self-worth
3VirgoMercury in Gemini, house 12Mars, Uranus, Plutomind, siblings, the local world
4LibraVenus in Gemini, house 12emptyhome, family, roots
5ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 3Neptunecreativity, romance, play
6SagittariusJupiter in Aries, house 10emptywork, habits, health
7CapricornSaturn in Aquarius, house 8emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AquariusUranus in Virgo, house 3Saturnshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 5emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AriesMars in Virgo, house 3Jupitercareer, reputation, public life
11TaurusVenus in Gemini, house 12emptyfriends, community, the future
12GeminiMercury in Gemini, house 12Mercury, Venusthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Born the same day as George

2 other people here were born on June 25, 1963, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from East Finchley, at 51.6°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.

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George’s cards

Computed from June 25, 1963. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Pioneer

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Hour

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q130311 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by University of Houston Digital Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by George Michael.

Quick answers about George Michael’s chart

What zodiac sign was George Michael?
George Michael was a Cancer: born June 25, 1963, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time.
What was George Michael's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 25, 1963 birth.
What time was George Michael born?
06:00 local time in East Finchley, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What was George Michael's rising sign?
Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 06:00 birth time in East Finchley, United Kingdom (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What was George Michael's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was George Michael's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 14°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was George Michael's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 7°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was George Michael's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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