Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944, Toronto, Canada), aged 81, is a Canadian and American television producer, writer, and actor. Notable films include Man on the Moon. Michaels's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series and Companion of the Order of Canada.
Lorne Michaels’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Monkey, with 
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Lorne Michaels’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Lorne in the U.S.?
#13155
US rank in 2025
~4,352
Americans share it since 1880
1966
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Lorne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Lorne, according to the stars
Core essence
Lorne does not do surface. The core of Lorne is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Lorne is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Lorne is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Lorne needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Lorne wants to be loved
Lorne wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Lorne you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Lorne creates
How Lorne makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Lorne creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Lorne 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Lorne is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Lorne leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Lorne runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Lorne's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Lorne Michaels at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Lorne Michaels's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 17, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Lorne Michaels was born on November 17, 1944, which falls in a Wood 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 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Lorne Michaels's birth date, November 17, 1944, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Lorne’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lorne Michaels' date-only chart is Mercury trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Lorne Michaels combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Lorne’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Lorne Michaels, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° 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.
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.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 1.2° orb
Lorne’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.2° to 1.8° orb
Lorne’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.7° to 1.0° orb
Lorne’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.0° to 1.6° orb
Lorne’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussextilePluto1.5° orb
Lorne’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb
Lorne’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenussquareNeptune3.5° to 4.7° orb
Lorne’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
Lorne’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
Lorne’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrineNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
Lorne’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Lorne’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.
⚷ ChironVirgo or Libra during this date
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Lorne turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresLibra 9°35′ (moves 0.42° 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. Lorne is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Aries 25°54′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Lorne is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 13°37′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Lorne is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Lorne that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 Saturn 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.2°
- Chiron square Venus 1.7°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.9°
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°).
Lorne’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. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Lorne is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Lorne’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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.6°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.9°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Lorne Michaels, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Lorne
Danny DeVito was born on November 17, 1944 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Lorne’s cards
Every card is computed from November 17, 1944, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Lorne Michaels, 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
Lorne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q521221, 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 Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lorne Michaels at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lorne Michaels.
Quick answers about Lorne Michaels’s chart
- How old is Lorne Michaels?
- Lorne Michaels is 81 years old, born November 17, 1944 in Toronto, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Lorne Michaels?
- Lorne Michaels is a Scorpio: born November 17, 1944, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey.
- What is Lorne Michaels's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 17, 1944 birth.
- What time was Lorne Michaels 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 is Lorne Michaels's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the November 17, 1944 birth date.
- What is Lorne Michaels's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo or Libra, changing sign during the birth date. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 17, 1944 birth date.
- Where is Lorne Michaels's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lorne Michaels's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
