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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Lorne
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 1903
1966
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1944, Lorne came 1,464th, carried by 22 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lorne’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Lorne David Lipowitz, not the name they published under.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on L (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lorne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1944, 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 Lorne apart
Lorne Michaels took the Canada's Walk of Fame in 2003, at 59.
The classrooms behind this chart: Forest Hill Collegiate Institute and University College.
The working life starts in 1968, at 24.
Lorne Michaels was married Rosie Shuster.
The same date carries Danny DeVito. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, University College and University of Toronto
- Awards
- Canada's Walk of Fame (2003), Time 100 (2025) and Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016)
- Working from
- 1968
- Citizenship
- Canada and United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 28
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. Working below.
Where Lorne sits
Six lines
Lorne’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Lorne Michaels
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Toronto on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Toronto that night
Computed for 43.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Toronto was Caph, in Cassiopeia, 73.9° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 95 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 43.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Toronto at all: they sit past the −46.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 5% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 34° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Lorne David Lipowitz
- Known as
- Lorne Michaels
- Born in
- Toronto, Canada
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Lorne Michaels: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Lorne's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableUranussextilePluto1.5° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune3.5° to 4.7° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo or Libra during this date
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 9°35′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aries 25°54′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 13°37′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Lorne’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Lorne’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.
- 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°
Born the same day as Lorne
Danny DeVito was born on November 17, 1944 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Toronto sits at 43.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Lorne’s cards
Computed from November 17, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lorne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q521221 (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 Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lorne Michaels at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Lorne Michaels's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Lorne Michaels's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo or Libra, changing sign during the birth date. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
