Matthew Brelis
Matthew Brelis (born August 30, 1957, Boston, United States), aged 69, is an American journalist (1957- ). Brelis's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and Nieman Fellowship.
Matthew Brelis’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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Matthew Brelis’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Matthew in the U.S.?
#32
US rank in 2025
~1,659,655
Americans share it since 1880
1983
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Matthew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
33 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Lilac · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Matthew, according to the stars
Core essence
Matthew notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Matthew is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Matthew feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Matthew needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Matthew wants to be loved
Matthew wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Matthew gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Matthew creates
How Matthew makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Matthew builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Matthew is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Matthew is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Matthew 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 Matthew'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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Matthew Brelis's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 30, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Matthew Brelis was born on August 30, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 33
Life Path 33Teaches by carrying everyone's load.
Matthew Brelis's birth date, August 30, 1957, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 33 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with teaching through care, service and example. Numerologists read it as an intensified 6, the nurturer's instinct turned toward a community rather than a household. The corresponding tension is self-sacrifice, with the caution that giving at that scale needs a source that is also being filled.
What stands out in Matthew’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Matthew Brelis' date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Matthew Brelis combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Matthew’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Matthew Brelis, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Scorpio 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.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.1° orb
Matthew’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareSaturn0.5° to 1.4° orb
Matthew’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.2° orb
Matthew’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussextileUranus3.0° to 4.1° orb
Matthew’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.4° to 3.5° orb
Matthew’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileUranus4.5° to 4.7° orb
Matthew’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareSaturn6.0° to 6.6° orb
Matthew’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionPluto6.2° to 7.1° orb
Matthew’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMars7.1° to 7.4° orb
Matthew’s core identity and drive act as one.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 13.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 2.2° to 15.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Matthew’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 13°37′ (moves 0.05° 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 Matthew making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCancer 9°56′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Matthew is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosVirgo 22°32′ (moves 0.86° 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. Matthew is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 19°30′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Matthew feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 10°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Matthew is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Chiron trine Venus 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.7°
- Ceres square Venus 2.8°
- Ceres sextile Sun 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°).
Matthew’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Matthew is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Matthew’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 Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.6°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Matthew Brelis, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Matthew’s cards
Every card is computed from August 30, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Matthew Brelis, 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
Matthew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q99690046, 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.
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 Matthew Brelis.
Quick answers about Matthew Brelis’s chart
- How old is Matthew Brelis?
- Matthew Brelis is 69 years old, born August 30, 1957 in Boston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Matthew Brelis?
- Matthew Brelis is a Virgo: born August 30, 1957, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster.
- What is Matthew Brelis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 30, 1957 birth.
- What time was Matthew Brelis 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 Matthew Brelis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology from the August 30, 1957 birth date.
- What is Matthew Brelis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 30, 1957 birth date.
- Where is Matthew Brelis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Matthew Brelis's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
