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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 33 in numerology.Your match with Matthew
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
Of the names registered in 1957, Matthew came 83rd among boys and 5,849th among girls, carried by 5,234 American boys and 6 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Matthew’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
11
Soul Urge · insight
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on M (4) and closes on W (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Matthew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Matthew apart
Ernest Rutherford (1871) and Warren Buffett (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Matthew sits
Six lines
Matthew’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 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.
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 Matthew Brelis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston 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 Boston that night
Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Boston was Vega, in Lyra, 85.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.4°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 Boston at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 38% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.
How unusual Matthew's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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 →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 33 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Scorpio 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
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
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus4.5° to 4.7° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn6.0° to 6.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto6.2° to 7.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars7.1° to 7.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 13°37′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 9°56′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 22°32′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 19°30′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 10°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Matthew’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Matthew’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.6°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
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Also born on August 30
- Ernest Rutherford1871
- Warren Buffett1930
- Cameron Diaz1972
- Bebe Rexha1989
- Thom Tillis1960
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- John Menard, Jr.American racing driver
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- Alexander GerkoRussian-British businessperson
Other Virgo Rooster charts
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- Elia KazanAmerican director and actor
Other Evergreen Healers
- Kenzō TakadaJapanese fashion designer
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Famous people with Life Path 33
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Matthew’s cards
Computed from August 30, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
33 · Lightkeeper☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Matthew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q99690046 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Matthew Brelis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
- What is Matthew Brelis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
