Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926, Brownsville, United States), aged 100, is an American comedian, filmmaker, and actor (born 1926). Brooks is best known for History of the World, Part I, High Anxiety and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Brooks's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Grammy Hall of Fame and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.
Mel Brooks’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Mel
Mel Brooks’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Mel in the U.S.?
#7031
US rank in 2025
~4,201
Americans share it since 1902
1958
its peak year
In 1926, 25 American boys were registered Mel — 1,500th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 6: tact against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange
The record
What sets Mel apart
Elon Musk (1971) and Muhammad Yunus (1940) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Mel, according to the stars
Core essence
Mel feels the room before entering it. The core of Mel 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 Mel, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Mel needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Mel needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Mel creates
How Mel makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Mel creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Mel is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Mel is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Mel gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Mel's birth date. Working below.
Where Mel sits
Six lines
Mel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Mel Brooks
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brownsville 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 Brownsville that night
Computed for 40.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Brownsville at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.0° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
Brownsville sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 87% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.
How unusual Mel's chart is
Chart pattern score
59 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · 3 planets at a critical degree · T-square onto Venus
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
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Mel Brooks's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 28, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Mel Brooks was born on June 28, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Mel Brooks's birth date, June 28, 1926, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Mel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mel Brooks' date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mel Brooks combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Mel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 21° Aquarius 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
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Mel’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Mel’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.4° to 0.7° orb
Mel’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareJupiter2.2° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableSunsquareMars2.9° to 3.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.1° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.5° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.9° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn7.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Mel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°32′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 5°02′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 18°56′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 6°22′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 2°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.1°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.4°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.9°
Mel’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Mel’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, 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.
T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.6°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
Mel’s family here
One relative of Mel Brooks also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Mel
Other screenwriters
- Richard Matheson1926
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala1927
- Peter Sellers1925
- Robert Shaw1927
- Harper Lee1926
- John Kander1927
Born in United States
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- Tony BennettAmerican singer
- James MerrillAmerican poet
- Poul AndersonAmerican science fiction writer
- Marilyn MonroeAmerican actress and model
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More charts like Mel’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Sandra Ortega MeraSpanish billionaire, daughter of the founders of the clothing giant Inditex
- Morris ChangTaiwanese businessman and electrical engineer (born 1931)
- Mark KurtserRussian physician
Born in Tiger years
- Odafe OwehAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Kene NwangwuAmerican football player
- Pierre Strong Jr.American football player
Also born on June 28
- Elon Musk1971
- Muhammad Yunus1940
- Maria Göppert Mayer1906
- Kevin De Bruyne1991
- Itamar Franco1930
- Markiplier1989
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Lance HenriksenAmerican actor
- Jeff BridgesAmerican actor
- Patrick McGoohanIrish-American actor
Other Cancer Tiger charts
- Karl JacobsAmerican Twitch streamer and YouTuber
- Tana MongeauAmerican Internet personality
- Agnez MoIndonesian singer and actress
- Lindsay LohanAmerican actress and singer
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- James Truslow AdamsAmerican writer and historian
- Jennifer EganAmerican novelist, short story writer
- Eddie AdamsAmerican photographer
- Geraldine BrooksAustralian-American journalist and author
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Simone BilesAmerican artistic gymnast
- Alessandra AmbrosioBrazilian model
- Victoria JusticeAmerican actress and singer
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Mel’s cards
Computed from June 28, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
7 · Seeker☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104266 (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 Angela George at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mel Brooks at Wikipedia, IMDb, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mel Brooks.
Quick answers about Mel Brooks’s chart
- How old is Mel Brooks?
- Mel Brooks is 100 years old, born June 28, 1926 in Brownsville, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mel Brooks?
- Mel Brooks is a Cancer: born June 28, 1926, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Mel Brooks's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 28, 1926 birth.
- What is Mel Brooks's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mel Brooks's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mel Brooks's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mel Brooks's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
