Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson (born January 3, 1956, Peekskill, United States), aged 70, is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Notable films include Braveheart, Apocalypto and The Passion of the Christ. Gibson's honours include Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Picture and Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
Mel Gibson’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Goat, with 
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Mel Gibson’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 1880
1958
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Mel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Mel, according to the stars
Core essence
Mel is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Mel is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Mel wants to be loved
Mel wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Mel be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Mel creates
How Mel makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Mel creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Mel is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Mel 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 Mel's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mel sits
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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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Mel Gibson's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 3, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Mel Gibson was born on January 3, 1956, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Mel Gibson's birth date, January 3, 1956, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Mel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mel Gibson's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mel Gibson 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
No documented birth time exists for Mel Gibson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Mel’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.5° to 1.9° orb
Mel’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
Mel’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb
Mel’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquareNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
Mel’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.3° to 2.8° orb
Mel’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.8° to 2.0° orb
Mel’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.8° to 2.0° orb
Mel’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
Mel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.7° orb
Mel’s growth and depths act as one.
stableMarssquarePluto4.8° to 5.5° orb
Mel’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.7° to 6.2° orb
Mel’s drive and discipline act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Mel’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 4°04′ (moves 0.08° 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 Mel making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAquarius 11°52′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Mel is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosSagittarius or Scorpio during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Mel attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 20°26′ (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. Mel is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 3°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Mel is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Eros square Jupiter 0.9°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.9°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 1.0°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 1.0°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.2°
- Eros square Pluto 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.2°
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°).
Mel’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. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Mel is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Mel’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.
T-square onto Neptune · Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.0°
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.9°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mel Gibson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Mel’s cards
Every card is computed from January 3, 1956, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Mel Gibson, 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
Mel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42229, 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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mel Gibson 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 Mel Gibson.
Quick answers about Mel Gibson’s chart
- How old is Mel Gibson?
- Mel Gibson is 70 years old, born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mel Gibson?
- Mel Gibson is a Capricorn: born January 3, 1956, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
- What is Mel Gibson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 3, 1956 birth.
- What time was Mel Gibson 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.
- How tall is Mel Gibson?
- Mel Gibson is 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Mel Gibson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the January 3, 1956 birth date.
- What is Mel Gibson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 3, 1956 birth date.
- Where is Mel Gibson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mel Gibson's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
