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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Mel
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 1902
1958
its peak year
The SSA recorded 93 American boys and 12 girls named Mel in 1956: 768th among boys and 3,624th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
11
Soul Urge · insight
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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 · 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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, 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 Mel apart
The Academy Award for Best Director came in 1996, when Mel Gibson was 40.
Study took Mel Gibson to National Institute of Dramatic Art.
Mel Gibson was 21 when the work began in 1977.
Mel Gibson was born to Anne Patricia Reilly and Hutton Gibson, married Robyn Moore and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files Mel Gibson under Best Director AACTA Award winners, American emigrants to Australia and Actors from Peekskill, New York.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892) and Greta Thunberg (2003) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- National Institute of Dramatic Art
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Director (1996), Academy Award for Best Picture (1996) and Golden Globe Award for Best Director (1996)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture
- Working from
- 1977
- Citizenship
- Ireland and United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 119
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. Working below.
Where Mel sits
Six lines
Mel’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Mel Gibson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Peekskill 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 Peekskill that night
Computed for 41.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Peekskill at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 5.6° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 108 catalog stars above the horizon.
Peekskill sits at 41.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Peekskill on any night.
The Moon, 59% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.
How unusual Mel's chart is
Chart pattern score
61 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Neptune · 2 planets at a critical degree
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
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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableUranussquareNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.3° to 2.8° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.8° to 2.0° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus1.8° to 2.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.7° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.8° to 5.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.7° to 6.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 4°04′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 11°52′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius or Scorpio during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 20°26′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 3°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Mel’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Mel’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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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
Computed from January 3, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42229 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is Mel Gibson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
