Mel Powell
Mel Powell (born February 12, 1923, The Bronx, United States; died 1998), was an American composer. Powell's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Arts and Letters Award in Music.
Mel Powell’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Mel
Mel Powell’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, 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 13 American boys named Mel in 1923: 2,407th 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.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against 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
11 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1923, 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 Arts and Letters Award in Music came in 1963, when Mel Powell was 40.
Study took Mel Powell to DeWitt Clinton High School and Yale University.
Mel Powell was 16 when the work began in 1939.
On the family side, Mel Powell was married Martha Scott.
Wikipedia files Mel Powell under Pupils of Ernst Toch, Swing pianists and Jazz musicians from New York (state).
Alan Dugan shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- DeWitt Clinton High School and Yale University
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- Arts and Letters Award in Music (1963) and Pulitzer Prize for Music (1990)
- Working from
- 1939
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Mel, according to the stars
Core essence
Mel is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Mel is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Mel is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Mel needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Mel wants to be loved
Mel wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Mel you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Mel creates
How Mel makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Mel creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Mel is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Mel is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 Powell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx 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 The Bronx that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 8.2° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
The Bronx sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from The Bronx on any night.
The Moon, 8% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- The Bronx, United States
The death is recorded at Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles in 1998.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Mel Powell: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Mel's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet 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.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Mel Powell's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 12, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Mel Powell was born on February 12, 1923, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Mel Powell's birth date, February 12, 1923, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Mel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mel Powell's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Mel Powell combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Mel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Capricorn 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
stableMoonsquareMars0.0° to 6.9° orb
Mel’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.1° to 0.8° orb
Mel’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb
Mel’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableUranustrinePluto3.0° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.4° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.8° to 6.9° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Mel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 14°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 16°58′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 8°57′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 7°39′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 14°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mars 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.7°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 2.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.6°
- Ceres square Saturn 3.0°
Mel’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Mel’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Neptune, JupiterAn 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.
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 2.1°
Born the same day as Mel
Alan Dugan was born on February 12, 1923 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.8°N, the sky above The Bronx stops at −49.2° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Mel
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- Charles Singleton1913
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Mel’s cards
Computed from February 12, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
11 · Visionary♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q743673 (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.
The same Mel Powell 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 Powell.
Quick answers about Mel Powell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mel Powell?
- Mel Powell was an Aquarius: born February 12, 1923, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Mel Powell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 12, 1923 birth.
- What was Mel Powell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Mel Powell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Mel Powell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mel Powell's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
