Melanie Griffith
Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957, Manhattan, United States), aged 69, is an American actress. Griffith's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe Ambassador and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress.
Melanie Griffith’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Melanie
Melanie Griffith’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Melanie in the U.S.?
#142
US rank in 2025
~263,254
Americans share it since 1886
1972
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,474 American girls and 6 boys named Melanie in 1957: 152nd among girls and 3,829th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Melanie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
11
Soul Urge · insight
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Melanie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1957, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Melanie apart
The Golden Globe Ambassador came in 1975, when Melanie Griffith was 18.
Study took Melanie Griffith to Hollywood Professional School and Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
Melanie Griffith was 12 when the work began in 1969.
On the family side, Melanie Griffith was born to Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith, married Antonio Banderas and Don Johnson and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files Melanie Griffith under People from Hancock Park, Los Angeles, Johnson family (show business) and Stella Adler Studio of Acting alumni.
Whitney Houston (1963) and Gillian Anderson (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Hollywood Professional School, Stella Adler Studio of Acting and St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church and School
- Awards
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress (1992), Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress (1996) and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy (1988)
- Nominated for
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress
- Working from
- 1969
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 72
What the chart says
Melanie, according to the stars
Core essence
Melanie is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Melanie is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Melanie 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 Melanie 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 Melanie wants to be loved
Melanie wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Melanie and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Melanie creates
How Melanie makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Melanie creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Melanie 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 3 is the creative. Melanie is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Melanie 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 Melanie's birth date. Working below.
Where Melanie sits
Six lines
Melanie’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Melanie Griffith
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 11.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Manhattan on any night.
Sun 10° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
How unusual Melanie's chart is
Chart pattern score
70 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet · 4 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 →Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Melanie Griffith's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 9, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Melanie Griffith was born on August 9, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Melanie Griffith's birth date, August 9, 1957, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Melanie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Melanie Griffith's date-only chart is Saturn trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Melanie Griffith combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Melanie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° 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
stableMoonoppositionUranus0.1° to 6.9° orb
Melanie’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.2° orb
Melanie’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb
Melanie’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.6° to 1.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.9° to 1.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.6° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 6.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.6° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 1.0° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 4.2° to 15.3° depending on birth time
possibleMarssquareSaturnorb from 6.5° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Melanie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 14°42′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 2°11′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 4°12′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 20°16′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 8°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.3°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Sun 2.1°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 2.5°
Melanie’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Uranus, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Melanie’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Uranus, 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.
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
- Sun quintile Neptune 1.3°
Melanie’s family here
5 relatives of Melanie Griffith also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on August 9
- Whitney Houston1963
- Gillian Anderson1968
- John Key1961
- Eric Bana1968
- Willian1988
- Mário Zagallo1931
Fellow Yin Water day masters
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- Joaquín PiquerezUruguayan association football player
- Yvon MvogoSwiss association football player
Other Leo Rooster charts
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- Andre DrummondAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
Other Tidal Guardians
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- LizzoAmerican singer and rapper
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Famous people with Life Path 3
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From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Melanie’s cards
Computed from August 9, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Melanie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q176455 (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 Pamela Price, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Melanie Griffith at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Melanie Griffith.
Quick answers about Melanie Griffith’s chart
- How old is Melanie Griffith?
- Melanie Griffith is 69 years old, born August 9, 1957 in Manhattan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Melanie Griffith?
- Melanie Griffith is a Leo: born August 9, 1957, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Melanie Griffith's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 9, 1957 birth.
- What is Melanie Griffith's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Melanie Griffith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Melanie Griffith's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Melanie Griffith's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Uranus, Pluto). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
