Melanie Lynskey
Melanie Lynskey (born May 16, 1977, New Plymouth, New Zealand), aged 49, is a New Zealand actress (born 1977).
Melanie Lynskey’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Snake, with 
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Melanie Lynskey’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Melanie in the U.S.?
#142
US rank in 2025
~263,254
Americans share it since 1880
1972
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Melanie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Melanie apart
Pierce Brosnan (1953) and Janet Jackson (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Melanie, according to the stars
Core essence
Melanie is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Melanie is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Melanie wants to be loved
Melanie wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Melanie is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Melanie 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 Melanie's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Melanie sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Plymouth on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Melanie Lynskey's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 16, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Melanie Lynskey was born on May 16, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Melanie Lynskey's birth date, May 16, 1977, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Melanie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Melanie Lynskey's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Melanie Lynskey combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Melanie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Melanie Lynskey, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.0° to 0.1° orb
Melanie’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Melanie’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.8° to 1.6° orb
Melanie’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.9° to 1.5° orb
Melanie’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.8° to 2.0° orb
Melanie’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionPluto1.9° to 2.7° orb
Melanie’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
Melanie’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.0° to 2.6° orb
Melanie’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitertrinePluto2.5° to 2.7° orb
Melanie’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarstrineSaturn2.7° to 3.4° orb
Melanie’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.8° to 3.3° orb
Melanie’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° orb
Melanie’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Melanie’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 2°55′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Melanie building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresVirgo 27°33′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Melanie caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 13°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Melanie is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 9°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Melanie is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Melanie that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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 Venus 0.2°
- Eros square Mars 0.2°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.0°
- Eros square Pluto 2.1°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.5°
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°).
Melanie’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. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars7 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn7 pts
7 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Melanie is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Melanie’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.
Kite · Venus, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Mars, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Uranus, SaturnAn 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 quincunx Uranus 0.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Melanie Lynskey, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Melanie’s family here
One relative of Melanie Lynskey also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Melanie
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Born in New Zealand
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- Chris WoodNew Zealand association football player
- Wynton RuferNew Zealand association football player
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More charts like Melanie’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Jake BongioviAmerican actor
- David BoreanazAmerican actor
- Bonnie BlueBritish pornographic actress
Born in Snake years
- Sonia BergamascoItalian actress
- Fikret KuşkanTurkish actor (born 1965)
- Jacques PerrinFrench actor and film producer
Also born on May 16
- Pierce Brosnan1953
- Janet Jackson1966
- Tucker Carlson1969
- Behati Prinsloo1988
- Megan Fox1986
- IU1993
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Marsha NormanAmerican playwright, screenwriter and novelist
- Steven MillhauserAmerican novelist and short story writer
- Sidney HowardAmerican playwright
Other Taurus Snake charts
- Joseph CottenAmerican actor
- Henry FondaAmerican actor
- James DonaldBritish actor
- Celeste HolmAmerican actress
Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- Millicent SimmondsAmerican actress
- Tunisha SharmaIndian actress
- Riele DownsCanadian actress
- Marshawn KneelandAmerican football player
Famous people with Life Path 9
- E. B. WhiteAmerican author
- John CheeverAmerican novelist and short story writer
- Jerry BockAmerican theatre composer
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Melanie’s cards
Every card is computed from May 16, 1977, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Melanie Lynskey, 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
Melanie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235905, 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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Melanie Lynskey at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
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 Melanie Lynskey.
Quick answers about Melanie Lynskey’s chart
- How old is Melanie Lynskey?
- Melanie Lynskey is 49 years old, born May 16, 1977 in New Plymouth, New Zealand.
- What zodiac sign is Melanie Lynskey?
- Melanie Lynskey is a Taurus: born May 16, 1977, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
- What is Melanie Lynskey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 16, 1977 birth.
- What time was Melanie Lynskey 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.
- What is Melanie Lynskey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 16, 1977 birth date.
- What is Melanie Lynskey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 16, 1977 birth date.
- Where is Melanie Lynskey's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Melanie Lynskey's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
