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Melanie Martinez

Melanie Martinez (born April 28, 1995, Astoria, United States), aged 31, is a Mexican-American singer-songwriter. Martinez is best known for K-12, Portals and Cry baby.

Melanie Martinez’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Melanie Martinez’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, 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 1886

1972

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1995, Melanie came 117th among girls and 5,771st among boys, carried by 2,646 American girls and 10 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Melanie’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

8

Soul Urge · achievement

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

11 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

White · Blush · Forest

The record

What sets Melanie apart

What keeps Melanie Martinez in print: Portals, Cry baby and K-12.

Training came by way of Baldwin Senior High School.

Penélope Cruz (1974) and Kurt Gödel (1906) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Portals, Cry baby and K-12
Educated at
Baldwin Senior High School
Instruments
guitar and voice
Working from
2000
Wikipedia editions
55

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 make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Melanie 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: Melanie is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Melanie 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Melanie fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Melanie

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Melanie

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Melanie

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Melanie

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Melanie

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Melanie

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Melanie Martinez

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Astoria on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Melanie’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 88.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 37.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Astoria that night

Computed for 40.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Astoria at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 1.7° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

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 Astoria on any night.

Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.

How unusual Melanie's chart is

Chart pattern score

36 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · 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.

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Melanie Martinez at a glance

Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Melanie Martinez's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 28, 1995, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Wood Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Melanie Martinez was born on April 28, 1995, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 11

Bright signal, thin skin.

Melanie Martinez's birth date, April 28, 1995, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Melanie’s chart

Melanie’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.4° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.5° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 3.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.3° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.4° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.5° orbSun in Taurus · 7°54′☉7°Moon in Aries · 26°00′☽25°Mercury in Taurus · 23°06′☿23°Venus in Aries · 7°51′♀7°Mars in Leo · 19°25′♂19°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 14°16′ · retrograde♃℞14°Saturn in Pisces · 21°08′♄21°Uranus in Aquarius · 0°27′♅0°Neptune in Capricorn · 25°33′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Scorpio · 29°49′ · retrograde♇℞29°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonsquareNeptune0.1° to 6.5° orb

    Melanie’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableUranussextilePluto0.6° orb

    Melanie’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn1.1° to 2.8° orb

    Melanie’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune1.5° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars2.9° to 4.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter4.9° to 5.3° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune4.9° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.8° to 7.7° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn6.8° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 20°21′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 11°31′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosPisces 4°15′ (moves 0.50° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 3°42′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 12°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Saturn 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 1.3°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 2.7°
  • Ceres trine Jupiter 2.7°

Melanie’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Melanie’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Venus quintile Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.4°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.2°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 1.7°
  • Sun semi-square Saturn 1.8°

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Melanie’s cards

Computed from April 28, 1995. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Melanie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16211162 (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 Unknown, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Melanie Martinez at Wikipedia, melaniemartinezmusic.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube 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 Martinez.

Quick answers about Melanie Martinez’s chart

How old is Melanie Martinez?
Melanie Martinez is 31 years old, born April 28, 1995 in Astoria, United States.
What zodiac sign is Melanie Martinez?
Melanie Martinez is a Taurus: born April 28, 1995, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Melanie Martinez's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 28, 1995 birth.
What is Melanie Martinez's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Melanie Martinez's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Melanie Martinez's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Melanie Martinez's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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