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Melinda Gates

Melinda Gates (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964, Dallas, United States), aged 62, is an American philanthropist. Gates has served as project manager. Gates's honours include Jefferson Awards for Public Service, J. William Fulbright Prize and NAS Public Welfare Medal.

Melinda Gates’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Melinda Gates’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Melinda in the U.S.?

#1985

US rank in 2025

~136,159

Americans share it since 1880

1970

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Melinda’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 6

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern

Coral · Gold · Forest

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Melinda, according to the stars

Core essence

Melinda is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Melinda 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.

How Melinda wants to be loved

Melinda wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Melinda gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Melinda creates

How Melinda 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. Melinda 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: Melinda is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Melinda 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Melinda does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Melinda's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Melinda sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Melinda

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Melinda

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Melinda

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Melinda

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Melinda

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Melinda

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Melinda Gates

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

Melinda’s birth-night reference starKornephorosyellow · HerculesKornephoros, in Hercules. A yellow star, 75.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Kornephoros →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 30° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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.

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Melinda Gates's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 15, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Wood Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Melinda Gates was born on August 15, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Melinda Gates's birth date, August 15, 1964, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in Melinda’s chart

Melinda’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Melinda Gates, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.3° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.4° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.1° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.7° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.2° orbSun in Leo · 22°52′☉22°Moon in Scorpio · 29°08′☽29°Mercury in Virgo · 17°18′☿17°Venus in Cancer · 7°53′♀7°Mars in Cancer · 10°34′♂10°Jupiter in Taurus · 24°40′♃24°Saturn in Pisces · 2°21′ · retrograde♄℞2°Uranus in Virgo · 9°19′♅9°Neptune in Scorpio · 15°09′♆15°Pluto in Virgo · 13°14′♇13°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableVenussextileUranus1.0° to 1.8° orb

    Melinda’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMarssextileUranus1.0° to 1.6° orb

    Melinda’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter1.4° to 2.2° orb

    Melinda’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb

    Melinda’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune2.0° to 2.3° orb

    Melinda’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableMarssextilePluto2.3° to 3.0° orb

    Melinda’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars2.6° to 2.8° orb

    Melinda’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto3.9° to 4.2° orb

    Melinda’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.9° orb

    Melinda’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune4.3° to 4.9° orb

    Melinda’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn5.1° to 6.0° orb

    Melinda’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus6.9° to 7.0° orb

    Melinda’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Melinda’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 17°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Melinda absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 23°11′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Melinda is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 2°40′ (moves 0.90° over the day)

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

    Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Melinda is read as slow to start and exact once started.

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 3°58′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Melinda is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Melinda leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

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.

  • Chiron opposition Mercury 0.2°
  • Ceres trine Sun 0.3°
  • Eros opposition Saturn 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.9°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 1.6°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.4°

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°).

Melinda’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. 1. ☉ Sun6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Melinda is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 Melinda’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.9°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Melinda Gates, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Melinda’s family here

One relative of Melinda Gates also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Melinda’s cards

Every card is computed from August 15, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Melinda Gates, 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

Melinda’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q463877, 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 World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Melinda Gates at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and YouTube.

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 Melinda Gates.

Quick answers about Melinda Gates’s chart

How old is Melinda Gates?
Melinda Gates is 62 years old, born August 15, 1964 in Dallas, United States.
What zodiac sign is Melinda Gates?
Melinda Gates is a Leo: born August 15, 1964, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
What is Melinda Gates's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 15, 1964 birth.
What time was Melinda Gates 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 Melinda Gates's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 15, 1964 birth date.
What is Melinda Gates's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 15, 1964 birth date.
Where is Melinda Gates's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Melinda Gates's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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