Melinda Wagner
Melinda Wagner (born February 25, 1957, Philadelphia, United States), aged 69, is an American composer. Wagner's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Melinda Wagner’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Melinda
Melinda Wagner’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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
In 1957, 2,828 American girls were registered Melinda — 146th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Melinda’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on M (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Melinda’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Rose-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 Melinda apart
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1988, when Melinda Wagner was 31.
Study took Melinda Wagner to Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts and Hamilton College.
On Wikipedia the categories read Syracuse University faculty, Composers from Pennsylvania and Classical musicians from New Jersey.
George Harrison (1943) and Néstor Kirchner (1950) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts and Hamilton College
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1988) and Pulitzer Prize for Music (1999)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
What the chart says
Melinda, according to the stars
Core essence
Melinda feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Melinda is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Melinda 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 Melinda needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Melinda wants to be loved
Melinda wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Melinda be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Melinda creates
How Melinda makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Melinda creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Melinda 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 4 is the builder. Melinda is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Melinda is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Melinda's birth date. Working below.
Where Melinda sits
Six lines
Melinda’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Melinda Wagner
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Philadelphia at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 8.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Philadelphia sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 11% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 37° below the horizon.
How unusual Melinda's chart is
Chart pattern score
11 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Melinda Wagner's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 25, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Melinda Wagner was born on February 25, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Melinda Wagner's birth date, February 25, 1957, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Melinda’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Melinda Wagner's date-only chart is Uranus square Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Melinda Wagner combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
Melinda’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° 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
stableMercurysquareMars1.2° to 2.1° orb
Melinda’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquareNeptune1.2° orb
Melinda’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
Melinda’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.6° to 4.8° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus4.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.7° to 6.0° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.7° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 2.8° to 14.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 4.0° to 15.9° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileSaturnorb from 4.5° to 6.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Melinda’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 13°50′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 26°26′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 10°58′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 6°38′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 19°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.9°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.6°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.6°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.8°
Melinda’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Melinda’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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Sun quintile Mars 1.5°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.5°
More people like Melinda
Other composers
- L.A. Reid1956
- Sade Adu1959
- Jermaine Jackson1954
- Khaled1960
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- Andrea Bocelli1958
Born in United States
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- Percival EverettAmerican writer
- Kenneth R. WeissAmerican journalist
- Ramona SingerAmerican socialite and television personality
- Mykelti WilliamsonAmerican actor and director
More charts like Melinda’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Warren Zaïre-EmeryFrench footballer
- Mark KellyAmerican politician, astronaut, and naval officer
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Born in Rooster years
- Mona SinghIndian actress
- Omi VaidyaIndian actor
- Soledad VillamilArgentine actress and singer
Also born on February 25
- George Harrison1943
- Néstor Kirchner1950
- Rashida Jones1976
- Jameela Jamil1986
- Birgit Fischer1962
- Chelsea Handler1975
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Mel OwensAmerican football player
- Audrina PatridgeAmerican reality television star
- Ben PlattAmerican actor and singer (born 1993)
Other Pisces Rooster charts
- Jean HeatherAmerican actress
- Danis TanovićBosnian film director and politician
- Penelope LivelyBritish novelist (born 1933)
- George F. SmootAmerican astrophysicist and cosmologist
Other Steadfast Explorers
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- Vederian LoweAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Jake BrendelAmerican football player
- Cameron JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Droupadi MurmuPresident of India since 2026
- C. P. RadhakrishnanVice President of India since 2025
- Jessica PegulaUS American tennis player
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Melinda’s cards
Computed from February 25, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Melinda’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4347915 (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 Melinda Wagner at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Melinda Wagner.
Quick answers about Melinda Wagner’s chart
- How old is Melinda Wagner?
- Melinda Wagner is 69 years old, born February 25, 1957 in Philadelphia, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Melinda Wagner?
- Melinda Wagner is a Pisces: born February 25, 1957, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Melinda Wagner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 25, 1957 birth.
- What is Melinda Wagner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Melinda Wagner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Melinda Wagner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Melinda Wagner's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
