Melissa Benoist
Melissa Benoist (born October 4, 1988, Houston, United States), aged 38, is an American actress and singer. Benoist is best known for Supergirl, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and Glee.
Melissa Benoist’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Dragon, with 
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Melissa Benoist’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Melissa in the U.S.?
#420
US rank in 2025
~762,623
Americans share it since 1880
1979
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Melissa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Melissa apart
Susan Sarandon (1946) and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Melissa, according to the stars
Core essence
Melissa makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Melissa is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Melissa creates
How Melissa makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Melissa creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Melissa 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Melissa 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means Melissa 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 Melissa's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Melissa sits
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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Melissa Benoist's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 4, 1988, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Dragon
Earth DragonBorn for the big room.
Melissa Benoist was born on October 4, 1988, which falls in a Earth 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 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Melissa Benoist's birth date, October 4, 1988, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Melissa’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Melissa Benoist's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Melissa Benoist combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Melissa’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Melissa Benoist, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus0.5° orb
Melissa’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.6° to 2.4° orb
Melissa’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.1° to 2.8° orb
Melissa’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineUranus2.2° to 3.3° orb
Melissa’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.5° to 2.7° orb
Melissa’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.7° to 3.8° orb
Melissa’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareNeptune3.7° to 4.7° orb
Melissa’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
Melissa’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareNeptune4.0° to 4.3° orb
Melissa’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineJupiter5.2° to 6.2° orb
Melissa’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableVenussquareJupiter5.2° to 6.4° orb
Melissa’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarssquareUranus5.8° to 6.1° orb
Melissa’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Melissa’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.
⚷ ChironCancer 7°05′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Melissa is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 20°46′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Melissa is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ Eros ℞Aries 28°09′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Melissa is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaLibra 18°12′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Melissa is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 15°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Melissa exacting with themselves first.
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 Neptune 0.4°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.7°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.2°
- Eros trine Venus 2.0°
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°).
Melissa’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. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Melissa 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 Melissa’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-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Melissa Benoist, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Fellow Libra suns
- Anthony Shadidforeign correspondent for The New York Times
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- Cristina Rivera GarzaMexican writer and professor
Born in Dragon years
- Ivor PandurCroatian association football player
- Maxim De CuyperBelgian association football player (born 2000)
- Samú CostaPortuguese footballer (born 2000)
Also born on October 4
- Susan Sarandon1946
- Vitaly Ginzburg1916
- Christoph Waltz1956
- Dakota Johnson1989
- Alicia Silverstone1976
- Liev Schreiber1967
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- ImanbekKazakh record producer
- Gabby BarrettAmerican country singer
- Beatrice ChebetKenyan long-distance runner born 2000
Other Libra Dragon charts
- Anthony DawsonBritish actor
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- Klas Pontus ArnoldsonSwedish politician
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Other Tidal Pioneers
- WooziSouth Korean singer
- MiyeonSouth Korean singer; member of i-dle
- Zeke NnajiAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Asa NewellAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Peter WattsCanadian biologist and sci-fi author
- Robert ReedHugo Award-winning American science fiction author (born 1956)
- Becky ChambersAmerican author
From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Melissa’s cards
Every card is computed from October 4, 1988, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Melissa Benoist, 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
Melissa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q46677, 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 Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Melissa Benoist at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
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 Melissa Benoist.
Quick answers about Melissa Benoist’s chart
- How old is Melissa Benoist?
- Melissa Benoist is 38 years old, born October 4, 1988 in Houston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Melissa Benoist?
- Melissa Benoist is a Libra: born October 4, 1988, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dragon.
- What is Melissa Benoist's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 4, 1988 birth.
- What time was Melissa Benoist 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.
- How tall is Melissa Benoist?
- Melissa Benoist is 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Melissa Benoist's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the October 4, 1988 birth date.
- What is Melissa Benoist's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 4, 1988 birth date.
- Where is Melissa Benoist's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Melissa Benoist's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
