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Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin

Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin (born July 30, 1981, Montreal, Canada), aged 45, is a French Canadian actress.

Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin’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.

What Mélissa’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

8

Soul Urge · achievement

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on M (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Mélissa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Ruby, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Camellia

Sky blue · Gold · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1981, 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 Mélissa apart

The working life starts in 1989, at 8.

Wikipedia's editors put Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin under Canadian stage actresses, Best Supporting Actress Jutra and Iris Award winners and Actresses from Montreal.

Henry Ford (1863) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Working from
1989
Citizenship
Canada
Languages
Canadian French
Wikipedia editions
12

What the chart says

Mélissa, according to the stars

Core essence

Mélissa is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Mélissa 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 Mélissa wants to be loved

Mélissa wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Mélissa and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Mélissa creates

How Mélissa 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. Mélissa 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: Mélissa 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Mélissa 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Mélissa 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 Mélissa's birth date. Working below.

Where Mélissa sits

Six lines

Mélissa’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Mélissa

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Mélissa

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

PrivateExpressive
Mélissa

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Mélissa

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

PracticalVisionary
Mélissa

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Mélissa

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Montreal 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 Montreal that night

Computed for 45.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Montreal was Rastaban, in Draco, 79.3° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.

Montreal sits at 45.5°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −44.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.

How unusual Mélissa's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A bowl chart

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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Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin at a glance

Leo Sun

Loves an audience. Earns one.

Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 30, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Metal Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin was born on July 30, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 11

Receives more than it reasons.

Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin's birth date, July 30, 1981, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Mélissa’s chart

Mélissa’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.3° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.9° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.5° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.9° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.3° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.8° orbSun in Leo · 7°23′☉7°Moon in Leo · 0°58′☽0°Mercury in Cancer · 25°46′☿25°Venus in Virgo · 7°20′♀7°Mars in Cancer · 8°15′♂8°Jupiter in Libra · 5°54′♃5°Saturn in Libra · 5°27′♄5°Uranus in Scorpio · 26°04′ · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Sagittarius · 22°24′ · retrograde♆℞22°Pluto in Libra · 21°46′♇21°

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

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

  • stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.3° orb

    Mélissa’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.4° to 0.5° orb

    Mélissa’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussextileMars0.6° to 1.2° orb

    Mélissa’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter1.1° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn1.5° to 2.4° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter2.1° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn2.5° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto3.0° to 5.0° orb

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Mélissa’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 22°28′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 1°14′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 1°17′ (moves 0.48° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 12°08′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 23°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.3°

Mélissa’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Mélissa’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 0.0°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.0°
  • Venus semi-square Pluto 0.6°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°

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Mélissa’s cards

Computed from July 30, 1981. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

11 · Visionary

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Mélissa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2384494 (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 Montreal.TV, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin.

Quick answers about Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin’s chart

How old is Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin?
Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin is 45 years old, born July 30, 1981 in Montreal, Canada.
What zodiac sign is Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin?
Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin is a Leo: born July 30, 1981, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 30, 1981 birth.
What is Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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