Melissa Fumero
Melissa Fumero (born Melissa Gallo; August 19, 1982, Lyndhurst, United States), aged 44, is an American actress. Notable films include Brooklyn Nine-Nine, One Life to Live and Blockbuster.
Melissa Fumero’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Melissa
Melissa Fumero’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
In 1982, 25,864 American girls and 109 boys were registered Melissa — 5th among girls and 851st among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Melissa’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Melissa Gallo, not the name they published under.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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
Melissa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1982, 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 Melissa apart
Study took Melissa Fumero to New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Lyndhurst High School.
Melissa Fumero was 22 when the work began in 2004.
The family line: married David Fumero.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Guttenberg, New Jersey, Lyndhurst High School alumni and Actresses from Hudson County, New Jersey.
Bill Clinton (1946) and Coco Chanel (1883) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Lyndhurst High School
- Nominated for
- Imagen Awards
- Working from
- 2004
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- Spanish and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 35
What the chart says
Melissa, according to the stars
Core essence
Melissa is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Melissa 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 Melissa wants to be loved
Melissa wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Melissa openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Melissa creates
How Melissa makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Melissa builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Melissa is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Melissa 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Melissa runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Melissa's birth date. Working below.
Where Melissa sits
Six lines
Melissa’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Melissa Fumero
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lyndhurst 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 Lyndhurst that night
Computed for 40.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Lyndhurst at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 8.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Lyndhurst sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
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 Lyndhurst on any night.
Sun 13° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Melissa Gallo
- Known as
- Melissa Fumero
- Born in
- Lyndhurst, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Melissa Fumero: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Melissa's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · 1 planet 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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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Melissa Fumero's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 19, 1982, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Dog
Water DogWorries so you don't have to.
Melissa Fumero was born on August 19, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Melissa Fumero's birth date, August 19, 1982, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Melissa’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Melissa Fumero's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Melissa Fumero combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Melissa’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Leo or Virgo 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb
Melissa’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextilePluto1.2° to 2.1° orb
Melissa’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineNeptune1.5° to 2.5° orb
Melissa’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareJupiter1.5° to 2.6° orb
stableVenussquareMars2.9° to 3.5° orb
stableSunsquareUranus3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter5.0° to 5.5° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.1° to 6.3° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune5.4° to 6.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.2° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Melissa’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 27°38′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 20°05′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 5°59′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 4°59′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 6°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Venus 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Chiron square Sun 1.3°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 3.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 3.0°
Melissa’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Melissa’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.
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.1°
- Sun quintile Mars 1.3°
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on August 19
- Bill Clinton1946
- Coco Chanel1883
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Other Leo Dog charts
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Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
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Famous people with Life Path 11
- Chrishell StauseAmerican actress (born 1981)
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- Dwyane WadeAmerican basketball player (born 1982)
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Melissa’s cards
Computed from August 19, 1982. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
11 · Visionary☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Melissa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6812701 (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 Adweek, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Melissa Fumero.
Quick answers about Melissa Fumero’s chart
- How old is Melissa Fumero?
- Melissa Fumero is 44 years old, born August 19, 1982 in Lyndhurst, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Melissa Fumero?
- Melissa Fumero is a Leo: born August 19, 1982, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Melissa Fumero's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 19, 1982 birth.
- What is Melissa Fumero's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Melissa Fumero's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Melissa Fumero's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Melissa Fumero's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
