Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Gilbert (born May 8, 1964, Los Angeles, United States, 11:51), aged 62, is an American actress. Gilbert has served as President of SAG. Gilbert's honours include Theatre World Award and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Melissa Gilbert’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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Melissa Gilbert’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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
6 · 1 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Melissa apart
Enrique Iglesias (1975) and David Attenborough (1926) 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 is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Melissa is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Melissa runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Melissa needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Melissa wants to be loved
Melissa wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Melissa like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Melissa creates
How Melissa makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Melissa creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Melissa is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Melissa 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 Melissa's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Melissa Gilbert's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Melissa Gilbert was born on May 8, 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 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Melissa Gilbert's birth date, May 8, 1964, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Melissa’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Melissa Gilbert's timed chart: Sun in the 10th house, Mercury in the 10th house, Mars in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 10th house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Melissa Gilbert's timed chart is Jupiter trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Melissa Gilbert combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Melissa’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
JupitertrineUranusseparating · 0.4° orb
Melissa’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 0.8° orb
Melissa’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenussextileMarsseparating · 1.1° orb
Melissa’s affections open doors for their drive.
SunoppositionNeptuneseparating · 1.8° orb
Melissa’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MercurysextileVenusapplying · 1.9° orb
Melissa’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SaturnoppositionUranusapplying · 2.0° orb
Melissa’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
MercurysextileSaturnseparating · 2.3° orb
Melissa’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
JupitersextileSaturnseparating · 2.4° orb
Melissa’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarssextileSaturnapplying · 3.0° orb
Melissa’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
VenustrineSaturnapplying · 4.1° orb
Melissa’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercurytrineUranusseparating · 4.3° orb
Melissa’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercuryconjunctionJupiterseparating · 4.7° orb
Melissa’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.8° orb
Melissa’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarstrineUranusapplying · 5.0° orb
Melissa’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
JupitertrinePlutoapplying · 5.3° orb
Melissa’s growth flows straight into their depths.
MarsconjunctionJupiterapplying · 5.5° orb
Melissa’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
UranusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 5.7° orb
Melissa’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MoonsquareVenusseparating · 5.8° orb
Melissa’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SuntrinePlutoseparating · 6.5° orb
Melissa’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SaturnoppositionPlutoapplying · 7.7° orb
Melissa’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.
⚷ ChironPisces 17°57′ · House 8
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 Melissa absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 6°56′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Melissa caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosGemini 3°11′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Melissa is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaGemini 2°54′ · House 11
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Melissa needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 12°48′ · House 5
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 Melissa leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.2°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.6°
- Eros square Saturn 0.7°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.0°
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.2°
- Ceres square Moon 1.3°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Ascendant 1.8°
- Eros sextile Moon 2.4°
- Eros square Uranus 2.7°
- Hygiea sextile Moon 2.7°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars11 pts
rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Moon; angular in the tenth house; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury10 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 5 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.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Mars, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Moon quincunx Uranus 0.3°
- Moon semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Moon semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
Melissa’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Sun in Taurus, house 10 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Virgo | Mercury in Taurus, house 10 | Uranus, Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Libra | Venus in Gemini, house 11 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 2 | Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Taurus, house 10 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Capricorn | Saturn in Pisces, house 8 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 2 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 4 | Saturn | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aries | Mars in Taurus, house 10 | Moon | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Taurus | Venus in Gemini, house 11 | Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Gemini | Mercury in Taurus, house 10 | Venus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Cancer | Moon in Aries, house 9 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Melissa’s cards
Every card is computed from May 8, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Melissa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230929, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Bob Bekian from Thousand Oaks Ca., USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Melissa Gilbert at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
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.
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Quick answers about Melissa Gilbert’s chart
- How old is Melissa Gilbert?
- Melissa Gilbert is 62 years old, born May 8, 1964 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Melissa Gilbert?
- Melissa Gilbert is a Taurus: born May 8, 1964, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
- What is Melissa Gilbert's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 8, 1964 birth.
- What time was Melissa Gilbert born?
- 11:51 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Melissa Gilbert's rising sign?
- Leo rising, calculated from the documented 11:51 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Melissa Gilbert's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the May 8, 1964 birth date.
- What is Melissa Gilbert's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 8, 1964 birth time.
- Where is Melissa Gilbert's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 12°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Melissa Gilbert's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
