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Melissa Joan Hart

Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976, Smithtown, United States), aged 50, is an American actress.

Melissa Joan Hart’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Melissa Joan Hart’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, 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

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

9 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy

White · Crimson · Flame orange

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Melissa apart

Conan O'Brien (1963) and Haile Gebrselassie (1973) 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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Melissa is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Melissa wants to be loved

Melissa wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Melissa creates

How Melissa makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Melissa creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Melissa is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Melissa 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 Melissa's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Melissa sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Melissa

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Melissa

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Melissa

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Melissa

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

PracticalVisionary
Melissa

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Melissa

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Melissa Joan Hart

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Smithtown on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Melissa’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 83.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 30.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Melissa Joan Hart in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

First through every door.

Melissa Joan Hart's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 18, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

Fire Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Melissa Joan Hart was born on April 18, 1976, which falls in a Fire 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 9

Wide view, open hands.

Melissa Joan Hart's birth date, April 18, 1976, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Melissa’s chart

Melissa’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Melissa Joan Hart, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.1° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.7° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.9° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 2.1° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.3° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 2.3° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.8° orbSun in Aries · 28°47′☉28°Moon in Sagittarius · 26°42′☽26°Mercury in Taurus · 15°44′☿15°Venus in Aries · 12°44′♀12°Mars in Cancer · 15°01′♂15°Jupiter in Taurus · 5°29′♃5°Saturn in Cancer · 26°28′♄26°Uranus in Scorpio · 5°24′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Sagittarius · 13°40′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Libra · 9°50′ · retrograde♇℞9°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.0° to 0.2° orb

    Melissa’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.1° to 1.3° orb

    Melissa’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune0.3° to 1.6° orb

    Melissa’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn1.8° to 2.8° orb

    Melissa’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussquareMars1.9° to 2.7° orb

    Melissa’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto2.3° to 3.5° orb

    Melissa’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb

    Melissa’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssquarePluto4.9° to 5.5° orb

    Melissa’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus6.1° to 7.1° orb

    Melissa’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.3° to 7.1° orb

    Melissa’s core identity and growth act as one.

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.8° to 15.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 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.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 27°44′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Melissa may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 21°51′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Melissa feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosAries 6°13′ (moves 0.66° 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.

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 4°17′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Melissa is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 18°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Melissa carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

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 conjunction Sun 1.0°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Chiron square Saturn 1.3°

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. 1. ♂ Mars8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Melissa is read as acting first and reflecting after.

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.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Venus, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Neptune · Mercury, Mars, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
  • Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.1°
  • Mercury quintile Saturn 1.3°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 1.4°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 1.4°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.1°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Melissa Joan Hart, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Melissa’s cards

Every card is computed from April 18, 1976, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Melissa Joan Hart, 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 Q429777, 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 https://www.flickr.com/photos/greg2600/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Melissa Joan Hart 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.

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Quick answers about Melissa Joan Hart’s chart

How old is Melissa Joan Hart?
Melissa Joan Hart is 50 years old, born April 18, 1976 in Smithtown, United States.
What zodiac sign is Melissa Joan Hart?
Melissa Joan Hart is an Aries: born April 18, 1976, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon.
What is Melissa Joan Hart's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 18, 1976 birth.
What time was Melissa Joan Hart 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.
What is Melissa Joan Hart's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 18, 1976 birth date.
What is Melissa Joan Hart's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 18, 1976 birth date.
Where is Melissa Joan Hart's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Melissa Joan Hart's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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