Melissa Leo
Melissa Leo (born September 14, 1960, Manhattan, United States), aged 66, is an American actress. Leo's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.
Melissa Leo’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rat, with 
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Melissa Leo’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, 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
3 · 2
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Melissa, according to the stars
Core essence
Melissa notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Melissa is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Melissa is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Melissa needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Melissa wants to be loved
Melissa wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Melissa gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Melissa creates
How Melissa makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Melissa creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Melissa is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Melissa is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Melissa scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Melissa's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Melissa sits
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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 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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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.
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Melissa Leo's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 14, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Melissa Leo was born on September 14, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Melissa Leo's birth date, September 14, 1960, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Melissa’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Melissa Leo's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Melissa Leo combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Melissa’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Melissa Leo, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Cancer 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.
stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.0° to 7.0° orb
Melissa’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
Melissa’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° orb
Melissa’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.6° to 2.0° orb
Melissa’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.1° to 3.4° orb
Melissa’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareJupiter2.5° to 3.4° orb
Melissa’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMarssextileUranus3.0° to 3.5° orb
Melissa’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareMars4.5° to 4.9° orb
Melissa’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.6° orb
Melissa’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.4° orb
Melissa’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 28°44′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Melissa making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 16°16′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Melissa is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosCancer 1°18′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Melissa is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaLibra 0°39′ (moves 0.40° 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 LilithCancer 14°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Melissa guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.2°
- Ceres trine Venus 1.7°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.6°
- Eros square Mercury 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 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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Melissa is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 onto Sun · Mars, Jupiter, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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-square Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Melissa Leo, 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 September 14, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Melissa Leo, 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 Q229410, 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 sagindie from Hollywood, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Melissa Leo at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Leo.
Quick answers about Melissa Leo’s chart
- How old is Melissa Leo?
- Melissa Leo is 66 years old, born September 14, 1960 in Manhattan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Melissa Leo?
- Melissa Leo is a Virgo: born September 14, 1960, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat.
- What is Melissa Leo's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 14, 1960 birth.
- What time was Melissa Leo 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 Leo's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 14, 1960 birth date.
- What is Melissa Leo's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 14, 1960 birth date.
- Where is Melissa Leo's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Melissa Leo's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
