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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Melissa
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
The SSA recorded 4,412 American girls and 9 boys named Melissa in 1960: 109th among girls and 3,009th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Melissa’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
Melissa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Melissa apart
Leo XIV (1955) and Sam Neill (1947) 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 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. 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 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.
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 Leo
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 4.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Manhattan at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 31% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 21° below the horizon.
How unusual Melissa's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Venus · A leaning bowl
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Cancer 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
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
stableVenussquareSaturn2.1° to 3.4° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssextileUranus3.0° to 3.5° orb
stableSunsquareMars4.5° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.6° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 28°44′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 16°16′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 1°18′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 0°39′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°24′ (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 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°
Melissa’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Melissa’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
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Famous people with Life Path 3
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From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Melissa’s cards
Computed from September 14, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Melissa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229410 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Melissa Leo's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Melissa Leo's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
