Melissa Peterman
Melissa Peterman (born July 1, 1971, Minneapolis, United States), aged 55, is an American actress. Peterman is best known for Young Sheldon and Happy's Place.
Melissa Peterman’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Pig, with 
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Melissa Peterman’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Melissa apart
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961) and Pamela Anderson (1967) 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 feels the room before entering it. The core of Melissa is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Melissa, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Melissa cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Melissa needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
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 warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Melissa is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Melissa goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Melissa's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Melissa sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Melissa Peterman's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 1, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Melissa Peterman was born on July 1, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Melissa Peterman's birth date, July 1, 1971, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Melissa’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Melissa Peterman's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Melissa Peterman combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Melissa’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Melissa Peterman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Libra 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.
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Melissa’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.5° orb
Melissa’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.2° to 0.3° orb
Melissa’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb
Melissa’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineMars1.7° to 2.8° orb
Melissa’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableVenussquarePluto2.9° to 4.1° orb
Melissa’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb
Melissa’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° orb
Melissa’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.0° to 4.2° orb
Melissa’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb
Melissa’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareJupiter5.9° to 6.1° orb
Melissa’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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 13°45′ (moves 0.01° 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 27°55′ (moves 0.42° 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.
♡ ErosCancer 13°43′ (moves 0.91° 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.
⚕ HygieaLeo 23°47′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Melissa at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 3°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Melissa that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.1°
- Ceres square Pluto 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.0°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.8°
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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Melissa is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 0.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Melissa Peterman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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More charts like Melissa’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Jauan JenningsAmerican football wide receiver
- Kelee RingoAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Tyler SteenAmerican football player (born 2000)
Born in Pig years
- Wisława SzymborskaPolish poet, Nobel Prize winner
- Lee Kuan Yew1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore
- William GoldingBritish novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
Also born on July 1
- Diana, Princess of Wales1961
- Pamela Anderson1967
- Liv Tyler1977
- Carl Lewis1961
- Daniel Ricciardo1989
- Tate McRae2003
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Peter WeirAustralian film director (born 1944)
- Peter S. BeagleAmerican writer
- Dan O'BannonAmerican film director, screenwriter, actor
Other Cancer Pig charts
- Andrew Van GinkelAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Dalton RisnerAmerican football offensive guard
- Corliss Waitmanfootball player (born 1995)
- Luke KornetAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
Other Radiant Strategists
- Gunner OlszewskiAmerican football player
- Jarrick Bernard-ConverseAmerican football player
- Laquon TreadwellAmerican football player
- Camryn BynumAmerican football cornerback
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Kane WilliamsonNew Zealand cricketer
- Steve SmithAustralian international cricketer
- Terence CrawfordAmerican boxer
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Melissa’s cards
Every card is computed from July 1, 1971, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Melissa Peterman, 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 Q1274590, 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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Melissa Peterman at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Melissa Peterman.
Quick answers about Melissa Peterman’s chart
- How old is Melissa Peterman?
- Melissa Peterman is 55 years old, born July 1, 1971 in Minneapolis, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Melissa Peterman?
- Melissa Peterman is a Cancer: born July 1, 1971, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig.
- What is Melissa Peterman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 1, 1971 birth.
- What time was Melissa Peterman 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 Peterman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 1, 1971 birth date.
- What is Melissa Peterman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 1, 1971 birth date.
- Where is Melissa Peterman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Melissa Peterman's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
