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Melissa Rauch

Melissa Rauch (born June 23, 1980, Marlboro, United States), aged 46, is an American actress, model, and comedian. Rauch is best known for The Big Bang Theory.

Melissa Rauch’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Melissa Rauch’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Diplomat

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, 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

Of the names registered in 1980, Melissa came 4th among girls and 747th among boys, carried by 31,629 American girls and 138 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Melissa’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

1

Soul Urge · independence

11

Personality · perceptive

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

2 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Pearl, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Magnolia

Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Melissa apart

What keeps Melissa Rauch in print: The Big Bang Theory.

Training came by way of Marlboro High School and Marymount Manhattan College.

The working life starts in 2006, at 26.

The family line: married Winston Beigel.

Alan Turing (1912) and Zinedine Zidane (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
The Big Bang Theory
Educated at
Marlboro High School and Marymount Manhattan College
Working from
2006
Wikipedia editions
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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 feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Melissa needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Melissa is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Melissa channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Melissa

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Melissa

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Melissa

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Melissa

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Melissa

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Melissa

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Melissa Rauch

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Marlboro 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 Marlboro that night

Computed for 40.34°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Marlboro at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 10.1° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 81% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.

How unusual Melissa's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mars · Venus retrograde · 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Cancer Sun

Guards the people, guards the past.

Melissa Rauch's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 23, 1980, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Metal Monkey

Wit is the tool.

Melissa Rauch was born on June 23, 1980, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 2

Diplomat by instinct.

Melissa Rauch's birth date, June 23, 1980, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Melissa’s chart

Melissa’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.1° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.1° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.2° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.5° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.2° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.4° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.5° orbSun in Cancer · 2°19′☉2°Moon in Scorpio · 6°50′☽6°Mercury in Cancer · 24°14′☿24°Venus in Gemini · 19°28′ · retrograde♀℞19°Mars in Virgo · 20°51′♂20°Jupiter in Virgo · 4°55′♃4°Saturn in Virgo · 21°04′♄21°Uranus in Scorpio · 22°03′ · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Sagittarius · 20°59′ · retrograde♆℞20°Pluto in Libra · 18°59′ · retrograde♇℞18°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Melissa’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Melissa’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb

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

  • stableVenustrinePluto0.3° to 0.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars0.9° to 1.9° orb

  • stableMarssextileUranus0.9° to 1.5° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus0.9° to 1.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn1.3° to 1.9° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune1.3° to 1.7° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus2.0° to 2.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter2.2° to 3.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Melissa’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 16°40′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 12°24′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 11°11′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 19°14′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Mars 1.6°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 1.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.8°

Melissa’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Melissa’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Venus, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn 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.

  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.9°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°

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Melissa’s cards

Computed from June 23, 1980. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Diplomat

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Melissa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q236364 (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 Original: Dominick D Derivative work: Danyele This image was created with Adobe Photoshop Elements., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Melissa Rauch.

Quick answers about Melissa Rauch’s chart

How old is Melissa Rauch?
Melissa Rauch is 46 years old, born June 23, 1980 in Marlboro, United States.
What zodiac sign is Melissa Rauch?
Melissa Rauch is a Cancer: born June 23, 1980, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is Melissa Rauch's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 23, 1980 birth.
What is Melissa Rauch's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Melissa Rauch's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Melissa Rauch's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Melissa Rauch's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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