Melissa Rycroft
Melissa Rycroft (born March 11, 1983, Dallas, United States), aged 43, is an American actress and singer.
Melissa Rycroft’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Pig, with 
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Melissa Rycroft’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Melissa apart
Rupert Murdoch (1931) and Didier Drogba (1978) 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 everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Melissa is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Melissa needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Melissa needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Melissa creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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 to wait. Mars in Aries means Melissa gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Melissa's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Melissa Rycroft's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 11, 1983, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Water Pig
Water PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Melissa Rycroft was born on March 11, 1983, which falls in a Water 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 8Built for the big table.
Melissa Rycroft's birth date, March 11, 1983, 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 Rycroft's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Melissa Rycroft combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Melissa’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Melissa Rycroft, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Aquarius 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.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° orb
Melissa’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.4° to 1.1° orb
Melissa’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.6° to 2.3° orb
Melissa’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.4° orb
Melissa’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineUranus1.8° to 2.6° orb
Melissa’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.0° to 3.7° orb
Melissa’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.0° to 4.8° orb
Melissa’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.7° orb
Melissa’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.7° orb
Melissa’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.2° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.6° to 12.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 23°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Melissa building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresAquarius 5°41′ (moves 0.35° 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.
♡ ErosPisces 7°30′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Melissa is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 2°25′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Melissa carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 29°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Melissa is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for 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.
- Eros conjunction Mercury 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.4°
- Eros square Uranus 1.6°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.9°
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. ♃ Jupiter8.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Melissa is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Melissa Rycroft, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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More charts like Melissa’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Fred VanVleetAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Andrew WigginsCanadian basketball player (born 1995)
- Tim Hardaway Jr.American basketball player (born 1992)
Born in Pig years
- Kij JohnsonAmerican writer
- Ron MillerAmerican illustrator and author
- Bogi TakácsHungarian writer, editor, reviewer
Also born on March 11
- Rupert Murdoch1931
- Didier Drogba1978
- Johnny Knoxville1971
- Mark Rober1980
- Black Coffee1976
- Terrence Howard1969
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Lee Byung-chulSouth Korean business man; founder of the Samsung Group
- Nikki BlonskyAmerican actress
- TinasheAmerican singer, actress, and dancer
Other Pisces Pig charts
- Luka VuškovićCroatian association football player
- Brandon AubreyAmerican football and soccer player (born 1995)
- Andrew BillingsAmerican football player
- Folorunso FatukasiAmerican football player (born 1995)
Other Steadfast Storytellers
- Svante August ArrheniusSwedish astronomer, chemist and physicist
- Alexander ProkhorovSoviet and Russian physicist
- Kurt WüthrichSwiss chemist (born 1938)
- Peter MansfieldEnglish physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging
Famous people with Life Path 8
- William DanielsAmerican actor (born 1927)
- Ted DansonAmerican actor (born 1947)
- Stefon DiggsAmerican football player (born 1993)
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Melissa’s cards
Every card is computed from March 11, 1983, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Melissa Rycroft, 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 Q2112258, 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 Valder Beebe Show, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Melissa Rycroft 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 Rycroft.
Quick answers about Melissa Rycroft’s chart
- How old is Melissa Rycroft?
- Melissa Rycroft is 43 years old, born March 11, 1983 in Dallas, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Melissa Rycroft?
- Melissa Rycroft is a Pisces: born March 11, 1983, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Pig.
- What is Melissa Rycroft's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 11, 1983 birth.
- What time was Melissa Rycroft 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 Rycroft's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the March 11, 1983 birth date.
- What is Melissa Rycroft's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 11, 1983 birth date.
- Where is Melissa Rycroft's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Melissa Rycroft's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
