Michael Abels
Michael Abels (born October 8, 1962, Phoenix, United States), aged 64, is an American composer. Abels is best known for The American Society of Magical Negroes. Abels's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Michael Abels’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Michael
Michael Abels’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Michael in the U.S.?
#21
US rank in 2025
~4,448,633
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
The SSA recorded 85,059 American boys and 356 girls named Michael in 1962: 1st among boys and 519th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michael’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Michael apart
Matt Damon (1970) and Bruno Mars (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Michael, according to the stars
Core essence
Michael makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Michael is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Michael 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 Michael 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 Michael wants to be loved
Michael wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Michael even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Michael creates
How Michael makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Michael creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Michael is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Michael is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Michael does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Michael's birth date. Working below.
Where Michael sits
Six lines
Michael’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Michael Abels
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Phoenix 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 Phoenix that night
Computed for 33.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Phoenix at 9 p.m. that evening: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 11.7° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
Phoenix sits at 33.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 75% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 37° below the horizon.
How unusual Michael's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Fire planets
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Michael Abels's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 8, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Michael Abels was born on October 8, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Michael Abels's birth date, October 8, 1962, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Abels' date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Fire.
- Michael Abels combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Aquarius 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
stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb
Michael’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
Michael’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 5.5° orb
Michael’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineMars4.3° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.2° to 6.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn6.2° to 6.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.5° to 7.6° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.5° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.
Michael’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°52′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 22°41′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 11°16′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 24°21′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea square Venus 0.4°
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Ceres square Venus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 2.1°
Michael’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Michael’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Venus quintile Saturn 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
More people like Michael
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- Jon Bon Jovi1962
- Anthony Kiedis1962
- Axl Rose1962
- Jennifer Higdon1962
- Wynton Marsalis1961
- Maynard James Keenan1964
Born in United States
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- Joan CusackAmerican actress
- Dina LohanAmerican actress
- Kelly PrestonAmerican actress
- Greg GrandinAmerican historian
- Anthony KiedisAmerican musician
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- Martin EmersonAmerican football cornerback
Born in Tiger years
- Dillon RadunzAmerican football offensive tackle
- Chauncey GolstonAmerican football player
- Jordan StoutAmerican football player (born 1998)
Also born on October 8
- Matt Damon1970
- Bruno Mars1985
- Juan Perón1895
- Barbara Palvin1993
- Zheng Qinwen2002
- Nick Cannon1980
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Harrison IngramAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Kyshawn GeorgeSwiss basketball player (born 2003)
- Felix OkparaNigerian basketball player (born 2004)
Other Libra Tiger charts
- Andre SzmytAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Kalia DavisAmerican football defensive tackle
- Patrick Jones IIAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Devin LloydAmerican football player (born 1998)
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- Sri Prakash Lohiabusinessperson
- Kerry StokesAustralian businessman
- Lino SaputoCanadian businessman
- Michael J. SaylorAmerican business executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist (born 1965)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Jean HeatherAmerican actress
- Jack OakieAmerican actor
- Doug JonesAmerican actor, contortionist and mime
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Michael’s cards
Computed from October 8, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2413003 (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 Costacommunicationsinc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michael Abels at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Michael Abels.
Quick answers about Michael Abels’s chart
- How old is Michael Abels?
- Michael Abels is 64 years old, born October 8, 1962 in Phoenix, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Michael Abels?
- Michael Abels is a Libra: born October 8, 1962, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Michael Abels's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 8, 1962 birth.
- What is Michael Abels's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Michael Abels's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Michael Abels'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 Michael Abels's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
