Michael Bates
Michael Bates (born December 4, 1920, Jhansi, India; died 1978), was a British actor.
Michael Bates’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Michael
Michael Bates’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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 4,003 American boys and 22 girls named Michael in 1920: 50th among boys and 1,868th 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1920, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Michael apart
Michael Bates was taught at Uppingham School and St Catharine's College.
Michael Bates was 33 when the work began in 1953.
The record gives cancer as the cause, and South West Middlesex Crematorium as the resting place.
Wikipedia files Michael Bates under People from Jhansi, Royal Gurkha Rifles officers and Male actors from British India.
Jay-Z (1969) and Tyra Banks (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Uppingham School and St Catharine's College
- Working from
- 1953
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Buried at
- South West Middlesex Crematorium
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- Hindi, Urdu and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 16
What the chart says
Michael, according to the stars
Core essence
Michael is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Michael is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Michael wants to be loved
Michael wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Michael you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Michael creates
How Michael makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Michael creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Michael 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 1 is the pioneer. Michael is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Michael leads without needing to do it alone.
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. Michael 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 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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Bates
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Jhansi 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 Jhansi that night
Computed for 25.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Sheratan stood nearest the zenith over Jhansi at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.1° above the horizon in Aries.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
Jhansi sits at 25.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 30% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Jhansi, India
The death is recorded at Cambridge in 1978.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Michael Bates: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Michael's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Michael Bates at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Michael Bates's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 4, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Michael Bates was born on December 4, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Michael Bates's birth date, December 4, 1920, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Bates' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Michael Bates combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Virgo or Libra 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
stableSuntrineNeptune1.3° to 2.4° orb
Michael’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.3° to 1.5° orb
Michael’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.9° to 3.0° orb
Michael’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenustrineJupiter2.1° to 3.2° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn3.3° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.2° to 6.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.4° to 6.5° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.4° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.4° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 1.0° to 14.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Michael’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°03′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 7°24′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 3°25′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 3°42′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 15°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.9°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.0°
- Eros square Uranus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.7°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.3°
Michael’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 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 sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
More people like Michael
Other actors
- Martin Balsam1919
- Jan Sterling1921
- Teresa Wright1918
- George Nader1921
- Ralph Meeker1920
- Jean Heather1921
Born in India
- Bengaluru Venkata RamanIndian astrologer
- Adi GodrejIndian businessman
- Mahatma GandhiIndian independence activist
- N. R. Narayana MurthyIndian businessman
- Indira GandhiPrime Minister of India
- Ratan TataIndian industrialist
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Born in Monkey years
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- AshantiAmerican singer and songwriter
- Cole SprouseAmerican actor
Also born on December 4
- Jay-Z1969
- Tyra Banks1973
- Marisa Tomei1964
- Kim Seok-jin1992
- Ronnie Ortiz-Magro1985
- Nancy Mace1977
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- Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabhabusinessman
- Juan Carlos EscotetVenezuelan economist and banker
Other Sagittarius Monkey charts
- Virgil ThomsonAmerican composer and critic
- Elliott CarterAmerican composer
- Sergey PonomarevRussian photojournalist (1980-)
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Other Radiant Storytellers
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- GaviSpanish association football player
- Handré PollardSouth African rugby union footballer
- Anna ShcherbakovaRussian figure skater (born 2004)
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Elizabeth StroutAmerican novelist (born 1956)
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- Ola Elizabeth WinslowAmerican colonial historian, professor of English
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Michael’s cards
Computed from December 4, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1369342 (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 Stanley Kubrick, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michael Bates at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Bates.
Quick answers about Michael Bates’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Michael Bates?
- Michael Bates was a Sagittarius: born December 4, 1920, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Michael Bates's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 4, 1920 birth.
- What was Michael Bates's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Michael Bates's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Michael Bates's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Michael Bates's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
