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Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 63, is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist. Chabon is best known for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Chabon's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Nebula Award for Best Novel.

Michael Chabon’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Water Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

Your match with Michael

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Michael Chabon’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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 83,771 American boys and 376 girls named Michael in 1963: 1st among boys and 501st 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.

4

Expression · building what holds

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as 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

3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink

The record

What sets Michael apart

Bob Dylan (1941) and Joseph Brodsky (1940) 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 is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Michael needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Michael wants to be loved

Michael wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Michael is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Michael creates

How Michael 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. Michael 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: Michael is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Michael is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Michael fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Michael

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Michael

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

PrivateExpressive
Michael

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Michael

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

PracticalVisionary
Michael

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Michael

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 Michael Chabon

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

Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Washington was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 79.3° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.

Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Washington at all: they sit past the −51.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 5% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.

How unusual Michael's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mercury · 1 unaspected planet

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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Michael Chabon in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Four conversations, one person.

Michael Chabon's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 24, 1963, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Water Rabbit

Gentle, and never cornered.

Michael Chabon was born on May 24, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Michael Chabon's birth date, May 24, 1963, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Michael’s chart

Michael’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 0° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.6° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.5° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.7° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 2.3° orbMars faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.3° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.2° orbSun in Gemini · 2°46′☉2°Moon in Gemini · 23°39′☽23°Mercury in Taurus · 23°02′ · retrograde☿℞23°Venus in Taurus · 6°47′♀6°Mars in Leo · 25°20′♂25°Jupiter in Aries · 11°07′♃11°Saturn in Aquarius · 23°02′♄23°Uranus in Virgo · 1°15′♅1°Neptune in Scorpio · 13°47′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Virgo · 9°32′♇9°

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

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 0.2° orb

    Michael’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableSunsquareUranus1.0° to 2.0° orb

    Michael’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysquareMars1.8° to 2.7° orb

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

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.1° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto2.2° to 3.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus4.9° to 6.1° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.7° to 6.2° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.4° to 7.6° orb

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.4° to 15.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 14°38′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 8°49′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 2°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 26°19′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 3°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Sun 0.0°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.7°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.8°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 1.0°
  • Ceres trine Venus 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 3.0°

Michael’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Michael’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn 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.

  • Uranus quintile Neptune 0.5°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.8°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.6°

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Michael’s cards

Computed from May 24, 1963. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313466 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Michael Chabon at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Michael Chabon.

Quick answers about Michael Chabon’s chart

How old is Michael Chabon?
Michael Chabon is 63 years old, born May 24, 1963 in Washington, D.C., United States.
What zodiac sign is Michael Chabon?
Michael Chabon is a Gemini: born May 24, 1963, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Michael Chabon's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 24, 1963 birth.
What is Michael Chabon's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Michael Chabon's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Michael Chabon's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Michael Chabon's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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