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.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Michael
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.
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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour 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
Water RabbitGentle, 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
Life Path 3Makes 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
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Chabon's date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Michael Chabon combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
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.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Michael’s chart
T-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 WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese 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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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.
