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Portrait of Michael Chabon

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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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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

US Social Security Administration public records

Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Michael sits

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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.

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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Michael’s chart

Michael’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Michael Chabon, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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′Moon in Gemini · 23°39′23°Mercury in Taurus · 23°02′ · retrograde23°Venus in Taurus · 6°47′Mars in Leo · 25°20′25°Jupiter in Aries · 11°07′11°Saturn in Aquarius · 23°02′23°Uranus in Virgo · 1°15′Neptune in Scorpio · 13°47′ · retrograde13°Pluto in Virgo · 9°32′

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.

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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.

  • 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

    Michael’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableVenustrinePluto2.2° to 3.4° orb

    Michael’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb

    Michael’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrineUranus4.9° to 6.1° orb

    Michael’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.7° to 6.2° orb

    Michael’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.4° to 7.6° orb

    Michael’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Michael absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

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

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

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Michael caring in practical detail rather than in words.

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

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Michael is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

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

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Michael feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Michael is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Michael’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. 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

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Michael is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Michael’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.

  • 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 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.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Michael Chabon, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Michael’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

yin Water

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yin Fire

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Fire

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Michael Chabon, 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

Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313466, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit.
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 time was Michael Chabon 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 Michael Chabon's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the May 24, 1963 birth date.
What is Michael Chabon's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 24, 1963 birth date.
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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