Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino (born February 3, 1939, New York City, United States; died 2016), was an American film director. Cimino's honours include Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Director and Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
Michael Cimino’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Michael
Michael Cimino’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
In 1939, 10,828 American boys and 81 girls were registered Michael — 18th among boys and 764th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michael’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
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
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
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 1938, 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
The Academy Award for Best Director came in 1979, when Michael Cimino was 40.
Study took Michael Cimino to Michigan State University and Yale School of Art.
Michael Cimino was 35 when the work began in 1974.
Cause of death is recorded as heart failure.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Old Westbury, New York, Combat medics and Television advertisement directors.
Isla Fisher (1976) and Daddy Yankee (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Michigan State University, Yale School of Art and Westbury High School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Director (1979), Academy Award for Best Picture (1979) and Golden Globe Award for Best Director (1979)
- Nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay
- Working from
- 1974
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 48
What the chart says
Michael, according to the stars
Core essence
Michael is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Michael is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Michael wants to be loved
Michael wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Michael and watch them fall for you again.
How Michael creates
How Michael makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Michael creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Michael has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Cimino
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 4.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2016.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Michael Cimino: 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
1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Michael Cimino's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 3, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Michael Cimino was born on February 3, 1939, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Michael Cimino's birth date, February 3, 1939, 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 Cimino's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Michael Cimino combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 12° Cancer or Leo 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
stableSunsextileSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb
Michael’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Michael’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 0.6° orb
Michael’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.2° to 3.9° orb
stableMarstrinePluto2.8° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.3° to 4.7° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.2° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.8° to 16.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 1.2° to 16.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Michael’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 4°55′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 17°13′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 16°59′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 21°49′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 4°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.8°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.8°
Michael’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes 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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun quintile Mars 1.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
More people like Michael
Other screenwriters
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- Charles Fuller1939
- Anthony Hopkins1937
- Francis Ford Coppola1939
- John Kennedy Toole1937
- Paul Gleason1939
Born in United States
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- Edna BuchananAmerican writer
- Maxine WatersUnited States Representative from California since 1991
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- Charles Thomson Rees WilsonScottish physicist and meteorologist
- Linda B. BuckAmerican biologist
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Born in Tiger years
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- Donald L. CoburnAmerican dramatist
- John HerseyAmerican journalist, novelist, professor
Also born on February 3
- Isla Fisher1976
- Daddy Yankee1976
- Amal Clooney1978
- India Love1996
- Sean Kingston1990
- Maura Tierney1965
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Damian McKenzieNew Zealand rugby union player
- Jasprit BumrahIndian cricketer (born 1993)
- Shakur StevensonAmerican professional boxer
Other Aquarius Tiger charts
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Other Gilded Lightkeepers
- Walker KesslerAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Aday MaraSpanish basketball player (born 2005)
- Adem BonaTurkish basketball player (born 2003)
- Andre Jackson Jr.American basketball player (born 2001)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Amine SbaïMoroccan and French association football player
- Henrik FalchenerNorwegian footballer (born 2003)
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Michael’s cards
Computed from February 3, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q59129 (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 Damiano Debiasi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michael Cimino at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Michael Cimino.
Quick answers about Michael Cimino’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Michael Cimino?
- Michael Cimino was an Aquarius: born February 3, 1939, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Michael Cimino's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 3, 1939 birth.
- What was Michael Cimino's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Michael Cimino's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Michael Cimino's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Michael Cimino's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
