Michael Clarke Duncan
Michael Clarke Duncan (born December 10, 1957, Chicago, United States; died 2012), was an American actor.
Michael Clarke Duncan’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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Michael Clarke Duncan’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 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, 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
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
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Michael apart
Ada Lovelace (1815) and Gonzalo Higuaín (1987) 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 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 as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Michael be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
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 sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Michael is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Michael runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Michael's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Michael sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Michael Clarke Duncan in 15 seconds
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Michael Clarke Duncan's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 10, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Michael Clarke Duncan was born on December 10, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Michael Clarke Duncan's birth date, December 10, 1957, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Clarke Duncan's date-only chart is Venus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Michael Clarke Duncan 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
No documented birth time exists for Michael Clarke Duncan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 7.2° orb
Michael’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.2° to 1.0° orb
Michael’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb
Michael’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb
Michael’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.5° to 5.6° orb
Michael’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.4° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 1.7° to 15.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 4.5° to 17.8° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileNeptuneorb from 4.7° to 5.5° depending on birth time
possibleMercurytrinePlutoorb from 6.3° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineUranusorb from 6.5° to 7.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 13°36′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Michael making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 29°16′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Michael is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosSagittarius 10°31′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Michael attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaAries 7°28′ (moves 0.06° 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 LilithPisces 21°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Michael is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.5°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.9°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.6°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.2°
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. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Saturn
2. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn3 pts
disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Michael is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.4°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.9°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Michael Clarke Duncan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Michael’s cards
Every card is computed from December 10, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Michael Clarke Duncan, 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 Q483148, 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 Movieguide®, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michael Clarke Duncan at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Clarke Duncan.
Quick answers about Michael Clarke Duncan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Michael Clarke Duncan?
- Michael Clarke Duncan was a Sagittarius: born December 10, 1957, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster.
- What was Michael Clarke Duncan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 10, 1957 birth.
- What time was Michael Clarke Duncan 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.
- How tall was Michael Clarke Duncan?
- Michael Clarke Duncan was 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Michael Clarke Duncan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the December 10, 1957 birth date.
- What was Michael Clarke Duncan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 10, 1957 birth date.
- Where was Michael Clarke Duncan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Michael Clarke Duncan's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Saturn). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
