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Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas (born September 25, 1944, New Brunswick, United States, 10:30), aged 82, is an American actor, producer and activist. Douglas is best known for Falling Down, The Game and Wall Street. Douglas's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Picture and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

Michael Douglas’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Michael Douglas’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Visionary

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, 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

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

7 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Sapphire, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid

Lavender · Blush · Botanical green

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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Michael is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Michael is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Michael needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Michael wants to be loved

Michael wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Michael gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Michael creates

How Michael makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Michael creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Michael is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Michael is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Michael fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Michael's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Michael sits

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Michael’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Michael

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

PracticalVisionary
Michael

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Michael

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Michael Douglas at a glance

Libra Sun

Beauty matters. So does balance.

Michael Douglas's Sun was in Libra at the documented birth time. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.

Wood Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Michael Douglas was born on September 25, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 7

Asks the better question.

Michael Douglas's birth date, September 25, 1944, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in Michael’s chart

Michael’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 0° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.3° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 1.2° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.5° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.8° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.1° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.3° orbSun in Libra · 2°23′ · house 12☉2°Moon in Capricorn · 3°36′ · house 3☽3°Mercury in Virgo · 14°59′ · house 11☿14°Venus in Libra · 26°44′ · house 12♀26°Mars in Libra · 18°00′ · house 12♂18°Jupiter in Virgo · 13°10′ · house 11♃13°Saturn in Cancer · 10°05′ · house 9♄10°Uranus in Gemini · 13°07′ · house 8 · retrograde♅℞13°Neptune in Libra · 3°56′ · house 12♆3°Pluto in Leo · 9°47′ · house 10♇9°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSco 15°14′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCTau 15°14′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLeo 25°03′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAqr 25°03′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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AscendantScorpio
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • JupitersquareUranusseparating · 0.0° orb

    Michael’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • MoonsquareNeptuneapplying · 0.3° orb

    Michael’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • SunsquareMoonseparating · 1.2° orb

    Michael’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • SunconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 1.5° orb

    Michael’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MercuryconjunctionJupiterseparating · 1.8° orb

    Michael’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MercurysquareUranusseparating · 1.9° orb

    Michael’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • JupitersextileSaturnseparating · 3.1° orb

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

  • UranussextilePlutoapplying · 3.3° orb

    Michael’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MercurysextileSaturnseparating · 4.9° orb

    Michael’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • MarstrineUranusseparating · 4.9° orb

    Michael’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • SaturnsquareNeptuneseparating · 6.2° orb

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

  • MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 6.5° orb

    Michael’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo 23°07′ · House 11

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

    Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Michael turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 16°09′ · House 11

    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.

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 11°10′ · House 7

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

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Michael wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 22°46′ · House 1

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

    Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Michael carrying stress in the body until it is named.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 24°34′ · House 11

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Michael exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Ceres sextile Ascendant 0.9°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 1.1°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.2°
  • Eros square Pluto 1.4°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 2.0°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 3 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Michael is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Venus, Mars, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Moon, Saturn, NeptuneAn 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 biquintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.4°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°

Michael’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 10emptyself, body, how you arrive
2SagittariusJupiter in Virgo, house 11emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3CapricornSaturn in Cancer, house 9Moonmind, siblings, the local world
4AquariusUranus in Gemini, house 8emptyhome, family, roots
5PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 12emptycreativity, romance, play
6AriesMars in Libra, house 12emptywork, habits, health
7TaurusVenus in Libra, house 12emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8GeminiMercury in Virgo, house 11Uranusshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CancerMoon in Capricorn, house 3Saturnbelief, travel, higher learning
10LeoSun in Libra, house 12Plutocareer, reputation, public life
11VirgoMercury in Virgo, house 11Mercury, Jupiterfriends, community, the future
12LibraVenus in Libra, house 12Sun, Venus, Mars, Neptunethe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Michael’s family here

2 relatives of Michael Douglas also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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Michael’s cards

Every card is computed from September 25, 1944, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Visionary

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q119798, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Jan Beránek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Michael Douglas 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.

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Quick answers about Michael Douglas’s chart

How old is Michael Douglas?
Michael Douglas is 82 years old, born September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, United States.
What zodiac sign is Michael Douglas?
Michael Douglas is a Libra: born September 25, 1944, which puts the Sun in Libra at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey.
What is Michael Douglas's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 25, 1944 birth.
What time was Michael Douglas born?
10:30 local time in New Brunswick, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Michael Douglas's rising sign?
Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 10:30 birth time in New Brunswick, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Michael Douglas's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the September 25, 1944 birth date.
What is Michael Douglas's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 23°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 25, 1944 birth time.
Where is Michael Douglas's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 24°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Michael Douglas's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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