Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday (born September 22, 1791, Newington Butts, United Kingdom; died 1867), was a British scientist. Faraday's honours include Rumford Medal, Copley Medal and Royal Medal.
Michael Faraday’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Pig, with 
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Michael Faraday’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Michael is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Michael is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Michael needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Michael wants to be loved
Michael wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Michael even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
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 warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Michael is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
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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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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Michael Faraday in 15 seconds
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Michael Faraday's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 22, 1791, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Metal Pig
Metal PigGives more than it gets.
Michael Faraday was born on September 22, 1791, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Michael Faraday's birth date, September 22, 1791, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Faraday's date-only chart is Mercury trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Michael Faraday combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Michael Faraday, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° 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.
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.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° orb
Michael’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.5° to 0.7° orb
Michael’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.5° to 1.9° orb
Michael’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb
Michael’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusoppositionPluto2.8° to 2.9° orb
Michael’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb
Michael’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.5° orb
Michael’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableVenussquareMars4.0° to 4.4° orb
Michael’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune6.2° orb
Michael’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableNeptunetrinePluto6.2° orb
Michael’s imagination flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune6.8° to 7.0° orb
Michael’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn7.4° to 7.7° orb
Michael’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironCancer 17°37′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Michael is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresGemini 25°15′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Michael feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCancer 17°39′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Michael is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 25°16′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Michael needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Michael that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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 Jupiter 0.4°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.9°
- Eros square Saturn 1.0°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.3°
- Eros square Mercury 2.5°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.6°
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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 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.
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.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Michael Faraday, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Michael’s cards
Every card is computed from September 22, 1791, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Michael Faraday, 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 Q8750, 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 Thomas Phillips, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michael Faraday at Wikipedia.
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 Faraday’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Michael Faraday?
- Michael Faraday was a Virgo: born September 22, 1791, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig.
- What was Michael Faraday's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 22, 1791 birth.
- What time was Michael Faraday 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 was Michael Faraday's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the September 22, 1791 birth date.
- What was Michael Faraday's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 22, 1791 birth date.
- Where was Michael Faraday's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Michael Faraday's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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