Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson (born August 29, 1958, Gary, United States; died 2009), was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer. Jackson is best remembered for Thriller and Bad. Jackson's honours include Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Officer of the National Order of Merit and American Choreography Awards.
Michael Jackson’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dog, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Michael
Michael Jackson’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, 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
The SSA recorded 90,604 American boys and 295 girls named Michael in 1958: 1st among boys and 574th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michael’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
6 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1958, 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 record Michael Jackson is measured by: Thriller and Bad.
Study took Michael Jackson to Montclair College Preparatory School.
The record gives cardiac arrest as the cause, and Forest Lawn Memorial Park as the resting place.
Michael Jackson was born to Katherine Jackson and Joe Jackson (talent manager), married Lisa Marie Presley and Debbie Rowe and raised 3 children.
Liam Payne (1993) and Lea Michele (1986) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Thriller and Bad
- Educated at
- Montclair College Preparatory School
- Instruments
- guitar, piano, drum kit and voice
- Awards
- Grammy Award for Song of the Year (1986), Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance (1984) and Grammy Award for Record of the Year (1984)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
- Working from
- 1964
- Cause of death
- cardiac arrest
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 322
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 porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Michael needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Michael wants to be loved
Michael wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Michael openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Michael creates
How Michael makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Michael creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Michael is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Michael is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Michael is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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 Jackson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Gary 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 Gary that night
Computed for 41.58°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Gary at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 3.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
Gary sits at 41.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Gary on any night.
Sun 16° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Gary, United States
- Lived in
- Holmby Hills
Wikidata records Holmby Hills as Michael Jackson's home, against Gary as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, Los Angeles in 2009.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Michael Jackson: 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
A leaning bowl
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Michael Jackson's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 29, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Dog
Earth DogThe first call when it's bad.
Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Michael Jackson's birth date, August 29, 1958, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Jackson's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Michael Jackson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Pisces 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb
Michael’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.8° to 3.0° orb
Michael’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.6° to 3.2° orb
Michael’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.6° to 3.8° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.8° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.6° to 5.7° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn6.2° to 6.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 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 ℞Aquarius 19°19′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 16°00′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aries 4°33′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 18°19′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 21°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.1°
- Chiron opposition Venus 2.6°
- Chiron square Mars 2.6°
Michael’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 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.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.2°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.6°
Michael’s family here
13 relatives of Michael Jackson also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
More people like Michael
Born in United States
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- Jennifer TillyAmerican actress
- Tim BurtonAmerican filmmaker and artist
- Viggo MortensenAmerican actor
- Jeff YassAmerican businessman, co-founder of Susquehanna International Group
- Chris ColumbusAmerican filmmaker (born 1958)
More charts like Michael’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Harry Connick Jr.American musician and actor (born 1967)
- Harry MyersAmerican actor
- John SavageAmerican actor
Born in Dog years
- Dorothy HodgkinBritish chemist
- Marjorie EstianoBrazilian actress and singer
- Uma ThurmanAmerican actress and model
Also born on August 29
- Liam Payne1993
- Lea Michele1986
- Brian Chesky1981
- Pierpaolo Piccioli1967
- John McCain1936
- Courtney Stodden1994
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Yang Jung-wonSouth Korean singer
- Jeremy AllaireAmerican-born technologist and Internet entrepreneur
- Walter HoodAmerican architect
Other Virgo Dog charts
- Carl BoschGerman chemical engineer
- David J. ThoulessBritish physicist
- Arthur AshkinAmerican physicist
- Robert RobinsonEnglish chemist
Other Steadfast Healers
- Dwight D. Eisenhowerpresident of the United States from 1953 to 1961
- A. S. ByattBritish writer
- Iris MurdochIrish-born British writer and philosopher
- Damon GalgutSouth African writer (1963-)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Charles NicolleFrench microbiologist
- Baruj BenacerrafVenezuelan-American immunologist
- Ulf von EulerSwedish physiologist and pharmacologist
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Michael’s cards
Computed from August 29, 1958. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2831 (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 Matthew Rolston; Distributed by Epic Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michael Jackson at Wikipedia, michaeljackson.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Michael Jackson.
Quick answers about Michael Jackson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Michael Jackson?
- Michael Jackson was a Virgo: born August 29, 1958, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Michael Jackson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 29, 1958 birth.
- How tall was Michael Jackson?
- Michael Jackson was 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Michael Jackson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Michael Jackson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Michael Jackson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Michael Jackson's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
