How old is Michael Jordan?

Michael Jordan is 63 years old, born February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, United States.

What zodiac sign is Michael Jordan?

Michael Jordan is an Aquarius: born February 17, 1963, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time.

What is Michael Jordan's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 17, 1963 birth.

What time was Michael Jordan born?

13:40 local time in Brooklyn, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).

What is Michael Jordan's rising sign?

Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 13:40 birth time in Brooklyn, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).

How tall is Michael Jordan?

Michael Jordan is 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.

What is Michael Jordan's Life Path number?

Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.

What is Michael Jordan's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Pisces at 9°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.

Where is Michael Jordan's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 23°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What is Michael Jordan's dominant planet?

Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan (born February 17, 1963, Brooklyn, United States, 13:40), aged 63, is an American basketball player and businessman. Jordan has played for Chicago Bulls, Washington Wizards and Birmingham Barons. Jordan's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player Award and NBA Most Valuable Player Award.

Michael Jordan’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Rabbit, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

Your match with Michael

Michael Jordan’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 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, 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

Michael ranked 1st among boys and 501st among girls in 1963, the year of this birth, with 83,771 American boys and 376 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Michael’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · versatility

Soul Urge · solid ground

Personality · self-directed

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

11 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1963, 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

Michael Jordan took the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in 1985, at 22.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Emsley A. Laney High School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1984, at 21.

Michael Jordan was born to Deloris Jordan and James R. Jordan, Sr., married Yvette Prieto and raised 5 children.

Wikipedia's editors put Michael Jordan under Baseball players from Brooklyn, African-American motorsport people and American sports executives and administrators.

The same date carries Jensen Huang. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Emsley A. Laney High School
Awards: Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016), NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player Award (1998) and 50 Greatest Players in NBA History (1996)
Nominated for: Best Comeback Athlete ESPY Award and BET Award for Athlete of the Century
Working from: 1984
Sport: baseball
Citizenship: United States
Languages: English
Wikipedia editions: 139

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.

The vibe

Underneath, Michael is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Michael needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Michael wants to be loved

Michael wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Michael you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Michael is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

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. Working below.

Where Michael sits

Six lines

Michael’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network

Michael

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous

Michael

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive

Michael

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Michael

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

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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✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Michael Jordan

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Michael’s birth-sky starAlpheratzblue-white · AndromedaAlpheratz, in Andromeda. A blue-white star, 76.3° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alpheratz →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 30.7° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Brooklyn at 13:40, Michael Jordan’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Brooklyn that night

Computed for 40.65°N, at the documented birth time.

Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at the birth hour, 76.3° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 94 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 40% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat -33° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in: Brooklyn, United States
Lives in: Wilmington · Highland Park

Wikidata records Wilmington and Highland Park as Michael Jordan's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Michael's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 未.

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 5/1

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

51 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Neptune · Mars retrograde

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.

Score your own chart →

Michael Jordan at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Michael Jordan's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time.

What Aquarius means →

Water Rabbit

Gentle, and never cornered.

Michael Jordan was born on February 17, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 11

Nervy, gifted, tuned high.

Michael Jordan's birth date, February 17, 1963, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Michael’s chart

One of the ten planets sits in angular houses in Michael Jordan's timed chart: Venus in the 7th house.
The tightest major aspect in Michael Jordan's timed chart is Moon trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
Michael Jordan 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

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.

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.

Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

Tap one to light it on the wheel.

AscendantCancer

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

Aspects, tightest first

MoontrineMarsseparating · 0.1° orb
Michael’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SaturnsquareNeptuneapplying · 0.1° orb
Michael’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoonsquarePlutoapplying · 1.2° orb
Michael’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
VenustrinePlutoseparating · 2.0° orb
VenussextileNeptuneapplying · 2.5° orb
JupitertrineNeptuneseparating · 3.4° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.5° orb
SunoppositionUranusapplying · 5.1° orb
MarsoppositionSaturnseparating · 5.6° orb
MarssquareNeptuneseparating · 5.7° orb
MoonsquareUranusseparating · 6.5° orb
MercuryoppositionMarsapplying · 7.3° orb
UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 7.7° orb
JupiteroppositionPlutoseparating · 7.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

Fire2 of 10
Earth3 of 10
Air3 of 10
Water2 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal1 of 10
Fixed5 of 10
Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Michael’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

⚷ ChironPisces 9°43′ · House 9
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 14°01′ · House 3
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 25°30′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 23°28′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 23°07′ · House 4
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Chiron square Moon 0.3°
Ceres trine Venus 0.8°
Ceres sextile Ascendant 0.9°
Chiron opposition Pluto 1.5°
Ceres sextile Neptune 1.6°
Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.8°
Eros sextile Sun 2.9°

Michael’s dominant planets

1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Michael’s chart

Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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 onto Neptune · Mars, 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
Uranus quintile Neptune 0.2°
Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.8°
Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.4°

Michael’s houses

Michael’s houses
House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Cancer	Moon in Sagittarius, house 6	empty	self, body, how you arrive
2	Leo	Sun in Aquarius, house 8	Mars	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Virgo	Mercury in Aquarius, house 8	Uranus, Pluto	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Libra	Venus in Capricorn, house 7	empty	home, family, roots
5	Scorpio	Pluto in Virgo, house 3	Neptune	creativity, romance, play
6	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Pisces, house 9	Moon	work, habits, health
7	Capricorn	Saturn in Aquarius, house 8	Venus	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Aquarius	Uranus in Virgo, house 3	Sun, Mercury, Saturn	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Pisces	Neptune in Scorpio, house 5	Jupiter	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Aries	Mars in Leo, house 2	empty	career, reputation, public life
11	Taurus	Venus in Capricorn, house 7	empty	friends, community, the future
12	Gemini	Mercury in Aquarius, house 8	empty	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

Born the same day as Michael

Jensen Huang was born on February 17, 1963 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.7°N, the sky above Brooklyn stops at −49.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.

Jensen HuangAmerican entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia

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Michael’s cards

Computed from February 17, 1963. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q41421 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by DOD photo by D. Myles Cullen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Michael Jordan at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Jordan.

Quick answers about Michael Jordan’s chart

How old is Michael Jordan?: Michael Jordan is 63 years old, born February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, United States.
What zodiac sign is Michael Jordan?: Michael Jordan is an Aquarius: born February 17, 1963, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
What is Michael Jordan's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 17, 1963 birth.
What time was Michael Jordan born?: 13:40 local time in Brooklyn, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Michael Jordan's rising sign?: Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 13:40 birth time in Brooklyn, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Michael Jordan?: Michael Jordan is 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Michael Jordan's Life Path number?: Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Michael Jordan's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Pisces at 9°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Michael Jordan's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 23°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Michael Jordan's dominant planet?: Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Your match with Michael

How common is the name Michael in the U.S.?

What Michael’s name adds up to

Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

What sets Michael apart

Michael, according to the stars

Core essence

The vibe

How Michael wants to be loved

How Michael creates

Instinct

Purpose

Triggers

Six lines

Dedicate a star to Michael Jordan

The sky over Brooklyn that night

The name and the places

What Michael's birth time unlocks

Michael Jordan at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Water Rabbit

Life Path 11

What stands out in Michael’s chart

Michael’s birth chart

Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

Michael’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Michael’s dominant planets

Configurations in Michael’s chart

Minor aspects

Michael’s houses

Born the same day as Michael

More people like Michael

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Born in United States

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Born in Rabbit years

Also born on February 17

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Michael’s cards

BaZi pillars

Quick answers about Michael Jordan’s chart

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