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Michael Madsen

Michael Madsen (born September 25, 1957, Chicago, United States; died 2025), was an American actor.

Michael Madsen’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Michael Madsen’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

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) × cardinal 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

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

11 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Blush · Scarlet

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.

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 cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Michael creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

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 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: 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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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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The quick version

Libra Sun

Charming. Still deciding.

Michael Madsen's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 25, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it. 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.

Fire Rooster

Says what everyone was thinking.

Michael Madsen was born on September 25, 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 11

Sees what the rest missed.

Michael Madsen's birth date, September 25, 1957, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.

What stands out in Michael’s chart

Michael’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Michael Madsen, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 6° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.5° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.7° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.1° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.2° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.4° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.3° orbSun in Libra · 2°21′Moon in Libra · 28°59′28°Mercury in Virgo · 14°31′14°Venus in Scorpio · 13°25′13°Mars in Libra · 0°59′Jupiter in Libra · 10°00′Saturn in Sagittarius · 9°15′Uranus in Leo · 10°27′10°Neptune in Scorpio · 1°14′Pluto in Virgo · 1°12′

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.

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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.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° orb

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

  • stableJupitersextileUranus0.4° to 0.6° orb

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

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn0.7° to 0.8° orb

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

  • stableMercurysextileVenus1.0° to 1.2° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMars1.2° to 1.5° orb

    Michael’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus1.2° orb

    Michael’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussquareUranus2.4° to 3.5° orb

    Michael’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn4.8° to 5.7° orb

    Michael’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 4.2° to 18.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunconjunctionJupiterorb from 7.3° to 8.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ChironAquarius 12°37′ (moves 0.03° 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.

  • CeresCancer 18°34′ (moves 0.30° 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.

  • ErosLibra 14°15′ (moves 0.81° over the day)

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Michael is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • HygieaAries 15°42′ (moves 0.19° 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 13°32′ (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 orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.1°
  • Chiron square Venus 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.0°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.2°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 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. 1. Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Mercury5 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. Jupiter3 pts

    disposes Saturn; 2 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. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mars, JupiterThree 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.

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.

  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.7°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Michael Madsen, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Michael’s cards

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Birth tarot card

Judgement

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

yin Fire

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yin Earth

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Metal

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Michael Madsen, 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 Q220584, 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 Ivan Bessedin, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Michael Madsen 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Michael Madsen.

Quick answers about Michael Madsen’s chart

What zodiac sign was Michael Madsen?
Michael Madsen was a Libra: born September 25, 1957, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster.
What was Michael Madsen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 25, 1957 birth.
What time was Michael Madsen 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 Madsen's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the September 25, 1957 birth date.
What was Michael Madsen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 25, 1957 birth date.
Where was Michael Madsen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Michael Madsen's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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