Michael Parks
Michael Parks (born November 17, 1943, Detroit, United States; died 2022), was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and educator. Parks's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Michael Parks’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Michael
Michael Parks’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, 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
In 1943, 24,745 American boys and 188 girls were registered Michael — 10th among boys and 553rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michael’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
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
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
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 1943, 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 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting came in 1987, when Michael Parks was 44.
Michael Parks was taught at University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy.
On Wikipedia the categories read University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy alumni, Journalists from Detroit and Writers from Detroit.
Martin Scorsese (1942) and Cyril Ramaphosa (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1987)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
Michael, according to the stars
Core essence
Michael does not do surface. The core of Michael is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Michael is earned slowly and never given lightly.
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 make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Michael creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Michael is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Michael is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Michael scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Parks
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Detroit at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.3° above the horizon in Pegasus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
Detroit sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Detroit at all: they sit past the −47.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 68% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 31° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Detroit, United States
The death is recorded at Pasadena, Los Angeles County in 2022.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Michael Parks: 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
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No Earth planets · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Michael Parks's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 17, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Michael Parks was born on November 17, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Michael Parks's birth date, November 17, 1943, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Parks' date-only chart is Venus trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Earth.
- Michael Parks combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Cancer or Leo 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
stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Michael’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 6.3° orb
Michael’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableVenussextilePluto0.4° to 1.5° orb
Michael’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.6° to 0.7° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter1.1° to 2.0° orb
stableUranussextilePluto1.4° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.9° to 3.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 4.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn6.0° to 6.2° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Michael’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 14°02′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 7°57′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 3°35′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 14°34′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.0°
- Ceres square Venus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.5°
Michael’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Neptune; 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.
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.6°
More people like Michael
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Fellow Scorpio suns
- Hedy Lamarr
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- Friedrich MerzGerman politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Born in Goat years
- Christina RicciAmerican actress
- Julio IglesiasSpanish singer and lawyer
- Kate HudsonAmerican actress and singer
Also born on November 17
- Martin Scorsese1942
- Cyril Ramaphosa1952
- Eugene Paul Wigner1902
- Rachel McAdams1978
- Danny DeVito1944
- Sōichirō Honda1906
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Bruno GanzSwiss actor
- John MegnaAmerican actor
- Phillip AlfordAmerican actor
Other Scorpio Goat charts
- Bee VangAmerican actor
- Mike NicholsAmerican director and comedian
- Klaus HasselmannGerman climate researcher, meteorologist, and oceanologist (born 1931)
- Dickinson W. RichardsAmerican physician, Nobel Prize recipient
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Carol GreiderAmerican molecular biologist
- Yitzhak RabinIsraeli politician, statesman and general
- David GrossAmerican particle physicist and string theorist
- Roy J. GlauberAmerican theoretical physicist
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Tom WellingAmerican actor, director, and model
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- Ne-YoAmerican R&B singer
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Michael’s cards
Computed from November 17, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21063673 (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.
The same Michael Parks at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Michael Parks.
Quick answers about Michael Parks’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Michael Parks?
- Michael Parks was a Scorpio: born November 17, 1943, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Michael Parks's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 17, 1943 birth.
- What was Michael Parks's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Michael Parks's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Michael Parks's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Michael Parks's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
