Michael Porter Jr.
Michael Porter Jr. (born June 29, 1998, Columbia, United States), aged 28, is an American basketball player (born 1998). Porter has played for Missouri Tigers men's basketball.
Michael Porter Jr.’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Michael
Michael Porter Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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 36,618 American boys and 128 girls named Michael in 1998: 1st among boys and 1,360th 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
8 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Pearl · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1998, 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 Porter Jr. was taught at Nathan Hale High School and Father Augustine Tolton Regional Catholic High School.
Michael Porter Jr. was 20 when the work began in 2018.
Wikipedia files Michael Porter Jr. under Sportspeople from Columbia, Missouri, Basketball players from Missouri and Missouri Tigers men's basketball players.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900) and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (1957) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Nathan Hale High School, Father Augustine Tolton Regional Catholic High School and University of Missouri
- Working from
- 2018
- Sport
- basketball
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 25
What the chart says
Michael, according to the stars
Core essence
Michael feels the room before entering it. The core of Michael is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Michael, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Michael is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Michael needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Michael wants to be loved
Michael wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Michael like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Michael is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
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 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 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 Porter Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Columbia 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 Columbia that night
Computed for 38.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Columbia at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Columbia sits at 39.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −51.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Columbia on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 34% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 4° down.
How unusual Michael's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Saturn
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
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Michael Porter Jr.'s Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 29, 1998, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerCourage before caution.
Michael Porter Jr. was born on June 29, 1998, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Michael Porter Jr.'s birth date, June 29, 1998, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Porter Jr.'s date-only chart is Venus opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Michael Porter Jr. combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Virgo 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
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.2° orb
Michael’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Michael’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.3° to 0.4° orb
Michael’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareJupiter1.7° to 2.4° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.7° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.1° to 4.7° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune4.2° to 5.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.3° to 6.5° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.5° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 2.9° to 15.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Michael’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 12°33′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 20°21′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 13°39′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 15°57′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 21°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Uranus 0.5°
- Eros square Uranus 1.6°
Michael’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Michael’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Neptune, SaturnAn 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.
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.9°
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Also born on June 29
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
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Other Cancer Tiger charts
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Other Radiant Strategists
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- Bobby Brown IIIAmerican football player (born 2000)
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Famous people with Life Path 8
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Michael’s cards
Computed from June 29, 1998. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28810445 (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 All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michael Porter Jr. at Wikipedia and Instagram.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Michael Porter Jr..
Quick answers about Michael Porter Jr.’s chart
- How old is Michael Porter Jr.?
- Michael Porter Jr. is 28 years old, born June 29, 1998 in Columbia, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Michael Porter Jr.?
- Michael Porter Jr. is a Cancer: born June 29, 1998, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Michael Porter Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 29, 1998 birth.
- How tall is Michael Porter Jr.?
- Michael Porter Jr. is 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Michael Porter Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Michael Porter Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Michael Porter Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Michael Porter Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
