Michael Ramirez
Michael Ramirez (born May 11, 1961, Tokyo, Japan), aged 65, is an American cartoonist. Ramirez's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, Sigma Delta Chi Award and Reuben Award.
Michael Ramirez’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Michael
Michael Ramirez’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
Of the names registered in 1961, Michael came 1st among boys and 546th among girls, carried by 86,974 American boys and 324 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michael’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
The record
What sets Michael apart
Salvador Dalí (1904) and Richard Feynman (1918) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Michael, according to the stars
Core essence
Michael is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Michael is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Michael wants to be loved
Michael wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Michael creates
How Michael makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Michael builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Michael is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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 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.
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 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 Ramirez
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tokyo 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 Tokyo that night
Computed for 35.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Tokyo was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 85.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
From 35.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −54.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Tokyo on any night.
Sun 24° below the horizon, Moon down and 12% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Michael's chart is
Chart pattern score
30 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Michael Ramirez's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 11, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Michael Ramirez was born on May 11, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Michael Ramirez's birth date, May 11, 1961, 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 Ramirez's date-only chart is Mercury trine Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Michael Ramirez combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Pisces or Aries 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
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 2.1° orb
Michael’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercurysextileMars1.0° to 2.5° orb
Michael’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareUranus1.1° to 2.0° orb
Michael’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.5° to 3.1° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.6° to 5.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.9° to 4.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.9° to 6.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.9° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 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.
⚷ ChironPisces 6°16′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 22°15′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 5°07′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 26°06′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 10°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.5°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.3°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.7°
- Eros square Mars 2.5°
Michael’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun
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.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.5°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.7°
More people like Michael
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- Blair Kamin1957
Born in Japan
- Yūto NagatomoJapanese association football player (born 1986)
- Kazuo IshiguroBritish novelist (born 1954)
- Hiroshi Mikitanifounder of Rakuten
- Yoshitomo NaraJapanese artist
- Shōgo TaniguchiJapanese association football player
- Shin Dong-jooKorean/Japanese businessperson
More charts like Michael’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Sam AltmanAmerican venture capitalist
- Channing TatumAmerican actor, dancer and model
- Sam SmithBritish singer-songwriter
Born in Ox years
- Abigail JohnsonAmerican businesswoman, business executive, heiress, billionaire
- Finneas O'ConnellAmerican musician and actor
- Luol DengSouth Sudanese-British basketball player
Also born on May 11
- Salvador Dalí1904
- Richard Feynman1918
- Camilo José Cela1916
- Edsger W. Dijkstra1930
- Valentino1932
- Lana Condor1997
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- James CameronCanadian filmmaker and explorer
- Mila KunisAmerican actress
- CherAmerican singer, actress and television personality
Other Taurus Ox charts
- FernandinhoBrazilian footballer
- Dennis RodmanAmerican basketball player
- J BalvinColombian singer
- BamBamThai rapper and singer
Other Evergreen Guardians
- Carles PuyolSpanish footballer (born 1978)
- RaphinhaBrazilian association football player (born 1996)
- Cole PalmerEnglish footballer (born 2002)
- Virat KohliIndian cricket player
Famous people with Life Path 6
- John LennonBritish musician
- Kofi Annan7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Pablo NerudaChilean poet and politician
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Michael’s cards
Computed from May 11, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6833738 (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 Ramirez 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 Ramirez.
Quick answers about Michael Ramirez’s chart
- How old is Michael Ramirez?
- Michael Ramirez is 65 years old, born May 11, 1961 in Tokyo, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Michael Ramirez?
- Michael Ramirez is a Taurus: born May 11, 1961, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Michael Ramirez's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 11, 1961 birth.
- What is Michael Ramirez's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Michael Ramirez's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Michael Ramirez's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Michael Ramirez's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
