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Michael S. Schmidt

Michael S. Schmidt (born September 23, 1983, Nyack, United States), aged 42, is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Schmidt's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and Livingston Award.

Michael S. Schmidt’s zodiac sign is Virgo or Libra (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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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

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Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 5

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

—

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Sapphire, Your planetary stone, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 🪷 Lotus

Lavender · Soft pink

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What the chart says

Michael, according to the stars

The vibe

Underneath, Michael runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Michael needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Michael wants to be loved

Michael wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Michael openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

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 warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Michael S. Schmidt

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

Michael’s birth-night reference starSadryellow-white · CygnusSadr, in Cygnus. A yellow-white star, 88.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Sadr →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 20.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Michael S. Schmidt in 15 seconds

Virgo or Libra Sun

Michael S. Schmidt was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Water Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

Michael S. Schmidt was born on September 23, 1983, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Michael S. Schmidt's birth date, September 23, 1983, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Michael’s chart

Michael’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Michael S. Schmidt, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.2° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.5° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.1° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.5° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun in Libra · 0°03′☉0°Moon in Aries · 15°49′☽15°Mercury in Virgo · 16°30′ · retrograde☿℞16°Venus in Leo · 24°23′♀24°Mars in Leo · 26°03′♂26°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 5°32′♃5°Saturn in Scorpio · 2°52′♄2°Uranus in Sagittarius · 5°46′♅5°Neptune in Sagittarius · 26°31′♆26°Pluto in Libra · 28°18′♇28°

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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Square 90°
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Placements

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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.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune0.2° to 0.8° orb

    Michael’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.2° to 0.3° orb

    Michael’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars1.5° to 1.8° orb

    Michael’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° orb

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

  • stableVenustrineNeptune2.0° to 2.3° orb

    Michael’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarssextilePluto2.0° to 2.5° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb

    Michael’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussextilePluto3.8° to 4.0° orb

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

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.5° to 4.6° orb

    Michael’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 2.5° to 14.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 3.9° to 16.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 4.2° to 16.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire6 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 2°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Michael turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 14°13′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Michael is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ♡ ErosLeo 3°24′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

    Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Michael loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 17°13′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Michael carrying stress in the body until it is named.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 21°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Michael at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Eros square Saturn 0.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.7°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 2.1°
  • Eros trine Uranus 2.4°
  • Chiron opposition Jupiter 2.7°
  • Chiron trine Sun 2.8°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.9°

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, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°

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

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Michael’s cards

Every card is computed from September 23, 1983, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

Strength

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Michael S. Schmidt, 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 Q6834083, 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 Andrew Lih, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Michael S. Schmidt at Wikipedia, nytimes.com and X.

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 S. Schmidt.

Quick answers about Michael S. Schmidt’s chart

How old is Michael S. Schmidt?
Michael S. Schmidt is 42 years old, born September 23, 1983 in Nyack, United States.
What zodiac sign is Michael S. Schmidt?
Michael S. Schmidt was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Pig.
What is Michael S. Schmidt's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 23, 1983 birth.
What time was Michael S. Schmidt 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 is Michael S. Schmidt's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 23, 1983 birth date.
What is Michael S. Schmidt's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 23, 1983 birth date.
Where is Michael S. Schmidt's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Michael S. Schmidt's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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