How old is Michael S. Schmidt?

Michael S. Schmidt is 43 years old, born September 23, 1983 in Nyack, United States.

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 is Michael S. Schmidt's Life Path number?

Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.

What is Michael S. Schmidt's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Gemini at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.

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.

Michael S. Schmidt

Michael S. Schmidt (born September 23, 1983, Nyack, United States), aged 43, 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), Chinese zodiac is Water Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

Your match with Michael

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

Michael ranked 1st among boys and 385th among girls in 1983, the year of this birth, with 68,004 American boys and 577 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Michael’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · sensing what is coming

Soul Urge · being needed

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3).

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 · 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

The record

What sets Michael apart

Bruce Springsteen (1949) and Ray Charles (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working 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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Nyack that night

Computed for 41.09°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Sadr stood nearest the zenith over Nyack at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.2° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 41.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −48.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Nyack on any night.

The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 24° down.

How unusual Michael's chart is

Chart pattern score

42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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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.

What the Pig means →

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.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Michael’s chart

The tightest major aspect in Michael S. Schmidt's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
Three planets, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
Six of the ten planets are in Fire signs.

Michael’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Aries depending on the hour.

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.

Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

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

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
stableVenustrineNeptune2.0° to 2.3° orb
stableMarssextilePluto2.0° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableVenussextilePluto3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 2°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 14°13′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 3°24′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 17°13′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 21°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

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°

Michael’s dominant planets

1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 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.

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

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Life Path numbers explained →

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Michael’s cards

Computed from September 23, 1983. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

8 · Achiever

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6834083 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Michael S. Schmidt.

Quick answers about Michael S. Schmidt’s chart

How old is Michael S. Schmidt?: Michael S. Schmidt is 43 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.
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 is Michael S. Schmidt's Life Path number?: Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Michael S. Schmidt's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Gemini at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.