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Michael Whelan

Michael Whelan (born June 29, 1950, Culver City, United States), aged 76, is an American illustrator. Whelan's honours include Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Inkpot Award and Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration – Hardcover.

Michael Whelan’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Michael Whelan’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Pioneer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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 65,136 American boys and 179 girls named Michael in 1950: 4th among boys and 642nd 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.

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 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

5 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Pearl, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Magnolia

Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Michael apart

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900) and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (1957) 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 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.

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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Michael creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Michael is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Michael fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Michael

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Michael

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Michael

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Michael

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Michael

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Michael

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Michael Whelan

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

Michael’s birth-night reference starIzarwarm orange · BoötesIzar, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 83.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Izar →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 24.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Culver City that night

Computed for 34.01°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Culver City at 9 p.m. that evening: Izar of Boötes, within 6.8° of the exact zenith.

Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Culver City sits at 34.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −56.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Culver City on any night.

Sun 9° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.

How unusual Michael's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mars · 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.

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Michael Whelan in 15 seconds

Cancer Sun

Hard shell, soft centre.

Michael Whelan's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 29, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Metal Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

Michael Whelan was born on June 29, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Michael Whelan's birth date, June 29, 1950, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Michael’s chart

Michael’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Mars · Square, 0° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.5° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 0.6° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 0.6° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.1° orbSun in Cancer · 7°27′☉7°Moon in Capricorn · 6°53′☽6°Mercury in Gemini · 24°17′☿24°Venus in Gemini · 2°45′♀2°Mars in Libra · 7°28′♂7°Jupiter in Pisces · 7°26′ · retrograde♃℞7°Saturn in Virgo · 14°17′♄14°Uranus in Cancer · 5°20′♅5°Neptune in Libra · 14°35′♆14°Pluto in Leo · 16°37′♇16°

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

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunoppositionMoon0.0° to 7.5° orb

    Michael’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.

  • stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.3° orb

    Michael’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Michael’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus1.7° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus1.9° to 2.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus2.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter4.1° to 5.3° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars4.4° to 5.1° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn6.8° to 6.9° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.9° to 7.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 7.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 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 ℞Sagittarius 17°20′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 7°44′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 4°25′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 12°48′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Mars 0.3°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 0.3°
  • Chiron trine Pluto 0.7°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 1.5°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.3°
  • Chiron sextile Neptune 2.8°

Michael’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Saturn

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.

  • Mars quincunx Jupiter 0.0°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Jupiter biquintile Neptune 1.1°

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Michael’s cards

Computed from June 29, 1950. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Pioneer

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2197061 (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 Niccolò Caranti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Michael Whelan at Wikipedia, michaelwhelan.com, IMDb, Instagram 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 Whelan.

Quick answers about Michael Whelan’s chart

How old is Michael Whelan?
Michael Whelan is 76 years old, born June 29, 1950 in Culver City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Michael Whelan?
Michael Whelan is a Cancer: born June 29, 1950, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is Michael Whelan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 29, 1950 birth.
What is Michael Whelan's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Michael Whelan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Michael Whelan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Michael Whelan's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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