Michel duCille
Michel duCille (born January 24, 1956, Kingston, Jamaica; died 2014), was an American photojournalist. duCille's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
Michel duCille’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Michel
Michel duCille’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Michel in the U.S.?
#4642
US rank in 2025
~14,094
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
In 1956, 223 American boys and 42 girls were registered Michel — 507th among boys and 1,653rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Michel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, 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 Michel apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography came in 1986, when Michel duCille was 30.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction.
On the family side, Michel duCille was married Nikki Kahn.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Kingston, Jamaica, American male photographers and Jamaican emigrants to the United States.
Michio Kaku (1947) and Sharon Tate (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (2008), Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (1988) and Journalist of the Year (1988)
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Michel, according to the stars
Core essence
Michel is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Michel is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Michel wants to be loved
Michel wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Michel, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Michel creates
How Michel makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Michel creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Michel is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Michel is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Michel leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Michel has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Michel's birth date. Working below.
Where Michel sits
Six lines
Michel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Michel duCille
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kingston 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 Kingston that night
Computed for 17.97°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Kingston at 9 p.m. that evening: Tianguan of Taurus, within 7.5° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Kingston sits at 18.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon up and 91% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Kingston, Jamaica
The death is recorded at Bong County, Liberia in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Michel duCille: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Michel's chart is
Chart pattern score
48 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Neptune · 4 planets at a critical degree · No Earth planets
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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Michel duCille's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 24, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Michel duCille was born on January 24, 1956, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Michel duCille's birth date, January 24, 1956, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Michel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michel duCille's date-only chart is Uranus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Michel duCille combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Michel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableUranussquareNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb
Michel’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb
Michel’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
Michel’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableVenussquareMars1.5° to 2.0° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableMercurysextileMars2.2° to 3.9° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn2.3° to 3.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune2.8° to 3.8° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Michel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 5°46′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 19°56′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 14°52′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 28°58′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 5°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 2.1°
Michel’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Michel’s chart
T-square onto Neptune · Sun, Uranus, NeptuneAn 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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
More people like Michel
Other photographers
- Don Bartletti1947
- Deanne Fitzmaurice1957
- David C. Turnley1955
- Boman Irani1959
- Jessica Lange1949
- Anthony Suau1956
Born in Jamaica
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- Grace JonesJamaican singer, model and actress
- ShaggyJamaican reggae musician
- Matt PeartJamaican-born American football offensive tackle
- Ziggy MarleyJamaican reggae musician
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- Kenzaburō ŌeJapanese writer and Nobel Laureate
- Alan J. HeegerAmerican chemist, physicist
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Born in Goat years
- Jim MurrayAmerican journalist
- Alan TaylorAmerican historian
- Michael MossAmerican journalist
Also born on January 24
- Michio Kaku1947
- Sharon Tate1943
- Justin Baldoni1984
- Frankie Grande1983
- Tatyana Ali1979
- Mischa Barton1986
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Jameela JamilBritish actress
- Keely HodgkinsonEnglish athlete specialising in the 800 metres, born 2002
- KaiSouth Korean singer
Other Aquarius Goat charts
- Forrest GanderPoet, essayist, novelist, critic, translator (born 1956)
- Eric FonerAmerican historian (born 1943)
- Josh FriedmanAmerican screenwriter
- William Randolph Hearst Jr.American newspaper editor
Other Gilded Scholars
- Logan HallAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Ja'Sir TaylorAmerican football player
- Rashee RiceAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Matt WaletzkoAmerican football offensive tackle
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Josh ShapiroAmerican politician (born 1973)
- Dick CheneyVice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
- Grigori RasputinRussian mystic
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Michel’s cards
Computed from January 24, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6836631 (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 Michel duCille at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Michel duCille.
Quick answers about Michel duCille’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Michel duCille?
- Michel duCille was an Aquarius: born January 24, 1956, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Michel duCille's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 24, 1956 birth.
- What was Michel duCille's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Michel duCille's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Michel duCille's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Michel duCille's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
