Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born September 23, 1920, Brooklyn, United States; died 2014), was an American actor. Rooney's honours include Emmy Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film.
Mickey Rooney’s zodiac sign was Virgo or Libra (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Mickey
How common is the name Mickey in the U.S.?
#2048
US rank in 2025
~34,173
Americans share it since 1898
1957
its peak year
The SSA recorded 67 American girls and 56 boys named Mickey in 1920: 889th among girls and 928th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mickey’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mickey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Silver
The record
What sets Mickey 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
Mickey, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Mickey needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Mickey needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Mickey wants to be loved
Mickey wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Mickey gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Mickey creates
How Mickey 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. Mickey 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: Mickey is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Mickey 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Mickey 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 Mickey's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Mickey Rooney
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Sadr, in Cygnus, 88.9° up.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.
Sun 24° below the horizon, Moon up and 84% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Mickey's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · 3-planet stellium in Libra · 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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Virgo or Libra Sun
Mickey Rooney 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.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Mickey Rooney was born on September 23, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Mickey Rooney's birth date, September 23, 1920, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Mickey’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mickey Rooney's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
Mickey’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Aquarius 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
stableMercurysextileMars0.2° to 1.1° orb
Mickey’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.2° to 0.9° orb
Mickey’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.4° to 2.0° orb
Mickey’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMercurysquarePluto2.1° to 3.7° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto2.9° to 3.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.1° to 3.3° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn4.3° to 4.8° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.2° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter6.3° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Mickey’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 8°33′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 3°53′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 9°09′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 15°50′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 7°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Pluto 0.3°
- Eros square Pluto 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.1°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.0°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 2.9°
Mickey’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Mickey’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Mars 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.5°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 2.3°
Mickey’s family here
One relative of Mickey Rooney also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on September 23
- Bruce Springsteen1949
- Ray Charles1930
- Julio Iglesias1943
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Leonid MikhelsonRussian businessman
- Martin ViessmannGerman businessman
- Hasso PlattnerGerman billionaire businessman and philanthropist (born 1944)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Charles WarrenAmerican legal scholar
- Lisel MuellerGerman-American poet and translator
- Merlo J. PuseyAmerican journalist and nonfiction writer
From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
Mickey’s cards
Computed from September 23, 1920. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mickey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104081 (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 Studio publicity still, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mickey Rooney at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mickey Rooney.
Quick answers about Mickey Rooney’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mickey Rooney?
- Mickey Rooney 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 was Mickey Rooney's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 23, 1920 birth.
- How tall was Mickey Rooney?
- Mickey Rooney was 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Mickey Rooney's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Mickey Rooney's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Mickey Rooney's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mickey Rooney's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
