Mike Colter
Mike Colter (born August 26, 1976, Columbia, United States), aged 50, is an American actor. Colter is best known for Plane and Luke Cage.
Mike Colter’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Mike
Mike Colter’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Mike in the U.S.?
#1234
US rank in 2025
~206,523
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
Mike ranked 302nd among boys and 7,826th among girls in 1976, the year of this birth, with 591 American boys and 7 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mike’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mike’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Lilac · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1976, 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 Mike apart
The shelf Mike Colter is read from: Luke Cage and Plane.
Training came by way of Calhoun County High School and University of South Carolina.
The working life starts in 2002, at 26.
On the family side, Mike Colter was married Iva Colter.
Wikipedia's editors put Mike Colter under Benedict College alumni, University of South Carolina alumni and Rutgers University alumni.
Mother Teresa (1910) and Antoine Lavoisier (1743) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Luke Cage and Plane
- Educated at
- Calhoun County High School, University of South Carolina and Rutgers University
- Working from
- 2002
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 34
What the chart says
Mike, according to the stars
Core essence
Mike notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Mike is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Mike is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Mike needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Mike wants to be loved
Mike wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Mike and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Mike creates
How Mike makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Mike 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: Mike is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Mike is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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. Mike fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Mike's birth date. Working below.
Where Mike sits
Six lines
Mike’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Mike Colter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Columbia 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 Columbia that night
Computed for 34.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Columbia at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 9.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 34.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Columbia at all: they sit past the −56.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 4% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Columbia, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Mike Colter's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Mike Colter: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Mike's chart is
Chart pattern score
30 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 planets at a critical degree · A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Mike Colter's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 26, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Mike Colter was born on August 26, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Mike Colter's birth date, August 26, 1976, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Mike’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mike Colter's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mike Colter combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Mike’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Virgo 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Mike’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
Mike’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.1° to 0.9° orb
Mike’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.6° to 0.9° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter1.0° to 1.6° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.1° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 1.4° to 15.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 3.2° to 17.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Mike’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 1°42′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 17°21′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 16°40′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 16°11′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 3°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.6°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.8°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.2°
Mike’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Mike’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.
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 2.0°
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Fellow Virgo suns
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Born in Dragon years
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- Barış Alper YılmazTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Marco PašalićCroatian-German association football player
Also born on August 26
- Mother Teresa1910
- Antoine Lavoisier1743
- Chris Pine1980
- Macaulay Culkin1980
- Katherine Johnson1918
- Dylan O'Brien1991
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Johnny FurphyAustralian basketball player (born 2004)
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- Bradley BealAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
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Other Gilded Healers
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- Jordan WalshAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Jaylen WellsAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Mike’s cards
Computed from August 26, 1976. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mike’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1058675 (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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mike Colter at Wikipedia, 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 Mike Colter.
Quick answers about Mike Colter’s chart
- How old is Mike Colter?
- Mike Colter is 50 years old, born August 26, 1976 in Columbia, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mike Colter?
- Mike Colter is a Virgo: born August 26, 1976, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Mike Colter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 26, 1976 birth.
- What is Mike Colter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mike Colter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mike Colter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mike Colter's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
