Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6, 1931, Berlin, Germany; died 2014), was an American director and comedian. Nichols's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Film, Academy Award for Best Director and Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical.
Mike Nichols’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.How compatible are you with Mike Nichols?
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Mike Nichols’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
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~206,523
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
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Mike’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Mike, according to the stars
Core essence
Mike does not do surface. The core of Mike is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Mike is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Mike wants to be loved
Mike wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Mike even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Mike creates
How Mike 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. Mike 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: Mike 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Mike is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Mike 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 Mike's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mike sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Berlin on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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Mike Nichols at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Mike Nichols's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 6, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Mike Nichols was born on November 6, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22Structure for the many.
Mike Nichols's birth date, November 6, 1931, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Mike’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mike Nichols' date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Mike Nichols combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Mike’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Mike Nichols, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.5° to 3.0° orb
Mike’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
Mike’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareNeptune2.3° to 3.0° orb
Mike’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.7° to 4.2° orb
Mike’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
Mike’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.0° to 4.3° orb
Mike’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrineUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb
Mike’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrinePluto5.7° to 7.0° orb
Mike’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussquarePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb
Mike’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.3° to 6.8° orb
Mike’s affections and drive act as one.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 6.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Mike’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 21°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Mike building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresScorpio 25°21′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Mike is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosSagittarius 28°20′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Mike attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaLeo 20°54′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Mike at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Mike carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 0.0°
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.0°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 2.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Mike’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Mike is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Mike’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Scorpio · 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mike Nichols, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Mike
Other actors
- Leslie Caron1931
- Marisa Pavan1932
- Stephen Boyd1931
- Anouk Aimée1932
- Ian Holm1931
- Joel Grey1932
Born in Germany
- Rudolf Ludwig MössbauerGerman nuclear physicist and Noble Prize in Physics
- Robert HuberGerman chemist (1937-)
- André PrevinGerman-American conductor, pianist, and composer
- Gerhard ErtlGerman physicist
- Anne FrankGerman-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim
- Bert HölldoblerGerman biologist
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Mike’s cards
Every card is computed from November 6, 1931, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Mike Nichols, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Mike’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51537, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by McManus - ebay, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mike Nichols at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mike Nichols.
Quick answers about Mike Nichols’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mike Nichols?
- Mike Nichols was a Scorpio: born November 6, 1931, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat.
- What was Mike Nichols's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 6, 1931 birth.
- What time was Mike Nichols born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Mike Nichols's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the November 6, 1931 birth date.
- What was Mike Nichols's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 6, 1931 birth date.
- Where was Mike Nichols's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mike Nichols's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
