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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Mike
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.
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
The SSA recorded 693 American boys and 5 girls named Mike in 1931: 190th among boys and 4,773rd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mike’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
11
Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
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 record
What sets Mike apart
Sally Field (1946) and Ethan Hawke (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Mike sits
Six lines
Mike’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Nichols
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Berlin 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 Berlin that night
Computed for 52.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Berlin was Caph, in Cassiopeia, 83.5° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
Berlin sits at 52.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −37.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Berlin on any night.
The Moon, 14% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
How unusual Mike's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Uranus
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 →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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 22 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.0° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableVenustrinePluto5.7° to 7.0° orb
stableUranussquarePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.3° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 21°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 25°21′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 28°20′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 20°54′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Mike’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Mike’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.7°
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
More charts like Mike’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf24th president of Liberia
- Nadine GordimerSouth African writer
- Evo MoralesPresident of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019
Born in Goat years
- Morrie RyskindAmerican activist and entertainer
- Joseph SchwantnerAmerican composer (born 1943)
- Barbara KingsolverAmerican author, poet and essayist
Also born on November 6
- Sally Field1946
- Ethan Hawke1970
- Emma Stone1988
- Conchita Wurst1988
- Shayne Lamas1985
- Rebecca Romijn1972
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Lark VoorhiesAmerican actress
- Chase StokesAmerican actor
- Nick ViallAmerican reality television participant
Other Scorpio Goat charts
- Salvatore CascioItalian actor (born 1979)
- Bee VangAmerican actor
- Klaus HasselmannGerman climate researcher, meteorologist, and oceanologist (born 1931)
- Dickinson W. RichardsAmerican physician, Nobel Prize recipient
Other Evergreen Architects
- Bertha von SuttnerAustrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
- Samuel Eliot MorisonUnited States admiral and historian
- Peggy NoonanAmerican author and conservative columnist
- Howard LindsayAmerican theatrical producer, director, playwright, librettist and actor
Famous people with Life Path 22
- Liu YifeiChinese-American actress and singer
- Chuck SchumerAmerican politician (born 1950)
- Anjelica HustonAmerican actress (born 1951)
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Mike’s cards
Computed from November 6, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
22 · Master Builder♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mike’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51537 (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 McManus - ebay, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mike Nichols 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 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.
- 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 was Mike Nichols's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Mike Nichols's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
