Mike Resnick
Mike Resnick (born March 5, 1942, Chicago, United States; died 2020), was an American writer. Resnick is best remembered for Kirinyaga. Resnick's honours include Hayakawa Award, Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work and Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
Mike Resnick’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Mike
Mike Resnick’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, 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
Of the names registered in 1942, Mike came 106th among boys and 2,938th among girls, carried by 2,293 American boys and 11 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mike’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
1
Soul Urge · independence
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
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
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink
The record
What sets Mike apart
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922) and Eva Mendes (1974) 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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Mike is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Mike cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Mike needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Mike wants to be loved
Mike wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Mike be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Mike creates
How Mike makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Mike creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Mike is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Mike is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Mike is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 Resnick
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Castor stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.6° above the horizon in Gemini.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 25° below the horizon, Moon down and 89% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Mike's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
Mike Resnick's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 5, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Mike Resnick was born on March 5, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Mike Resnick's birth date, March 5, 1942, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Mike’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mike Resnick's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mike Resnick combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Mike’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° 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
stableMarstrineNeptune0.0° to 0.5° orb
Mike’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareJupiter1.3° to 2.3° orb
Mike’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus2.0° to 2.6° orb
Mike’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.5° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.2° to 5.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter5.0° to 5.3° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.5° to 6.3° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.6° to 6.1° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Mike’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 9°12′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 25°55′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 18°42′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 0°26′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Uranus 0.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Venus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 2.3°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.9°
Mike’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 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 quintile Uranus 0.3°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.4°
More people like Mike
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Born in United States
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- Brian WilsonAmerican musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
- Maurice WhiteAmerican musician
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- Αrda GülerTurkish association football player (born 2005)
Born in Horse years
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Also born on March 5
- Pier Paolo Pasolini1922
- Eva Mendes1974
- Bernard Arnault1949
- Madison Beer1999
- Yoshua Bengio1964
- Taylor Marie Hill1996
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
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- Mike GesickiAmerican football player
Other Pisces Horse charts
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- Frederick ReinesAmerican physicist
- Martin KarplusAustrian-born American theoretical chemist
- Arthur KornbergAmerican biochemist
Other Radiant Healers
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- Dina LohanAmerican actress
- Chris LaneAmerican country music singer
- Lily PhillipsBritish pornographic actress (born 2001)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Sarah PalinGovernor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009
- Rudy GiulianiAmerican attorney and politician (born 1944)
- John HancockAmerican Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution
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Mike’s cards
Computed from March 5, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mike’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q913403 (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 derivative work: Fungo (talk) Barry_meets_Mike_Resnick.jpg: pyropyga, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mike Resnick at Wikipedia, web.archive.org and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mike Resnick.
Quick answers about Mike Resnick’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mike Resnick?
- Mike Resnick was a Pisces: born March 5, 1942, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Mike Resnick's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 5, 1942 birth.
- What was Mike Resnick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Mike Resnick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Mike Resnick's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mike Resnick's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
