Mikel Merino
Mikel Merino (born June 22, 1996, Pamplona, Spain), aged 30, is a Spanish footballer (born 1996). Merino has played for Arsenal F.C..
Mikel Merino’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Mikel
Mikel Merino’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Mikel in the U.S.?
#1930
US rank in 2025
~12,554
Americans share it since 1882
2004
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1996, Mikel came 839th among boys and 4,410th among girls, carried by 170 American boys and 24 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mikel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mikel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, 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 Mikel apart
The working life starts in 2014, at 18.
On the family side, Mikel Merino was born to Ángel Miguel Merino Torres.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Mikel Merino: CA Osasuna B players, Footballers from Pamplona and Olympic silver medalists for Spain.
The same date carries Rodri. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Working from
- 2014
- Sport
- association football
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Languages
- Spanish
- Wikipedia editions
- 57
What the chart says
Mikel, according to the stars
Core essence
Mikel feels the room before entering it. The core of Mikel is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Mikel, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Mikel 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 Mikel needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Mikel wants to be loved
Mikel wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Mikel like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Mikel creates
How Mikel makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Mikel 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: Mikel is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Mikel 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Mikel scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Mikel's birth date. Working below.
Where Mikel sits
Six lines
Mikel’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Mikel Merino
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pamplona 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 Pamplona that night
Computed for 42.82°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Pamplona at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.5° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 42.8°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 Pamplona at all: they sit past the −47.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -7° below the horizon, Moon up and 36% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Mikel's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · Venus retrograde · 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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Mikel Merino's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 22, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Rat
Fire RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Mikel Merino was born on June 22, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Mikel Merino's birth date, June 22, 1996, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Mikel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mikel Merino's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mikel Merino combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Mikel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° 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
stableMoonsquareMercury0.0° to 6.0° orb
Mikel’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb
Mikel’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.9° to 2.9° orb
Mikel’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineUranus2.8° to 3.5° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.3° to 5.2° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn5.1° to 6.0° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto5.7° to 6.4° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.8° to 5.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.2° to 7.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Mikel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 8°12′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 4°11′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 8°39′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 18°01′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.1°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 1.4°
- Eros square Mars 1.7°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.6°
- Ceres opposition Mars 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 2.8°
Mikel’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Mikel’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 quincunx Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.6°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.7°
Born the same day as Mikel
Rodri was born on June 22, 1996 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 42.8°N, the sky above Pamplona stops at −47.2° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Mikel
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More charts like Mikel’s
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on June 22
- Meryl Streep1949
- Cyndi Lauper1953
- Madeleine Vionnet1876
- Lee Min-ho1987
- Adam Schiff1960
- Johnny Devenanzio1982
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Jessica ChastainAmerican actress and producer
- Isabel Martínez de PerónFirst female president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976
- Matt LeBlancAmerican actor
Other Cancer Rat charts
- Johnny WeirAmerican figure skater and television commentator
- Jessica WhiteAmerican actress and model
- RodriSpanish association football player (born 1996)
- Eva Marie SaintAmerican actress (born 1924)
Other Gilded Strategists
- Martin BalsamAmerican actor
- Erich von StroheimAustrian actor and director
- Gene KellyAmerican dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer
- Wilford BrimleyAmerican actor and singer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Keyes BeechAmerican journalist
- Lucy MorganAmerican journalist
- Daniel KrausAmerican novelist, writer, editor and filmmaker
From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Mikel’s cards
Computed from June 22, 1996. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mikel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17612631 (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 Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mikel Merino at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mikel Merino.
Quick answers about Mikel Merino’s chart
- How old is Mikel Merino?
- Mikel Merino is 30 years old, born June 22, 1996 in Pamplona, Spain.
- What zodiac sign is Mikel Merino?
- Mikel Merino is a Cancer: born June 22, 1996, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Mikel Merino's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 22, 1996 birth.
- How tall is Mikel Merino?
- Mikel Merino is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Mikel Merino's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mikel Merino's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mikel Merino's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mikel Merino's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
