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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rat, with 
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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 1880
2004
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Mikel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mikel sits
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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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pamplona on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Mikel Merino, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Virgo 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.
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
Mikel’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussextilePluto2.9° orb
Mikel’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.0° orb
Mikel’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.9° orb
Mikel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.3° to 5.2° orb
Mikel’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareSaturn5.1° to 6.0° orb
Mikel’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionPluto5.7° to 6.4° orb
Mikel’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.8° to 5.9° orb
Mikel’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.2° to 7.3° orb
Mikel’s affections and drive act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLibra 8°12′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Mikel is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 4°11′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Mikel is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosVirgo 8°39′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Mikel is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaAries 18°01′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Mikel feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Mikel guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Mikel’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Mikel is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Mikel’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mikel Merino, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Mikel
Rodri was born on June 22, 1996 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Mikel’s cards
Every card is computed from June 22, 1996, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Mikel Merino, 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
Mikel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17612631, 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 Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mikel Merino at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat.
- 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.
- What time was Mikel Merino 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.
- 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 from the June 22, 1996 birth date.
- What is Mikel Merino's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 22, 1996 birth date.
- 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.
