Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov (born January 27, 1948, Riga, Latvia), aged 78, is a Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor. Baryshnikov's honours include Order of the Three Stars, Emmy Award and Kennedy Center Honors.
Mikhail Baryshnikov’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Mikhail
Mikhail Baryshnikov’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Mikhail in the U.S.?
#1884
US rank in 2025
~4,158
Americans share it since 1968
2015
its peak year
US records hold Mikhail from 1968 onward, though not for 1948 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2015 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mikhail’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mikhail’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 Mikhail apart
Mikhail Baryshnikov took the Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1973, at 25.
The classrooms behind this chart: Riga ballet school and Riga Secondary School No. 22.
The working life starts in 1968, at 20.
Mikhail Baryshnikov was married Lisa Rinehart and raised 2 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Mikhail Baryshnikov: National Ballet of Canada dancers, Dancers from Riga and Mariinsky Ballet dancers.
Rosamund Pike (1979) and Alan Cumming (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Riga ballet school, Riga Secondary School No. 22 and Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet
- Awards
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1973), Praemium Imperiale (2017) and Kennedy Center Honors (2000)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1968
- Citizenship
- United States and Soviet Union
- Languages
- English, Russian and Latvian
- Wikipedia editions
- 65
What the chart says
Mikhail, according to the stars
Core essence
Mikhail is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Mikhail is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Mikhail needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Mikhail needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Mikhail wants to be loved
Mikhail wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Mikhail, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Mikhail creates
How Mikhail makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Mikhail creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Mikhail is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Mikhail is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Mikhail channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Mikhail's birth date. Working below.
Where Mikhail sits
Six lines
Mikhail’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Mikhail Baryshnikov
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Riga 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 Riga that night
Computed for 56.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Riga was Mirfak, in Perseus, 80.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 56.9°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Riga at all: they sit past the −33.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 26° below the horizon, Moon up and 97% lit at full moon.
How unusual Mikhail's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · Mars retrograde
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 →Mikhail Baryshnikov at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Mikhail Baryshnikov's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 27, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Mikhail Baryshnikov was born on January 27, 1948, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Mikhail Baryshnikov's birth date, January 27, 1948, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Mikhail’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mikhail Baryshnikov's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Mikhail’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 29° Leo 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
stableMoonoppositionMercury0.1° to 6.9° orb
Mikhail’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.1° to 1.7° orb
Mikhail’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.1° to 0.4° orb
Mikhail’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.5° to 1.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.6° to 2.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.0° to 2.2° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.3° orb
stableVenusoppositionMars5.3° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.3° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.4° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Mikhail’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 23°16′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 0°23′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius or Pisces during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 21°33′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 10°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.0°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Chiron square Mercury 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.6°
- Chiron square Saturn 3.0°
Mikhail’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Mikhail’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.
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.8°
- Sun quincunx Mars 1.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.6°
More people like Mikhail
Other screenwriters
- Lawrence Kasdan1949
- John Varley1947
- William Gibson1948
- Glenn Close1947
- Agnieszka Holland1948
- Marsha Norman1947
Born in Latvia
- Viktors LorencsSoviet-Latvian actor, screenwriter
- Kristaps PorziņģisLatvian basketball player (born 1995)
- Wilhelm OstwaldBaltic German chemist
More charts like Mikhail’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Jalyn HolmesAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Tristan WirfsAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Connor HeywardAmerican football player (born 1999)
Born in Pig years
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- Ronnie RadkeAmerican musician
Also born on January 27
- Rosamund Pike1979
- Alan Cumming1965
- Mike Patton1968
- Georgina Rodríguez1994
- Liu Wen1988
- Jake Pavelka1978
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Alejandro AmenábarSpanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer
- Gustavo SantaolallaArgentine musician and composer
- Redd FoxxAmerican stand-up comedian and actor
Other Aquarius Pig charts
- Hannah GodwinAmerican television personality
- Paul MescalIrish actor
- Gabriel MachtAmerican actor (born 1972)
- Pierre GaslyFrench racing driver
Other Gilded Architects
- Johnny CarsonAmerican talk show host and comedian
- Carmen De LavalladeAmerican dancer
- Lily TomlinAmerican actress
- Twyla TharpAmerican dancer and choreographer
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Bernard KatzGerman-British biophysicist
- Ada YonathIsraeli chemist
- William FaulknerAmerican writer
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Mikhail’s cards
Computed from January 27, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mikhail’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295420 (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 Saeima, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mikhail Baryshnikov 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 Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Quick answers about Mikhail Baryshnikov’s chart
- How old is Mikhail Baryshnikov?
- Mikhail Baryshnikov is 78 years old, born January 27, 1948 in Riga, Latvia.
- What zodiac sign is Mikhail Baryshnikov?
- Mikhail Baryshnikov is an Aquarius: born January 27, 1948, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Mikhail Baryshnikov's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1948 birth.
- What is Mikhail Baryshnikov's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mikhail Baryshnikov's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mikhail Baryshnikov's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mikhail Baryshnikov's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
