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Misty Copeland

Misty Copeland (born September 10, 1982, Kansas City, United States), aged 44, is an American ballet dancer.

Misty Copeland’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Misty Copeland’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 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Misty in the U.S.?

#4140

US rank in 2025

~84,891

Americans share it since 1880

1977

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Misty’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Misty apart

Jack Ma (1964) and Colin Firth (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Misty, according to the stars

Core essence

Misty notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Misty is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Misty processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Misty needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Misty wants to be loved

Misty wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Misty and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Misty creates

How Misty makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Misty creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Misty is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Misty is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Misty runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Misty's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Misty sits

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Misty’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Misty

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Misty

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Misty

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Misty

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Misty

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Misty

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Standards nobody else can meet.

Misty Copeland's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 10, 1982, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Water Dog

Worries so you don't have to.

Misty Copeland was born on September 10, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.

Life Path 3

Creative, loud, warm.

Misty Copeland's birth date, September 10, 1982, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Misty’s chart

Misty’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Misty Copeland, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Moon · Square, 0.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.4° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.2° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 3.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.6° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.3° orbSaturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.7° orbSun in Virgo · 17°39′☉17°Moon in Gemini · 17°29′☽17°Mercury in Libra · 14°03′☿14°Venus in Virgo · 3°28′♀3°Mars in Scorpio · 23°42′♂23°Jupiter in Scorpio · 7°46′♃7°Saturn in Libra · 20°41′♄20°Uranus in Sagittarius · 1°01′♅1°Neptune in Sagittarius · 24°17′♆24°Pluto in Libra · 25°21′♇25°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.7° orb

    Misty’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb

    Misty’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareUranus1.8° to 3.1° orb

    Misty’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb

    Misty’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter3.8° to 4.8° orb

    Misty’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.6° to 4.7° orb

    Misty’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn6.3° to 7.0° orb

    Misty’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus7.0° to 7.6° orb

    Misty’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.9° to 14.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Misty’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 27°42′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Misty building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 26°17′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Misty is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 19°29′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Misty is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 13°24′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Misty is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 9°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Misty is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.3°
  • Eros sextile Sun 1.8°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 2.6°

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°).

Misty’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. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Misty 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 Misty’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.

  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
  • Sun quintile Uranus 1.4°
  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 2.0°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Misty Copeland, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Misty’s cards

Every card is computed from September 10, 1982, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Empress

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Misty Copeland, 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

Misty’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16204558, 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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Misty Copeland at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

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 Misty Copeland.

Quick answers about Misty Copeland’s chart

How old is Misty Copeland?
Misty Copeland is 44 years old, born September 10, 1982 in Kansas City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Misty Copeland?
Misty Copeland is a Virgo: born September 10, 1982, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog.
What is Misty Copeland's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 10, 1982 birth.
What time was Misty Copeland 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.
What is Misty Copeland's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 10, 1982 birth date.
What is Misty Copeland's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 10, 1982 birth date.
Where is Misty Copeland's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Misty Copeland's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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