Spike Lee
Spike Lee (born March 20, 1957, Atlanta, United States), aged 69, is an American filmmaker (born 1957). Lee has served as President of the Jury at the Cannes Festival. Lee's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award.
Spike Lee’s zodiac sign is Pisces or Aries (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.How compatible are you with Spike Lee?
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How common is the name Spike in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~128
Americans share it since 1880
1958
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Spike’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
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Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Spike apart
Chester Bennington (1976) and Fred Rogers (1928) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Spike, according to the stars
How Spike wants to be loved
Spike 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 Spike, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Spike creates
How Spike makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Spike 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: Spike is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Spike is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Spike scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Spike's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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The quick version
Pisces or Aries Sun
Spike Lee was born on a day when the Sun moved from Pisces into Aries. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Spike Lee was born on March 20, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Spike Lee's birth date, March 20, 1957, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Spike’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Spike Lee's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
Spike’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Spike Lee, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 6.8° orb
Spike’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.5° orb
Spike’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 6.4° orb
Spike’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableMoonoppositionMars0.1° to 7.5° orb
Spike’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextileUranus1.0° to 1.6° orb
Spike’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquareNeptune1.0° orb
Spike’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileMars1.3° to 2.7° orb
Spike’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileMars1.8° to 2.1° orb
Spike’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter2.2° to 4.3° orb
Spike’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.3° to 4.3° orb
Spike’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter2.3° to 3.7° orb
Spike’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableSuntrineUranus2.7° to 3.7° orb
Spike’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Spike’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 15°24′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Spike making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 4°54′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Spike is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAries 28°35′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Spike is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaPisces 15°10′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Spike needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 22°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Spike at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about 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.
- Eros trine Pluto 0.1°
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.8°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.9°
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°).
Spike’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. ☉ Sun8 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 6 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 6 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Spike is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Spike’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.
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Yod onto Neptune · Sun, Mars, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Neptune · Mercury, Mars, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
- Yod onto Sun · Neptune, Pluto, SunTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
- Yod onto Mercury · Neptune, Pluto, MercuryTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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 quincunx Neptune 0.3°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 2.2°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Spike Lee, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Spike’s cards
Every card is computed from March 20, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Spike Lee, 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
Spike’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51566, 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 Montclair Film, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Spike Lee at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Spike Lee.
Quick answers about Spike Lee’s chart
- How old is Spike Lee?
- Spike Lee is 69 years old, born March 20, 1957 in Atlanta, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Spike Lee?
- Spike Lee was born on a day when the Sun moved from Pisces into Aries. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster.
- What is Spike Lee's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 20, 1957 birth.
- What time was Spike Lee 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 Spike Lee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the March 20, 1957 birth date.
- What is Spike Lee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 20, 1957 birth date.
- Where is Spike Lee's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Spike Lee's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Uranus, Pluto; 6 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
