A. Scott Berg
A. Scott Berg (born December 4, 1949, Norwalk, United States), aged 76, is a Biographer, journalist. Berg is best known for Kate Remembered. Berg's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, National Book Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
A. Scott Berg’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with A. Scott Berg
A. Scott Berg’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
What A. Scott Berg’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on A (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
A. Scott Berg’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1949, 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 A. Scott Berg apart
The record A. Scott Berg is measured by: Kate Remembered.
Study took A. Scott Berg to Palisades Charter High School and Princeton University.
A. Scott Berg was born to Dick Berg.
Wikipedia files A. Scott Berg under American LGBTQ writers, Jews from Connecticut and LGBTQ people from Connecticut.
Jeff Bridges shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Kate Remembered
- Educated at
- Palisades Charter High School and Princeton University
- Awards
- National Book Award (1980) and Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1999)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
A. Scott Berg, according to the stars
Core essence
A. Scott Berg is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of A. Scott Berg is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How A. Scott Berg wants to be loved
A. Scott Berg wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show A. Scott Berg you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How A. Scott Berg creates
How A. Scott Berg makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. A. Scott Berg creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: A. Scott Berg is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. A. Scott Berg 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means A. Scott Berg 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 A. Scott Berg's birth date. Working below.
Where A. Scott Berg sits
Six lines
A. Scott Berg’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 A. Scott Berg
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Norwalk 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 Norwalk that night
Computed for 41.09°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Norwalk at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 1.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
Norwalk sits at 41.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 51° down.
How unusual A.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl · 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 →The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
A. Scott Berg's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 4, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
A. Scott Berg was born on December 4, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
A. Scott Berg's birth date, December 4, 1949, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in A. Scott Berg’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in A. Scott Berg's date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- A. Scott Berg combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
A. Scott Berg’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 1.2° orb
A. Scott Berg’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.4° to 1.9° orb
A. Scott Berg’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareMars0.6° to 1.7° orb
A. Scott Berg’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.4° to 1.8° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.8° to 3.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.8° to 2.5° orb
stableSuntrinePluto5.4° to 6.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.8° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileNeptuneorb from 4.1° to 5.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
A. Scott Berg’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 12°33′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 13°30′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 22°18′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 15°38′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Sun 0.3°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.8°
- Eros sextile Mercury 3.0°
A. Scott Berg’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in A. Scott Berg’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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
Born the same day as A. Scott Berg
Jeff Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Norwalk, at 41.1°N, nothing below −48.9° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Roger IbañezBrazilian footballer (born 1998)
- Aaron Wan-BissakaDR Congo footballer (born 1997)
- César HuertaMexican association football player
Born in Ox years
- Neil Patrick HarrisAmerican actor
- Ashley TisdaleAmerican actress and singer
- Javier ZanettiArgentine association football player
Also born on December 4
- Jay-Z1969
- Tyra Banks1973
- Marisa Tomei1964
- Kim Seok-jin1992
- Ronnie Ortiz-Magro1985
- Nancy Mace1977
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Derek BartonEnglish organic chemist
- Frederick SoddyEnglish radiochemist
- Gustav StresemannGerman politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Other Sagittarius Ox charts
- Nick NiemannAmerican football linebacker
- Braden MannAmerican football punter, kickoff specialist
- Chauncey Gardner-JohnsonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Mike DannaAmerican football player
Other Steadfast Healers
- Samet AkaydınTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Luka SučićCroatian association football player
- Bart VerbruggenDutch association football player (born 2002)
- Elliot AndersonEnglish footballer (born 2002)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Peter ScholzeGerman mathematician
- Lars HörmanderSwedish mathematician
- Hugo Duminil-CopinFrench mathematician, Fields Medal winner in 2022
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
A. Scott Berg’s cards
Computed from December 4, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
A. Scott Berg’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15496884 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same A. Scott Berg 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 A. Scott Berg.
Quick answers about A. Scott Berg’s chart
- How old is A. Scott Berg?
- A. Scott Berg is 76 years old, born December 4, 1949 in Norwalk, United States.
- What zodiac sign is A. Scott Berg?
- A. Scott Berg is a Sagittarius: born December 4, 1949, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is A. Scott Berg's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 4, 1949 birth.
- What is A. Scott Berg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is A. Scott Berg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is A. Scott Berg's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is A. Scott Berg's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mars, Saturn; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
