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Anthony Shadid

Anthony Shadid (born September 26, 1968, Oklahoma City, United States; died 2012), was a Foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Shadid's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, George Polk Award and Michael Kelly Award.

Anthony Shadid’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Anthony Shadid’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Pioneer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#46

US rank in 2025

~1,495,156

Americans share it since 1880

1990

its peak year

The SSA recorded 20,231 American boys and 137 girls named Anthony in 1968: 21st among boys and 879th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Anthony’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

8

Soul Urge · achievement

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Anthony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Sapphire, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia

Lavender · Blush · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1968, 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 Anthony apart

The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting came in 2004, when Anthony Shadid was 36.

Anthony Shadid was taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Heritage Hall School.

Cause of death is recorded as asthma.

Wikipedia files Anthony Shadid under American journalists of Arab descent, Writers from Oklahoma City and Deaths from asthma.

Serena Williams (1981) and Ivan Pavlov (1849) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Heritage Hall School and University of Oklahoma
Awards
George Polk Award (2011), Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (2004) and Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting (2007)
Cause of death
asthma
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
13

What the chart says

Anthony, according to the stars

Core essence

Anthony makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Anthony is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

How Anthony creates

How Anthony makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Anthony creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Anthony is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Anthony 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 Anthony 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 Anthony's birth date. Working below.

Where Anthony sits

Six lines

Anthony’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Anthony

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Anthony

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

PrivateExpressive
Anthony

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Anthony

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

PracticalVisionary
Anthony

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Anthony

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oklahoma City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Anthony’s birth-night reference starSadryellow-white · CygnusSadr, in Cygnus. A yellow-white star, 82.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Sadr →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 11.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Oklahoma City that night

Computed for 35.48°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Sadr stood nearest the zenith over Oklahoma City at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.8° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.

Oklahoma City sits at 35.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Oklahoma City at all: they sit past the −54.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 26% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 20° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Oklahoma City, United States

The death is recorded at Syria in 2012.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Anthony Shadid: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Anthony's chart is

Chart pattern score

67 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Virgo · Yod onto Saturn · 2 planets 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Anthony Shadid's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 26, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Earth Monkey

Clever, playful, never bored.

Anthony Shadid was born on September 26, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Anthony Shadid's birth date, September 26, 1968, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Anthony’s chart

Anthony’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.4° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 2.8° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.9° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 3.4° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSun in Libra · 3°40′☉3°Moon in Sagittarius · 0°18′☽0°Mercury in Libra · 28°56′☿28°Venus in Scorpio · 0°01′♀0°Mars in Virgo · 3°06′♂3°Jupiter in Virgo · 20°12′♃20°Saturn in Aries · 23°31′ · retrograde♄℞23°Uranus in Virgo · 29°52′♅29°Neptune in Scorpio · 24°28′♆24°Pluto in Virgo · 23°05′♇23°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.8° to 1.4° orb

    Anthony’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb

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

  • stableVenussextileMars2.8° to 3.4° orb

    Anthony’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.8° to 3.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus3.3° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercurysextileMars4.2° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune4.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.1° to 5.8° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn5.8° to 7.1° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto6.8° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 14.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

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

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

Anthony’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 0°57′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 19°54′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 8°59′ (moves 0.54° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 3°18′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 11°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Hygiea opposition Sun 0.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.1°
  • Chiron opposition Sun 2.7°

Anthony’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Anthony’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree 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, the shape it makesYod onto Saturn · Neptune, Pluto, SaturnTwo 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.0°

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Anthony’s cards

Computed from September 26, 1968. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Pioneer

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Anthony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q573995 (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 Terissa Schor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Anthony Shadid at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.

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Quick answers about Anthony Shadid’s chart

What zodiac sign was Anthony Shadid?
Anthony Shadid was a Libra: born September 26, 1968, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Anthony Shadid's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 26, 1968 birth.
What was Anthony Shadid's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Anthony Shadid's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Anthony Shadid's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Anthony Shadid's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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