Bill Marimow
Bill Marimow (born August 4, 1947, Philadelphia, United States), aged 79, is an American investigative reporter. Marimow's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Bill Marimow’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Bill
Bill Marimow’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Bill in the U.S.?
#5235
US rank in 2025
~161,190
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1947, Bill came 76th among boys and 4,389th among girls, carried by 4,681 American boys and 7 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bill’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on B (2) 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
Bill’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
The record
What sets Bill apart
Barack Obama (1961) and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Bill, according to the stars
Core essence
Bill is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Bill is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Bill is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Bill needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Bill wants to be loved
Bill wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Bill openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Bill creates
How Bill makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Bill creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Bill 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 6 is the nurturer. Bill is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Bill scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Bill's birth date. Working below.
Where Bill sits
Six lines
Bill’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Bill Marimow
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Philadelphia at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 14.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Philadelphia at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 92% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 8° down.
How unusual Bill's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Bill Marimow's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 4, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Bill Marimow was born on August 4, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Bill Marimow's birth date, August 4, 1947, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Bill’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bill Marimow's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Bill Marimow combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Bill’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Pisces 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
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.5° to 1.3° orb
Bill’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus0.6° to 1.2° orb
Bill’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto0.6° to 0.7° orb
Bill’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.0° to 2.0° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.9° to 6.0° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 1.9° to 14.1° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileNeptuneorb from 4.7° to 6.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Bill’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 3°20′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 6°19′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 5°50′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 20°32′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 20°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Venus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Eros trine Venus 2.6°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.7°
Bill’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Bill’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, Saturn, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.7°
More people like Bill
Other investigative journalists
- John Woestendiek1953
- Olesya Shmagun1987
Born in United States
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- Timothy B. SchmitAmerican musician
- Eric F. WieschausAmerican geneticist
- Richard DreyfussAmerican actor (born 1947)
- Octavia E. ButlerAmerican science fiction writer
More charts like Bill’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Sofyan AmrabatMoroccan-Dutch association football player (born 1996)
- Koki OgawaJapanese association football player
- Wout WeghorstDutch association football player (born 1992)
Born in Pig years
- Miranda KerrAustralian model
- Christina ApplegateAmerican actress
- Jesse EisenbergAmerican actor
Also born on August 4
- Barack Obama1961
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex1981
- Antonio Valencia1985
- Billy Bob Thornton1955
- Mark Milligan1985
- Meg Whitman1956
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Annie LennoxScottish singer-songwriter (born 1954)
- Sylvia SidneyAmerican actress
- Patricia ClarksonAmerican actress
Other Leo Pig charts
- Ethan PocicAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Logan CookeAmerican football player
- Foyesade OluokunAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Durham SmytheAmerican football player (born 1995)
Other Evergreen Guardians
- Lauren VélezAmerican actress (born 1964)
- Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaJapanese actor
- Sean BridgersAmerican actor and director
- Shameik MooreAmerican actor (born 1995)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Chloe MoriondoAmerican singer-songwriter and YouTuber
- Gabriel LaBelleCanadian actor
- Lola TungAmerican actress
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Bill’s cards
Computed from August 4, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bill’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q133042948 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bill Marimow.
Quick answers about Bill Marimow’s chart
- How old is Bill Marimow?
- Bill Marimow is 79 years old, born August 4, 1947 in Philadelphia, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Bill Marimow?
- Bill Marimow is a Leo: born August 4, 1947, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Bill Marimow's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 4, 1947 birth.
- What is Bill Marimow's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Bill Marimow's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Bill Marimow's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bill Marimow's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
