Blair Kamin
Blair Kamin (born August 6, 1957, Red Bank, United States), aged 69, is an American architecture critic. Kamin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, George Polk Award and Nieman Fellowship.
Blair Kamin’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Blair
Blair Kamin’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Blair in the U.S.?
#169
US rank in 2025
~38,276
Americans share it since 1881
2025
its peak year
In 1957, 236 American boys and 20 girls were registered Blair — 505th among boys and 2,568th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Blair’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
2
Soul Urge · closeness
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on B (2) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Blair’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 5 · 7 · 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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1957, 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 Blair apart
The George Polk Award came in 1996, when Blair Kamin was 39.
Blair Kamin was taught at Yale School of Architecture and Yale University.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Red Bank, New Jersey, Yale School of Architecture alumni and American architecture critics.
Andy Warhol (1928) and Alexander Fleming (1881) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Yale School of Architecture, Yale University and Amherst College
- Awards
- George Polk Award (1996), Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1999) and Nieman Fellowship (2013)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Blair, according to the stars
Core essence
Blair is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Blair 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.
How Blair wants to be loved
Blair 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 Blair and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Blair creates
How Blair makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Blair creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Blair 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. Blair 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Blair fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Blair's birth date. Working below.
Where Blair sits
Six lines
Blair’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 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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Blair Kamin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Red Bank 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 Red Bank that night
Computed for 40.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Red Bank at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.3° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
Red Bank sits at 40.3°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 −49.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 89% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 10° down.
How unusual Blair's chart is
Chart pattern score
70 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Leo · 4 planets at a critical degree · A bowl chart
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 SunThe room rearranges itself.
Blair Kamin's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 6, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Blair Kamin was born on August 6, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Blair Kamin's birth date, August 6, 1957, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Blair’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Blair Kamin's date-only chart is Saturn trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mars, Uranus 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.
- Blair Kamin combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Blair’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableSaturntrineUranus0.0° orb
Blair’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMoonsquareJupiter0.1° to 6.5° orb
Blair’s feelings grind against their growth.
stableMoontrinePluto0.1° to 6.9° orb
Blair’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.3° to 0.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune0.7° to 1.3° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.6° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn5.6° to 6.8° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.7° to 6.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus5.7° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Blair’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 14°51′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 1°02′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 1°31′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 20°11′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 7°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Sun 1.0°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.0°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.5°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 2.4°
- Eros conjunction Mars 2.5°
Blair’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Blair’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mars, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.1°
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Born in United States
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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Other Leo Rooster charts
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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Blair’s cards
Computed from August 6, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
9 · Healer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Blair’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4924121 (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.
The same Blair Kamin at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Blair Kamin.
Quick answers about Blair Kamin’s chart
- How old is Blair Kamin?
- Blair Kamin is 69 years old, born August 6, 1957 in Red Bank, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Blair Kamin?
- Blair Kamin is a Leo: born August 6, 1957, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Blair Kamin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 6, 1957 birth.
- What is Blair Kamin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Blair Kamin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Blair Kamin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Blair Kamin's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
