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Bob Sipchen

Bob Sipchen (born June 13, 1953, Chicago, United States), aged 73, is an American journalist. Sipchen is best known for Los Angeles Times. Sipchen's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.

Bob Sipchen’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

Your match with Bob

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Bob Sipchen’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Storyteller

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#9845

US rank in 2025

~93,308

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

The SSA recorded 690 American boys and 5 girls named Bob in 1953: 264th among boys and 5,737th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Bob’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

11

Soul Urge · insight

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on B (2) and closes on B (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.

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

Bob’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1953, 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 Bob apart

The record Bob Sipchen is measured by: Los Angeles Times.

Bob Sipchen was taught at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Tim Allen 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
Los Angeles Times
Educated at
University of California, Santa Barbara
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (2002)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
2

What the chart says

Bob, according to the stars

Core essence

Bob is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Bob needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Bob is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Bob needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Bob wants to be loved

Bob wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Bob is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Bob creates

How Bob 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. Bob 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: Bob is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Bob is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Bob leads without needing to do it alone.

Computed from Bob's birth date. Working below.

Where Bob sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Bob

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Bob

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

PrivateExpressive
Bob

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Bob

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

PracticalVisionary
Bob

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Bob

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

Dedicate a star to Bob Sipchen

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

Bob’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 82.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 10.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Chicago that night

Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.2° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.

Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 7% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.

How unusual Bob's chart is

Chart pattern score

65 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Gemini · 2 unaspected planets · 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.

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Bob Sipchen at a glance

Gemini Sun

Fascinating, then gone.

Bob Sipchen's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 13, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Water Snake

Watches. Waits. Then precisely.

Bob Sipchen was born on June 13, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 1

Goes first. Works it out.

Bob Sipchen's birth date, June 13, 1953, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Bob’s chart

Bob’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0° orbMoon fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.6° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.6° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.2° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.7° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 3° orbSun in Gemini · 22°22′☉22°Moon in Cancer · 17°41′☽17°Mercury in Cancer · 13°03′☿13°Venus in Taurus · 6°58′♀6°Mars in Gemini · 29°42′♂29°Jupiter in Gemini · 8°12′♃8°Saturn in Libra · 20°38′ · retrograde♄℞20°Uranus in Cancer · 17°07′♅17°Neptune in Libra · 21°12′ · retrograde♆℞21°Pluto in Leo · 21°12′♇21°

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

  • stableMoonconjunctionUranus0.0° to 6.9° orb

    Bob’s feelings and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Bob’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.6° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune0.7° to 1.6° orb

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.7° to 1.6° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn1.2° to 2.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.3° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus3.5° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars7.2° to 7.5° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 19°43′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 15°47′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus or Aries during this date

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 21°47′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 19°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.6°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 0.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Chiron square Saturn 0.9°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 1.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 1.3°
  • Chiron square Neptune 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.1°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.6°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.7°

Bob’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon5 pts

    in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Bob’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mars, JupiterThree 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-square Venus 0.4°
  • Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.0°
  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 2.0°

Born the same day as Bob

Tim Allen was born on June 13, 1953 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Chicago sits at 41.9°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated

Bob’s cards

Computed from June 13, 1953. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Storyteller

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Bob’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4933997 (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 Bob Sipchen 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 Bob Sipchen.

Quick answers about Bob Sipchen’s chart

How old is Bob Sipchen?
Bob Sipchen is 73 years old, born June 13, 1953 in Chicago, United States.
What zodiac sign is Bob Sipchen?
Bob Sipchen is a Gemini: born June 13, 1953, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Bob Sipchen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 13, 1953 birth.
What is Bob Sipchen's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Bob Sipchen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Bob Sipchen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Bob Sipchen's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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