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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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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

US Social Security Administration public records

Bob’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Bob sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Bob’s chart

Bob’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Bob Sipchen, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • 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

    Bob’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune0.7° to 1.6° orb

    Bob’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.7° to 1.6° orb

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

  • stableSuntrineSaturn1.2° to 2.2° orb

    Bob’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.3° to 4.9° orb

    Bob’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus3.5° orb

    Bob’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb

    Bob’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars7.2° to 7.5° orb

    Bob’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • 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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

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

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

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Bob is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

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

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

    Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Bob is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.

  • ♡ ErosTaurus or Aries during this date

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

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Bob wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

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

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

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Bob needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Bob exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Bob’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  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

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Bob is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Bob’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

  • 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
  • Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.0°
  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 2.0°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bob Sipchen, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Bob

Tim Allen was born on June 13, 1953 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Bob’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Sun

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The Evergreen Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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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

No birth time is on public record for Bob Sipchen, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Bob’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4933997, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

The same Bob Sipchen at Wikipedia and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake.
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 time was Bob Sipchen born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Bob Sipchen's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the June 13, 1953 birth date.
What is Bob Sipchen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 13, 1953 birth date.
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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