Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens (born November 21, 1973, New York City, United States), aged 52, is an American journalist. Stephens's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Bastiat Prize and Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism.
Bret Stephens’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Ox, with 
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Bret Stephens’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Bret in the U.S.?
#4883
US rank in 2025
~30,051
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Bret’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Bret, according to the stars
Core essence
Bret does not do surface. The core of Bret is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Bret is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Bret cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Bret needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Bret wants to be loved
Bret wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Bret you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Bret creates
How Bret makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Bret creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Bret is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Bret is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Bret gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Bret's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Bret sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Bret Stephens in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Bret Stephens's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 21, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Bret Stephens was born on November 21, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Bret Stephens's birth date, November 21, 1973, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Bret’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bret Stephens' date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Bret Stephens 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.
Bret’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Bret Stephens, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.0° to 0.2° orb
Bret’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.1° to 0.2° orb
Bret’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.5° to 0.7° orb
Bret’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° orb
Bret’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
Bret’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.1° to 4.3° orb
Bret’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.6° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 3.7° to 16.5° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileVenusorb from 4.8° to 5.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 6.9° to 19.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Bret’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 ℞Aries 16°58′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Bret may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 3°57′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Bret caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosSagittarius 13°33′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Bret attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 19°58′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Bret is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 10°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Bret is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.0°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 0.3°
- Chiron square Venus 0.9°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.2°
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°).
Bret’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. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; in its own sign, Aries; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Bret is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Bret’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bret Stephens, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Bret’s cards
Every card is computed from November 21, 1973, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Bret Stephens, 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
Bret’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4961960, 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.
Portrait by Grant Wickes, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bret Stephens at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Bret Stephens.
Quick answers about Bret Stephens’s chart
- How old is Bret Stephens?
- Bret Stephens is 52 years old, born November 21, 1973 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Bret Stephens?
- Bret Stephens is a Scorpio: born November 21, 1973, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox.
- What is Bret Stephens's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 21, 1973 birth.
- What time was Bret Stephens 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 Bret Stephens's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the November 21, 1973 birth date.
- What is Bret Stephens's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 21, 1973 birth date.
- Where is Bret Stephens's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bret Stephens's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
