C. L. Sulzberger
C. L. Sulzberger (born October 27, 1912, New York City, United States; died 1993), was an American journalist and non-fiction writer. Sulzberger's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards.
C. L. Sulzberger’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with C. L. Sulzberger
C. L. Sulzberger’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
What C. L. Sulzberger’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on C (3) and closes on C (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
C. L. Sulzberger’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
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 1912, 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 C. L. Sulzberger apart
C. L. Sulzberger took the Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards in 1951, at 39.
Harvard University shaped the training.
C. L. Sulzberger was born to Leo Sulzberger and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for C. L. Sulzberger: Sulzberger family, Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism and The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winners.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (1951)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
What the chart says
C. L. Sulzberger, according to the stars
Core essence
C. L. Sulzberger does not do surface. The core of C. L. Sulzberger 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 C. L. Sulzberger is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How C. L. Sulzberger wants to be loved
C. L. Sulzberger wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with C. L. Sulzberger and watch them fall for you again.
How C. L. Sulzberger creates
How C. L. Sulzberger makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. C. L. Sulzberger creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: C. L. Sulzberger is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. C. L. Sulzberger is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means C. L. Sulzberger runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from C. L. Sulzberger's birth date. Working below.
Where C. L. Sulzberger sits
Six lines
C. L. Sulzberger’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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.9° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 94 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°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 New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 96% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Paris, Grand Paris in 1993.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for C. L. Sulzberger: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual C.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 1 unaspected planet · 2 planets at a critical degree
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 →C. L. Sulzberger at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
C. L. Sulzberger's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 27, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
C. L. Sulzberger was born on October 27, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
C. L. Sulzberger's birth date, October 27, 1912, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in C. L. Sulzberger’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in C. L. Sulzberger's date-only chart is Venus opposition Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- C. L. Sulzberger combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
C. L. Sulzberger’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.4° to 1.7° orb
C. L. Sulzberger’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionMars2.5° to 2.8° orb
C. L. Sulzberger’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSaturntrineUranus3.0° orb
C. L. Sulzberger’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussextileUranus3.4° to 4.6° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.6° orb
stableSunsquareUranus3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableMarstrinePluto6.3° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 2.3° to 15.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
C. L. Sulzberger’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°38′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 15°19′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 1°52′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 12°01′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 16°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mars 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros trine Saturn 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.8°
- Eros square Sun 2.1°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.4°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.7°
- Chiron square Venus 3.0°
C. L. Sulzberger’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 2 major aspects
Configurations in C. L. Sulzberger’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 0.3°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.3°
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From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
C. L. Sulzberger’s cards
Computed from October 27, 1912. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
C. L. Sulzberger’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5201118 (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.
Portrait by unknown, image comes from the Romanian National Archives, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same C. L. Sulzberger at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by C. L. Sulzberger.
Quick answers about C. L. Sulzberger’s chart
- What zodiac sign was C. L. Sulzberger?
- C. L. Sulzberger was a Scorpio: born October 27, 1912, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was C. L. Sulzberger's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 27, 1912 birth.
- What was C. L. Sulzberger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was C. L. Sulzberger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was C. L. Sulzberger's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was C. L. Sulzberger's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
