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Carlos Lozada

Carlos Lozada (born November 1, 1971, Lima, Peru), aged 55, is a Peruvian-American journalist and nonfiction book critic. Lozada's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

Carlos Lozada’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Carlos Lozada’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Guardian

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

#150

US rank in 2025

~309,076

Americans share it since 1880

2001

its peak year

Carlos ranked 88th among boys and 1,911th among girls in 1971, the year of this birth, with 3,426 American boys and 45 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Carlos’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

6

Soul Urge · being needed

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Carlos’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Crimson · Silver

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 1971, 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 Carlos apart

Carlos Lozada took the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2015, at 44.

Training came by way of Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and University of Notre Dame.

Wikipedia's editors put Carlos Lozada under Male journalists, Peruvian journalists and Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters alumni.

Aishwarya Rai (1973) and Tim Cook (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and University of Notre Dame
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (2019) and Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing (2015)
Citizenship
Peru
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
3

What the chart says

Carlos, according to the stars

Core essence

Carlos does not do surface. The core of Carlos 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 Carlos is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Carlos runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Carlos needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Carlos wants to be loved

Carlos wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Carlos even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Carlos creates

How Carlos makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Carlos 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: Carlos is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Carlos is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Carlos goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Carlos's birth date. Working below.

Where Carlos sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Carlos

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Carlos

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Carlos

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Carlos

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Carlos

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 Carlos Lozada

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

Carlos’s birth-night reference starSkatwhite · AquariusSkat, in Aquarius. A white star, 79.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Skat →The warmest lightAldebaranwarm orange · TaurusAldebaran, in Taurus. A warm orange star, 10.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Aldebaran →

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

The sky over Lima that night

Computed for 12.06°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Lima at 9 p.m. that evening: Skat of Aquarius, within 10.8° of the exact zenith.

Of the 76 catalog stars above the horizon, Canopus was the brightest.

From 12.1°S not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.

How unusual Carlos's chart is

Chart pattern score

59 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets

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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Carlos Lozada in 15 seconds

Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

Carlos Lozada's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 1, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Metal Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Carlos Lozada was born on November 1, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Carlos Lozada's birth date, November 1, 1971, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Carlos’s chart

Carlos’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 29° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.7° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.6° orbSaturn faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 4° orbJupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 4.1° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 4.3° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.4° orbSun in Scorpio · 8°37′☉8°Moon in Aries · 21°47′☽21°Mercury in Scorpio · 23°16′☿23°Venus in Scorpio · 25°52′♀25°Mars in Aquarius · 27°31′♂27°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 8°58′♃8°Saturn in Gemini · 4°55′ · retrograde♄℞4°Uranus in Libra · 15°29′♅15°Neptune in Sagittarius · 1°55′♆1°Pluto in Libra · 0°57′♇0°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb

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

  • stableVenussquareMars1.3° to 2.0° orb

    Carlos’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.5° to 2.7° orb

    Carlos’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars3.8° to 4.7° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.9° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune4.2° to 4.6° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 6.6° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune7.0° to 7.1° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 10°24′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 14°53′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 1°44′ (moves 0.79° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 10°07′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 17°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Uranus 0.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 1.8°

Carlos’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Carlos’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 Jupiter 0.3°
  • Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.4°

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Carlos’s cards

Computed from November 1, 1971. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Guardian

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Carlos’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q60735663 (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 Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Carlos Lozada 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 Carlos Lozada.

Quick answers about Carlos Lozada’s chart

How old is Carlos Lozada?
Carlos Lozada is 55 years old, born November 1, 1971 in Lima, Peru.
What zodiac sign is Carlos Lozada?
Carlos Lozada is a Scorpio: born November 1, 1971, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Carlos Lozada's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 1, 1971 birth.
What is Carlos Lozada's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Carlos Lozada's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Carlos Lozada's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Carlos Lozada's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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