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Cheryl Diaz Meyer

Cheryl Diaz Meyer (born February 25, 1968, Quezon City, Philippines), aged 58, is a Filipino-American independent photojournalist (born 1968). Meyer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.

Cheryl Diaz Meyer’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Cheryl Diaz Meyer’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Healer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#4376

US rank in 2025

~440,517

Americans share it since 1909

1958

its peak year

In 1968, 9,138 American girls and 28 boys were registered Cheryl — 37th among girls and 1,480th among boys on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Cheryl’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

33

Expression · lifting other people

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on C (3) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

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

Cheryl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Violet · Rose-gold · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1968, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Cheryl apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography came in 2004, when Cheryl Diaz Meyer was 36.

Study took Cheryl Diaz Meyer to University of Minnesota Duluth and Western Kentucky University.

On Wikipedia the categories read Mass media people from Quezon City, American women journalists of Asian descent and Filipino emigrants to the United States.

George Harrison (1943) and Néstor Kirchner (1950) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Minnesota Duluth and Western Kentucky University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography (2004)
Citizenship
United States and Philippines
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Cheryl, according to the stars

Core essence

Cheryl feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Cheryl is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Cheryl wants to be loved

Cheryl wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Cheryl be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Cheryl creates

How Cheryl 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. Cheryl 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: Cheryl is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Cheryl is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Cheryl 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 Cheryl's birth date. Working below.

Where Cheryl sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Cheryl

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

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

PrivateExpressive
Cheryl

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Cheryl

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

PracticalVisionary
Cheryl

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Cheryl

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 Cheryl Diaz Meyer

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

Cheryl’s birth-night reference starGomeisablue-white · Canis MinorGomeisa, in Canis Minor. A blue-white star, 83.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Gomeisa →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 48.8° 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 Quezon City that night

Computed for 14.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Quezon City at 9 p.m. that evening: Gomeisa of Canis Minor, within 6.3° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

Quezon City sits at 14.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 9% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Quezon City, Philippines
Lives in
Washington, D.C.

Wikidata records Washington, D.C. as Cheryl Diaz Meyer's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Cheryl Diaz Meyer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Cheryl's chart is

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · 1 planet 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Cheryl Diaz Meyer's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 25, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Earth Monkey

Clever, playful, never bored.

Cheryl Diaz Meyer was born on February 25, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

Cheryl Diaz Meyer's birth date, February 25, 1968, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Cheryl’s chart

Cheryl’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.7° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.9° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.6° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.7° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.4° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.6° orbSun in Pisces · 5°37′☉5°Moon in Capricorn · 27°24′☽27°Mercury in Aquarius · 17°41′ · retrograde☿℞17°Venus in Aquarius · 6°06′♀6°Mars in Aries · 6°08′♂6°Jupiter in Virgo · 0°16′ · retrograde♃℞0°Saturn in Aries · 10°32′♄10°Uranus in Virgo · 28°05′ · retrograde♅℞28°Neptune in Scorpio · 26°31′♆26°Pluto in Virgo · 21°58′ · retrograde♇℞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

  • stableVenussextileMars0.0° to 0.3° orb

    Cheryl’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableUranussextileNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb

    Cheryl’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb

    Cheryl’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn3.9° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.1° to 4.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter4.8° to 5.9° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto6.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 2.4° to 15.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 27°53′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 5°59′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 15°31′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 28°42′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 17°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Venus 0.1°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 0.3°
  • Ceres trine Sun 0.4°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.4°
  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.6°
  • Eros trine Mercury 2.2°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 2.2°

Cheryl’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Cheryl’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°

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Cheryl’s cards

Computed from February 25, 1968. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Cheryl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q23905427 (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 Cheryl Diaz Meyer at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Cheryl Diaz Meyer.

Quick answers about Cheryl Diaz Meyer’s chart

How old is Cheryl Diaz Meyer?
Cheryl Diaz Meyer is 58 years old, born February 25, 1968 in Quezon City, Philippines.
What zodiac sign is Cheryl Diaz Meyer?
Cheryl Diaz Meyer is a Pisces: born February 25, 1968, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Cheryl Diaz Meyer's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 25, 1968 birth.
What is Cheryl Diaz Meyer's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Cheryl Diaz Meyer's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Cheryl Diaz Meyer's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Cheryl Diaz Meyer's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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