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Cynthia Tucker

Cynthia Tucker (born March 13, 1955, Monroeville, United States), aged 71, is a Journalist, columnist. Tucker's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award and Journalist of the Year.

Cynthia Tucker’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Cynthia Tucker’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#1014

US rank in 2025

~713,412

Americans share it since 1880

1957

its peak year

The SSA recorded 27,178 American girls and 48 boys named Cynthia in 1955: 11th among girls and 1,085th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Cynthia’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on C (3) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 3: tact against voice.

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

Cynthia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, 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 Cynthia apart

The Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award came in 2005, when Cynthia Tucker was 50.

Cynthia Tucker was taught at Auburn University and Harvard University.

Wikipedia files Cynthia Tucker under Writers from Alabama, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution people and Auburn University alumni.

Kaya Scodelario (1992) and Coco Gauff (2004) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Auburn University and Harvard University
Awards
Journalist of the Year (2006), Harper Lee Award (2022) and Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (2005)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
4

What the chart says

Cynthia, according to the stars

Core essence

Cynthia feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Cynthia 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Cynthia feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Cynthia needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Cynthia wants to be loved

Cynthia 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 Cynthia be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Cynthia creates

How Cynthia makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Cynthia creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Cynthia is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Cynthia is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Cynthia is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Cynthia's birth date. Working below.

Where Cynthia sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Cynthia

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Cynthia

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

PrivateExpressive
Cynthia

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Cynthia

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

PracticalVisionary
Cynthia

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Cynthia

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 Cynthia Tucker

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

Cynthia’s birth-night reference starPolluxwarm orange · GeminiPollux, in Gemini. A warm orange star, 78.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Pollux →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 14.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Monroeville that night

Computed for 31.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Pollux stood nearest the zenith over Monroeville at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.2° above the horizon in Gemini.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.

Monroeville sits at 31.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −58.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 73% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Monroeville, United States
Lives in
Mobile

Wikidata records Mobile as Cynthia Tucker'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 Cynthia Tucker: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Cynthia's chart is

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · T-square onto Saturn · Five planets retrograde

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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Pisces Sun

Feels it all, owns none of it.

Cynthia Tucker's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 13, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Cynthia Tucker was born on March 13, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Cynthia Tucker's birth date, March 13, 1955, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Cynthia’s chart

Cynthia’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.2° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 0.4° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.6° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.1° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.3° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.4° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 1.9° orbSun in Pisces · 22°23′☉22°Moon in Scorpio · 20°31′☽20°Mercury in Aquarius · 25°07′☿25°Venus in Aquarius · 10°19′♀10°Mars in Taurus · 10°41′♂10°Jupiter in Cancer · 19°54′ · retrograde♃℞19°Saturn in Scorpio · 21°03′ · retrograde♄℞21°Uranus in Cancer · 23°45′ · retrograde♅℞23°Neptune in Libra · 27°45′ · retrograde♆℞27°Pluto in Leo · 24°56′ · retrograde♇℞24°

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

  • stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 6.5° orb

    Cynthia’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Cynthia’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 6.5° orb

    Cynthia’s feelings flow straight into their growth.

  • stableVenussquareMars0.1° to 0.6° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn0.8° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus0.9° to 1.9° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter2.0° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune2.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus2.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn3.5° to 4.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 3°30′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 13°57′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 25°03′ (moves 0.67° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 18°09′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Uranus 1.3°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.7°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 2.7°

Cynthia’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

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

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    6 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Cynthia’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Jupiter, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun biquintile Neptune 0.6°
  • Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Mars quintile Uranus 1.1°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.4°

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Cynthia’s cards

Computed from March 13, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Cynthia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5200164 (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 Cynthia Tucker at Wikipedia, cynthiatucker.com and IMDb.

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Quick answers about Cynthia Tucker’s chart

How old is Cynthia Tucker?
Cynthia Tucker is 71 years old, born March 13, 1955 in Monroeville, United States.
What zodiac sign is Cynthia Tucker?
Cynthia Tucker is a Pisces: born March 13, 1955, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Cynthia Tucker's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 13, 1955 birth.
What is Cynthia Tucker's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Cynthia Tucker's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Cynthia Tucker's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Cynthia Tucker's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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