Dean Baquet
Dean Baquet (born September 21, 1956, New Orleans, United States), aged 70, is an American journalist. Baquet has served as editor-in-chief. Baquet's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, Journalist of the Year and Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Dean Baquet’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Dean
Dean Baquet’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Dean in the U.S.?
#125
US rank in 2025
~195,844
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
The SSA recorded 3,712 American boys and 35 girls named Dean in 1956: 99th among boys and 1,802nd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dean’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
6
Soul Urge · being needed
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dean’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
The record
What sets Dean apart
Kwame Nkrumah (1909) and Stephen King (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Dean, according to the stars
Core essence
Dean notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Dean is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Dean 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 Dean needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Dean wants to be loved
Dean wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Dean openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Dean creates
How Dean makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Dean 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: Dean 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Dean 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Dean slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Dean's birth date. Working below.
Where Dean sits
Six lines
Dean’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Dean Baquet
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Orleans 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 Orleans that night
Computed for 29.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New Orleans was Albireo, in Cygnus, 82.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
New Orleans sits at 30.0°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 −60.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 96% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 26° down.
How unusual Dean's chart is
Chart pattern score
21 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Mars retrograde · 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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Dean Baquet's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 21, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Dean Baquet was born on September 21, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Dean Baquet's birth date, September 21, 1956, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Dean’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dean Baquet's date-only chart is Sun sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Dean Baquet combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Dean’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aries 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
stableSunsextileSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Dean’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.2° to 0.6° orb
Dean’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
Dean’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune6.8° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 1.7° to 15.5° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileVenusorb from 4.5° to 6.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 4.9° to 17.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 5.5° to 18.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 5.8° to 18.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Dean’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 6°44′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 17°16′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 19°29′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 19°05′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.9°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.8°
Dean’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Dean’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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.6°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Mars 1.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.8°
More people like Dean
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- Liz Balmaseda1959
- Michael Hiltzik1952
- Jamal Khashoggi1958
- Bob Sipchen1953
- Allen Steele1958
Born in United States
- Frances ArnoldNobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)
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- Michael BiehnAmerican actor
- Ramona SingerAmerican socialite and television personality
- Meg WhitmanAmerican business executive
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More charts like Dean’s
Fellow Virgo suns
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- Melissa LeoAmerican actress
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on September 21
- Kwame Nkrumah1909
- Stephen King1947
- Leonard Cohen1934
- Kevin Rudd1957
- Donald Arthur Glaser1926
- Liam Gallagher1972
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Ree DrummondAmerican chef
- Abby ChampionAmerican model
- Brooke ElliottAmerican actress and singer
Other Virgo Monkey charts
- Amy HarmonAmerican science and technology writer
- William SaroyanArmenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer
- Joshua CohenAmerican writer
- John J. PershingUnited States Army general in World War I
Other Gilded Healers
- SunghoonSouth Korean singer and figure skater
- RyujinSouth Korean singer, rapper and dancer
- GiselleJapanese singer and rapper (born 2000)
- Luguentz DortCanadian basketball player (born 1999)
Famous people with Life Path 6
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- Nick BoltonAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Teven JenkinsAmerican football offensive tackle
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Dean’s cards
Computed from September 21, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dean’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5245997 (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 Fuzheado, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dean Baquet at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dean Baquet.
Quick answers about Dean Baquet’s chart
- How old is Dean Baquet?
- Dean Baquet is 70 years old, born September 21, 1956 in New Orleans, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Dean Baquet?
- Dean Baquet is a Virgo: born September 21, 1956, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Dean Baquet's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 21, 1956 birth.
- What is Dean Baquet's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dean Baquet's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dean Baquet's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dean Baquet's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
