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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Monkey, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Dean’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Dean sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Dean Baquet, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Dean’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.2° to 3.1° orb
Dean’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquareNeptune6.8° orb
Dean’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 6°44′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Dean making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 17°16′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Dean looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosCapricorn 19°29′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Dean is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 19°05′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Dean is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Dean at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.9°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Dean’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Dean is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Dean’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dean Baquet, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
Every card is computed from September 21, 1956, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Dean Baquet, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Dean’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5245997, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey.
- 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 time was Dean Baquet born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Dean Baquet's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the September 21, 1956 birth date.
- What is Dean Baquet's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 21, 1956 birth date.
- 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.
