E. R. Shipp
E. R. Shipp (born June 6, 1955, Conyers, United States), aged 71, is an American journalist. Shipp's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
E. R. Shipp’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with E. R. Shipp
E. R. Shipp’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
What E. R. Shipp’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 7 and 9: analysis against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
E. R. Shipp’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
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 E. R. Shipp apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary came in 1996, when E. R. Shipp was 41.
The schooling ran through Georgia State University and Columbia Law School.
Wikipedia files E. R. Shipp under Morgan State University faculty, Hofstra University faculty and People from Center Moriches, New York.
Ryan Higa (1990) and QTCinderella (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Georgia State University, Columbia Law School and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1996)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
E. R. Shipp, according to the stars
Core essence
E. R. Shipp is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. E. R. Shipp needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How E. R. Shipp wants to be loved
E. R. Shipp wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once E. R. Shipp is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How E. R. Shipp creates
How E. R. Shipp makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. E. R. Shipp creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: E. R. Shipp 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 5 is the free spirit. E. R. Shipp is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means E. R. Shipp does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from E. R. Shipp's birth date. Working below.
Where E. R. Shipp sits
Six lines
E. R. Shipp’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 E. R. Shipp
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Conyers 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 Conyers that night
Computed for 33.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Conyers was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 82.0° up.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Conyers sits at 33.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −56.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Conyers on any night.
The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, had already set; the Sun sat 3° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Conyers, United States
- Lives in
- Baltimore
Wikidata records Baltimore as E. R. Shipp'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 E. R. Shipp: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual E.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
E. R. Shipp's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 6, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
E. R. Shipp was born on June 6, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
E. R. Shipp's birth date, June 6, 1955, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in E. R. Shipp’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in E. R. Shipp's date-only chart is Uranus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- E. R. Shipp combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
E. R. Shipp’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMoonoppositionMercury0.1° to 7.7° orb
E. R. Shipp’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
stableUranussquareNeptune0.3° orb
E. R. Shipp’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
E. R. Shipp’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquarePluto2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussextileUranus2.9° to 4.1° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.3° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn5.4° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
E. R. Shipp’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 5°07′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 24°26′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 27°32′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 8°15′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 9°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mars 0.7°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 1.0°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.3°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.1°
- Ceres trine Venus 2.5°
E. R. Shipp’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in E. R. Shipp’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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.4°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.9°
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E. R. Shipp’s cards
Computed from June 6, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
E. R. Shipp’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5322109 (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 E. R. Shipp at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by E. R. Shipp.
Quick answers about E. R. Shipp’s chart
- How old is E. R. Shipp?
- E. R. Shipp is 71 years old, born June 6, 1955 in Conyers, United States.
- What zodiac sign is E. R. Shipp?
- E. R. Shipp is a Gemini: born June 6, 1955, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is E. R. Shipp's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 6, 1955 birth.
- What is E. R. Shipp's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is E. R. Shipp's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is E. R. Shipp's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is E. R. Shipp's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
