Emily Nussbaum
Emily Nussbaum (born February 20, 1966, United States), aged 60, is an American television critic. Nussbaum's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Emily Nussbaum’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Fire Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Emily
Emily Nussbaum’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Emily in the U.S.?
#34
US rank in 2025
~898,296
Americans share it since 1880
1999
its peak year
Emily ranked 237th in 1966, the year of this birth, with 1,249 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Emily’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on E (5) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Emily’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1966, 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 Emily apart
Emily Nussbaum took the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2016, at 50.
The classrooms behind this chart: Scarsdale High School and Oberlin College.
On the family side, Emily Nussbaum was born to Bernard W. Nussbaum and married Clive Thompson.
Wikipedia's editors put Emily Nussbaum under New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science alumni, Women television critics and American television critics.
The same date carries Cindy Crawford. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Scarsdale High School, Oberlin College and New York University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (2016)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says
Emily, according to the stars
Core essence
Emily feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Emily 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 Emily wants to be loved
Emily wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Emily you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Emily creates
How Emily makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Emily creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Emily is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Emily is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Emily 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 Emily's birth date. Working below.
Where Emily sits
Six lines
Emily’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 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 Emily Nussbaum
Three stars chosen from the real sky above United States 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 United States that night
Computed for 39.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at United States was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 82.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 39.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −50.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from United States on any night.
Sun 32° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual Emily's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Pisces · T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet
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
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Emily Nussbaum's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 20, 1966, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Horse
Fire HorseHappiest halfway there.
Emily Nussbaum was born on February 20, 1966, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Emily Nussbaum's birth date, February 20, 1966, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Emily’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Emily Nussbaum's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Eight of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Emily Nussbaum combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Emily’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableSaturnoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.2° orb
Emily’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsoppositionPluto0.3° to 1.1° orb
Emily’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.4° to 1.1° orb
Emily’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus0.5° to 0.7° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto0.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus1.0° to 1.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.9° to 4.0° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.2° to 5.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.4° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable8 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Emily’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 20°50′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 12°27′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 4°57′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 1°16′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 25°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.5°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.6°
Emily’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn7 pts
disposes Venus; 6 major aspects
Configurations in Emily’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, Mars, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Uranus, JupiterAn 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.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.4°
Born the same day as Emily
Cindy Crawford was born on February 20, 1966 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from United States, at 39.8°N, nothing below −50.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Emily
Other journalists
- Jim Yardley1964
- Don Lemon1966
- Carole Radziwill1963
- Clifford J. Levy1967
- David Barstow1963
- Amy Harmon1968
Born in United States
- Cindy CrawfordAmerican model
- Alexis DenisofAmerican actor
- Justine BatemanAmerican actress, writer, and producer
- Téa LeoniAmerican actress and film producer
- Rainn WilsonAmerican actor, comedian, producer, and writer
- Don LemonAmerican journalist and news anchor
More charts like Emily’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Matthew BergeronCanadian gridiron football player (born 2000)
- Jalon WalkerAmerican football player (born 2004)
- Ronnie StanleyAmerican football player (born 1994)
Born in Horse years
- YGAmerican rapper and actor
- Omotola Jalade EkeindeNigerian actress and singer
- Paolo BancheroAmerican basketball player
Also born on February 20
- Kurt Cobain1967
- Mitch McConnell1942
- Cindy Crawford1966
- Trevor Noah1984
- Hubert de Givenchy1927
- Shepherd Bushiri1983
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Munir Mohand MohamediMoroccan footballer
- Dominik LivakovićCroatian association football player (born 1995)
- Orbelín PinedaMexican association football player (born 1996)
Other Pisces Horse charts
- Robert J. Perabusinessperson
- Jimmy HaslamAmerican businessman and sports team owner (born 1954)
- Suleyman KerimovBusinessman, investor, oligarch
- Kim Beom-sooSouth Korean billionaire businessman
Other Gilded Storytellers
- Jon RahmSpanish professional golfer
- Liam LawsonNew Zealand motor racing driver
- Zachary Dean HerronAmerican musical artist. Part of a band named "Why Don't We"
- Emma NavarroUS American tennis player
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Isaiah RodgersAmerican football cornerback
- Will FriesAmerican football player
- J. J. McCarthyAmerican football player (born 2003)
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Emily’s cards
Computed from February 20, 1966. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Emily’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q22279443 (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 kellywritershouse, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Emily Nussbaum at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Emily Nussbaum.
Quick answers about Emily Nussbaum’s chart
- How old is Emily Nussbaum?
- Emily Nussbaum is 60 years old, born February 20, 1966 in United States.
- What zodiac sign is Emily Nussbaum?
- Emily Nussbaum is a Pisces: born February 20, 1966, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Emily Nussbaum's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 20, 1966 birth.
- What is Emily Nussbaum's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Emily Nussbaum's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Emily Nussbaum's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Emily Nussbaum's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
