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Evan Osnos

Evan Osnos (born December 24, 1976, London, United Kingdom), aged 49, is a Journalist. Osnos's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, National Book Award and National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Evan Osnos’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Evan Osnos’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Pioneer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#153

US rank in 2025

~292,426

Americans share it since 1880

2007

its peak year

The SSA recorded 777 American boys and 14 girls named Evan in 1976: 254th among boys and 4,425th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Evan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

9

Soul Urge · meaning

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on E (5) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

Evan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1976, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Evan apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting came in 2008, when Evan Osnos was 32.

The schooling ran through Greenwich High School and Harvard University.

Wikipedia files Evan Osnos under Greenwich High School alumni, Writers from Greenwich, Connecticut and American expatriates in China.

Ava Gardner (1922) and Ricky Martin (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Greenwich High School and Harvard University
Awards
National Book Award (2014), Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (2008) and National Book Award for Nonfiction (2014)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
5

What the chart says

Evan, according to the stars

Core essence

Evan is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Evan is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Evan needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Evan needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Evan wants to be loved

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

How Evan creates

How Evan makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Evan 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: Evan is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Evan 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Evan has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Evan's birth date. Working below.

Where Evan sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Evan

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Evan

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

PrivateExpressive
Evan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Evan

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Evan

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Evan

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

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

Evan’s birth-night reference starMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 87.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirfak →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 69.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at London was Mirfak, in Perseus, 87.7° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 18% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.

How unusual Evan's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Jupiter

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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If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn Sun

Dry wit, dead serious.

Evan Osnos's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 24, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Evan Osnos was born on December 24, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Evan Osnos's birth date, December 24, 1976, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Evan’s chart

Evan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbMoon fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.5° orbVenus faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.2° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.8° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.8° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun in Capricorn · 2°49′☉2°Moon in Aquarius · 18°00′☽17°Mercury in Capricorn · 22°10′☿22°Venus in Aquarius · 17°28′♀17°Mars in Sagittarius · 24°24′♂24°Jupiter in Taurus · 22°00′ · retrograde♃℞21°Saturn in Leo · 16°14′ · retrograde♄℞16°Uranus in Scorpio · 10°34′♅10°Neptune in Sagittarius · 14°23′♆14°Pluto in Libra · 14°02′♇14°

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

  • stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.0° to 6.7° orb

    Evan’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Evan’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Evan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.6° to 1.8° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto2.2° orb

  • stableVenussextileNeptune2.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto2.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter3.9° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus5.6° to 5.7° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn5.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°23′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 4°17′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 5°08′ (moves 0.82° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 19°40′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 16°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.8°
  • Ceres square Sun 1.5°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.3°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.3°
  • Hygiea trine Mercury 2.5°
  • Chiron trine Mars 3.0°

Evan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus7 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Evan’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Saturn, 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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 0.4°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 1.2°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.6°
  • Mars quincunx Jupiter 2.4°

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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign

Evan’s cards

Computed from December 24, 1976. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Evan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5415510 (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 World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Evan Osnos at Wikipedia, evanosnos.com, 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 Evan Osnos.

Quick answers about Evan Osnos’s chart

How old is Evan Osnos?
Evan Osnos is 49 years old, born December 24, 1976 in London, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Evan Osnos?
Evan Osnos is a Capricorn: born December 24, 1976, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Evan Osnos's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 24, 1976 birth.
What is Evan Osnos's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Evan Osnos's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Evan Osnos's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Evan Osnos's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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