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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Evan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Evan sits

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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

Dedicate a star to Evan Osnos

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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Evan’s chart

Evan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Evan Osnos, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Evan’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto2.2° orb

    Evan’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune2.5° to 3.6° orb

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

  • stableVenustrinePluto2.9° to 4.0° orb

    Evan’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter3.9° to 5.1° orb

    Evan’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus5.6° to 5.7° orb

    Evan’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn5.8° orb

    Evan’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • 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

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

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Evan may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

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

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

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Evan is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

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

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

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Evan is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

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

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

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Evan is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Evan is read as immovable on those points.

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.

  • 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°

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°).

Evan’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. 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

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Evan is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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 Evan’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.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Evan Osnos, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Evan’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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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

No birth time is on public record for Evan Osnos, 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

Evan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5415510, 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 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. 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.

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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon.
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 time was Evan Osnos 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 Evan Osnos's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the December 24, 1976 birth date.
What is Evan Osnos's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 24, 1976 birth date.
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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