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Farah Stockman

Farah Stockman (born May 21, 1974, East Lansing, United States), aged 52, is an American journalist. Stockman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

Farah Stockman’s zodiac sign is Taurus or Gemini (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Wood Tiger, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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

#1350

US rank in 2025

~6,376

Americans share it since 1960

2012

its peak year

The SSA recorded 47 American girls named Farah in 1974: 1,857th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Farah’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

9

Soul Urge · meaning

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on F (6) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Farah’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

—

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Emerald, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌸 Green Orchid

Ivory · Botanical green

The record

What sets Farah apart

Andrei Sakharov (1921) and The Notorious B.I.G. (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Farah, according to the stars

How Farah wants to be loved

Farah wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Farah creates

How Farah makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Farah creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Farah is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Farah is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Farah 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 Farah's birth date. Working below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above East Lansing 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 East Lansing that night

Computed for 42.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at East Lansing at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 10.9° of the exact zenith.

Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

East Lansing sits at 42.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, was still up; the Sun sat 0° below the horizon.

How unusual Farah's chart is

Chart pattern score

42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mars · No Earth planets · 1 planet at a critical degree

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

Taurus or Gemini Sun

Farah Stockman was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Wood Tiger

Leads by moving.

Farah Stockman was born on May 21, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 11

Intuition before evidence.

Farah Stockman's birth date, May 21, 1974, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Farah’s chart

Farah’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Mars · Square, 0.1° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.6° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.9° orbSun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 2.5° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.8° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 4° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun in Gemini · 0°13′☉0°Moon in Taurus · 27°41′☽27°Mercury in Gemini · 18°19′☿18°Venus in Aries · 18°56′♀18°Mars in Cancer · 18°49′♂18°Jupiter in Pisces · 14°31′♃14°Saturn in Cancer · 3°19′♄3°Uranus in Libra · 24°22′ · retrograde♅℞24°Neptune in Sagittarius · 8°28′ · retrograde♆℞8°Pluto in Libra · 4°13′ · retrograde♇℞4°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableVenussquareMars0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Farah’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.3° to 0.9° orb

    Farah’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto0.8° to 1.0° orb

    Farah’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter3.0° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSuntrinePluto3.5° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter4.1° to 4.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus4.8° to 6.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus5.2° to 6.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus5.2° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 22°40′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 8°60′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries or Pisces during this date

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 19°41′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 1°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Sun 0.0°
  • Ceres square Neptune 0.5°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.7°
  • Hygiea square Mars 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.7°

Farah’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Farah’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Venus, Uranus, MarsAn 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 biquintile Uranus 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Uranus semi-square Neptune 0.9°

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From the journal: Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why · Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say

Farah’s cards

Computed from May 21, 1974. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The High Priestess

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

11 · Visionary
The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Farah’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5434742 (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 New America, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Farah Stockman 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 Farah Stockman.

Quick answers about Farah Stockman’s chart

How old is Farah Stockman?
Farah Stockman is 52 years old, born May 21, 1974 in East Lansing, United States.
What zodiac sign is Farah Stockman?
Farah Stockman was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
What is Farah Stockman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 21, 1974 birth.
What is Farah Stockman's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Farah Stockman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Farah Stockman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Farah Stockman'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 Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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