Gary Webb
Gary Webb (born August 31, 1955, Corona, United States; died 2004), was an American investigative journalist. Webb's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting and James Aronson Award.
Gary Webb’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Gary
Gary Webb’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Gary in the U.S.?
#1073
US rank in 2025
~905,438
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1955, Gary came 12th among boys and 1,084th among girls, carried by 34,433 American boys and 87 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gary’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on G (7) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gary’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
Peridot, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Lilac · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
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 male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Gary apart
Gary Webb took the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1990, at 35.
Training came by way of Northern Kentucky University.
The working life starts in 1980, at 25.
Cause of death is recorded as gunshot wound.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Gary Webb: People from Corona, California, Multiple gunshot suicides and Suicides by firearm in California.
Richard Gere (1949) and Queen Rania of Jordan (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Northern Kentucky University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting (1990)
- Working from
- 1980
- Cause of death
- gunshot wound
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 19
What the chart says
Gary, according to the stars
Core essence
Gary notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Gary is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Gary 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 Gary 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 Gary wants to be loved
Gary wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Gary and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Gary creates
How Gary makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Gary builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Gary 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. Gary 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Gary channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Gary's birth date. Working below.
Where Gary sits
Six lines
Gary’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Gary Webb
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Corona 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 Corona that night
Computed for 33.87°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Corona at 9 p.m. that evening: Sheliak of Lyra, within 0.6° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 80 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 33.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 20° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Corona, United States
The death is recorded at Carmichael, Sacramento County in 2004.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Gary Webb: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Gary's chart is
Chart pattern score
75 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bundled chart · T-square onto Saturn
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
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Gary Webb's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 31, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Gary Webb was born on August 31, 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.
Gary Webb's birth date, August 31, 1955, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Gary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gary Webb's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gary Webb combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Gary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Aquarius 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
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.0° to 0.3° orb
Gary’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
Gary’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.7° to 2.1° orb
Gary’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.0° to 1.2° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars4.4° to 5.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars4.6° to 5.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto5.6° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.8° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 1.4° to 14.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Gary’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 0°53′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 11°16′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 13°33′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 29°28′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 19°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.5°
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.9°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.2°
- Eros square Saturn 2.4°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.6°
Gary’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Gary’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.2°
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Born in Goat years
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- Queen Rania of Jordan1970
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Britt StewartAmerican dancer (born 1989)
- Reginald VelJohnsonAmerican actor
- Kevin SmithAmerican filmmaker (born 1970)
Other Virgo Goat charts
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Other Evergreen Explorers
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- Max EhrichAmerican actor, singer, and dancer
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- David HasselhoffAmerican actor, singer, producer, and businessman (born 1952)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Pieter ZeemanDutch physicist
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- William LipscombNobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Gary’s cards
Computed from August 31, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1346239 (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 Gary Webb at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gary Webb.
Quick answers about Gary Webb’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gary Webb?
- Gary Webb was a Virgo: born August 31, 1955, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Gary Webb's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 31, 1955 birth.
- What was Gary Webb's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gary Webb's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Gary Webb's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gary Webb's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
