Gilbert King
Gilbert King (born February 22, 1962, Rockville Centre, United States), aged 64, is an American journalist, writer and photographer. King's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Gilbert King’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Tiger, with 
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Gilbert King’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Gilbert in the U.S.?
#1330
US rank in 2025
~130,821
Americans share it since 1880
1930
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Gilbert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
33 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Gilbert, according to the stars
Core essence
Gilbert feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Gilbert 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Gilbert cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Gilbert needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Gilbert wants to be loved
Gilbert wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Gilbert, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Gilbert creates
How Gilbert makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Gilbert creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Gilbert 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Gilbert is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Gilbert goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Gilbert's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gilbert sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Gilbert King's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 22, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Gilbert King was born on February 22, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 33
Life Path 33Serves first, rests never.
Gilbert King's birth date, February 22, 1962, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 33 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with teaching through care, service and example. Numerologists read it as an intensified 6, the nurturer's instinct turned toward a community rather than a household. The corresponding tension is self-sacrifice, with the caution that giving at that scale needs a source that is also being filled.
What stands out in Gilbert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gilbert King's date-only chart is Venus opposition Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gilbert King combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Gilbert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Gilbert King, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMoontrineMercury0.0° to 6.4° orb
Gilbert’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.3° to 1.6° orb
Gilbert’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssquareNeptune2.3° to 3.1° orb
Gilbert’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.5° to 2.8° orb
Gilbert’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableVenustrineNeptune2.9° to 4.1° orb
Gilbert’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
Gilbert’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareNeptune4.7° to 5.2° orb
Gilbert’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableSunoppositionUranus4.8° to 5.8° orb
Gilbert’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunoppositionPluto4.9° to 5.9° orb
Gilbert’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus5.3° to 5.6° orb
Gilbert’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.2° to 6.5° orb
Gilbert’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.4° to 6.9° orb
Gilbert’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Gilbert’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 6°10′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Gilbert absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 20°43′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Gilbert is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosPisces 8°38′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Gilbert is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 4°49′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Gilbert is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 12°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Gilbert exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.0°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.3°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.1°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 2.6°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.8°
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°).
Gilbert’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. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Gilbert is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Gilbert’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.
Stellium in Aquarius · Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, 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.
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.
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gilbert King, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Gilbert
Steve Irwin was born on February 22, 1962 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Gilbert’s cards
Every card is computed from February 22, 1962, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Gilbert King, 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
Gilbert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15429559, 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 Gilbert King, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gilbert King at Wikipedia.
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 Gilbert King’s chart
- How old is Gilbert King?
- Gilbert King is 64 years old, born February 22, 1962 in Rockville Centre, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Gilbert King?
- Gilbert King is a Pisces: born February 22, 1962, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger.
- What is Gilbert King's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 22, 1962 birth.
- What time was Gilbert King 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 Gilbert King's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology from the February 22, 1962 birth date.
- What is Gilbert King's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 22, 1962 birth date.
- Where is Gilbert King's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gilbert King's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
