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, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 33 in numerology.Your match with Gilbert
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
Gilbert ranked 184th among boys and 4,089th among girls in 1962, the year of this birth, with 1,625 American boys and 11 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gilbert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on G (7) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 9: tact against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gilbert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1962, 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 Gilbert apart
Gilbert King took the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2013, at 51.
Training came by way of Niskayuna High School and Excelsior College.
Wikipedia's editors put Gilbert King under People from Rockville Centre, New York, Excelsior College alumni and Writers from Schenectady, New York.
The same date carries Steve Irwin. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Niskayuna High School and Excelsior College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2013)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
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. Working below.
Where Gilbert sits
Six lines
Gilbert’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Gilbert King
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rockville Centre 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 Rockville Centre that night
Computed for 40.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Rockville Centre at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 9.3° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 89% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 38° below the horizon.
How unusual Gilbert's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Aquarius · A leaning bowl
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 →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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 33 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Libra 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
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
stableVenustrineNeptune2.9° to 4.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune4.7° to 5.2° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus4.8° to 5.8° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus5.3° to 5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.2° to 6.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.4° to 6.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 6°10′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 20°43′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 8°38′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 4°49′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 12°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Gilbert’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Gilbert’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
Born the same day as Gilbert
Steve Irwin was born on February 22, 1962 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Rockville Centre sits at 40.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Gilbert
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Born in United States
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- Adam BaldwinAmerican actor
- Paul SalopekAmerican newspaper editor
- Grant Showactor
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More charts like Gilbert’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- K. MichelleAmerican singer
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Born in Tiger years
- Kurt WüthrichSwiss chemist (born 1938)
- Masatoshi KoshibaJapanese physicist and astronomer
- Ryōji NoyoriJapanese chemist (1938 - )
Also born on February 22
- George Washington1732
- Heinrich Hertz1857
- Drew Barrymore1975
- Steve Irwin1962
- Sergio Romero1987
- Kyle MacLachlan1959
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Sean SpicerAmerican political strategist and former White House Press Secretary and Communications Director for President Donald Trump
- Sigourney WeaverAmerican actress (born 1949)
- Venus WilliamsAmerican tennis player (born 1980)
Other Pisces Tiger charts
- Grant Showactor
- Will JordanNew Zealand rugby union player
- Obi ToppinAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Justin HerbertAmerican football player (born 1998)
Other Gilded Healers
- Vanna WhiteAmerican model and game show hostess
- Peyton Elizabeth LeeAmerican actress
- Count Felix of MonpezatDanish former prince; younger son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
- George HamiltonAmerican film and television actor
Famous people with Life Path 33
- William GibsonAmerican-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
- Richard MarquandBritish film director
- Peter NichollsAustralian literary scholar and critic
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Gilbert’s cards
Computed from February 22, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
33 · Lightkeeper♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gilbert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15429559 (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 Gilbert King, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gilbert King at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gilbert King.
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.
- 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 is Gilbert King's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gilbert King's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
