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Jim Dwyer

Jim Dwyer (born March 4, 1957, New York City, United States; died 2020), was an American journalist. Dwyer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

Jim Dwyer’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Jim Dwyer’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Seeker

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

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

#3159

US rank in 2025

~153,938

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Jim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

11 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet

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What the chart says

Jim, according to the stars

Core essence

Jim feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Jim 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, Jim runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Jim needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Jim wants to be loved

Jim 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 Jim, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Jim creates

How Jim makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Jim creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Jim is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Jim 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Jim is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Jim's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Jim sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Jim

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jim

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Jim

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jim

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Jim

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jim

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

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Jim’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 80.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 60.6° 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.

Jim Dwyer in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Feels it all, owns none of it.

Jim Dwyer's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 4, 1957, 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.

Fire Rooster

Says what everyone was thinking.

Jim Dwyer was born on March 4, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

Life Path 11

Sees what the rest missed.

Jim Dwyer's birth date, March 4, 1957, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.

What stands out in Jim’s chart

Jim’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Jim Dwyer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.1° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.1° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.2° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.5° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 2° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.2° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.5° orbSun in Pisces · 13°52′☉13°Moon in Aries · 17°29′☽17°Mercury in Pisces · 0°23′☿0°Venus in Pisces · 3°33′♀3°Mars in Taurus · 21°44′♂21°Jupiter in Virgo · 28°33′ · retrograde♃℞28°Saturn in Sagittarius · 14°00′♄13°Uranus in Leo · 3°26′ · retrograde♅℞3°Neptune in Scorpio · 2°21′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Leo · 28°51′ · retrograde♇℞28°

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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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

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.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Jim’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune0.6° to 1.8° orb

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

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.7° to 2.4° orb

    Jim’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune1.1° to 2.8° orb

    Jim’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune1.1° orb

    Jim’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.4° orb

    Jim’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb

    Jim’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto4.1° to 5.3° orb

    Jim’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus4.9° orb

    Jim’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 5.2° to 17.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMarstrineJupiterorb from 6.4° to 7.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.

Jim’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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 14°21′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Jim making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ CeresAries 28°56′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Jim looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

  • ♡ ErosAries 16°12′ (moves 0.76° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Jim is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 9°15′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Jim needing solitude to reset.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 20°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Jim at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

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.

  • Ceres trine Pluto 0.1°
  • Chiron sextile Saturn 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.0°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 1.4°
  • Eros trine Saturn 2.2°

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°).

Jim’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. ♆ Neptune10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Jim 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 Jim’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, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

  • Venus quincunx Uranus 0.1°
  • Mars quintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.8°

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

Born the same day as Jim

Mykelti Williamson was born on March 4, 1957 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Jim’s cards

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Birth tarot card

Judgement

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Seeker

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Jim Dwyer, 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

Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3178791, 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 JambonOnRye, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jim Dwyer at Wikipedia, nytimes.com 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jim Dwyer.

Quick answers about Jim Dwyer’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jim Dwyer?
Jim Dwyer was a Pisces: born March 4, 1957, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster.
What was Jim Dwyer's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 4, 1957 birth.
What time was Jim Dwyer 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 was Jim Dwyer's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the March 4, 1957 birth date.
What was Jim Dwyer's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 4, 1957 birth date.
Where was Jim Dwyer's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jim Dwyer's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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