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.

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 was Jim Dwyer's Life Path number?

Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.

What was Jim Dwyer's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Aquarius at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.

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.

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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

Your match with Jim

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

The SSA recorded 3,543 American boys and 8 girls named Jim in 1957: 106th among boys and 4,693rd among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jim’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · direction and scale

Soul Urge · freedom

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on J (1) and closes on M (4).

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

Jim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1957, 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 Jim apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary came in 1995, when Jim Dwyer was 38.

The schooling ran through Loyola School and Fordham University.

Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer.

Wikipedia files Jim Dwyer under Wrongful conviction advocacy, New York Daily News people and Loyola School (New York City) alumni.

Mykelti Williamson shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at: Loyola School, Fordham University and Columbia University
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1995)
Cause of death: lung cancer
Citizenship: United States
Languages: English
Wikipedia editions: 11

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. Working below.

Where Jim sits

Six lines

Jim’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Castor, in Gemini, 80.2° up.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

New York City sits at 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 11% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 35° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in: New York City, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2020.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jim Dwyer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Jim's chart is

Chart pattern score

46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Pisces · No Air 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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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.

What Pisces means →

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.

What the Rooster means →

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.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Jim’s chart

The tightest major aspect in Jim Dwyer's date-only chart is Sun square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
Jim Dwyer combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.

Jim’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Aries depending on the hour.

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.

Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

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

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
stableUranussquareNeptune1.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto4.1° to 5.3° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus4.9° orb
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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

⚷ ChironAquarius 14°21′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 28°56′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 16°12′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 9°15′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 20°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

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°

Jim’s dominant planets

1. ♆ Neptune10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Jim’s chart

Stellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

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

Born the same day as Jim

Mykelti Williamson was born on March 4, 1957 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. New York City 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.

Mykelti WilliamsonAmerican actor and director

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Year of the Rooster →

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What a Day Master is →

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The Evergreen Seeker explained →

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Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained

Jim’s cards

Computed from March 4, 1957. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

Western zodiac

Chinese zodiac

Life Path

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3178791 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Jim Dwyer's Life Path number?: Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Jim Dwyer's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Aquarius at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.