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Jim Hoagland

Jim Hoagland (born January 22, 1940, Rock Hill, United States; died 2024), was an American journalist. Hoagland's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

Jim Hoagland’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Jim Hoagland’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

1 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Jim, according to the stars

Core essence

Jim is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Jim is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

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 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. Jim 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: Jim is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Jim is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Jim leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Jim gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jim

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Jim

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jim

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Jim

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jim

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rock Hill on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

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.

Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

Jim Hoagland's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 22, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Earth Rabbit

Quiet luck follows.

Jim Hoagland was born on January 22, 1940, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Jim Hoagland's birth date, January 22, 1940, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Jim’s chart

Jim’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Jim Hoagland, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Gemini or Cancer 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 faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.2° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.2° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.5° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.5° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.8° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.5° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 4.2° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 5.5° orbSun in Aquarius · 1°32′Moon in Cancer · 0°50′Mercury in Capricorn · 25°32′25°Venus in Pisces · 5°04′Mars in Aries · 12°44′12°Jupiter in Aries · 4°18′Saturn in Aries · 25°01′25°Uranus in Taurus · 17°59′ · retrograde17°Neptune in Virgo · 25°20′ · retrograde25°Pluto in Leo · 1°47′ · retrograde

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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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.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Jim’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 1.3° orb

    Jim’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Jim’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb

    Jim’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto2.4° to 2.6° orb

    Jim’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.4° to 7.1° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.7° to 6.3° orb

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

  • stableSuntrineNeptune5.7° to 6.7° orb

    Jim’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb

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

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

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.

  • ChironCancer 16°04′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Jim is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • CeresVirgo 19°35′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Jim caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ErosScorpio 23°23′ (moves 0.73° over the day)

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

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Jim is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • HygieaAquarius 13°30′ (moves 0.38° 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. Jim is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • Black Moon LilithPisces 14°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Jim is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Hygiea sextile Mars 0.8°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.6°
  • Chiron sextile Uranus 1.9°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 2.0°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.1°

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. Sun5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. Mercury5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. Saturn4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Jim is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun quintile Mars 0.8°
  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Venus quintile Uranus 0.9°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.3°

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

Born the same day as Jim

2 other people here were born on January 22, 1940, 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

Every card is computed from January 22, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

yin Earth

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yin Fire

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Wood

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Jim Hoagland, 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 Q5808144, 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.

The same Jim Hoagland at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 Hoagland.

Quick answers about Jim Hoagland’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jim Hoagland?
Jim Hoagland was an Aquarius: born January 22, 1940, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit.
What was Jim Hoagland's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 22, 1940 birth.
What time was Jim Hoagland 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 Hoagland's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 22, 1940 birth date.
What was Jim Hoagland's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 22, 1940 birth date.
Where was Jim Hoagland's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jim Hoagland's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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