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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Jim
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
Of the names registered in 1940, Jim came 78th among boys and 2,154th among girls, carried by 2,715 American boys and 15 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jim’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
8
Soul Urge · achievement
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
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
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 1939, 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
Jim Hoagland took the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1971, at 31.
Rock Hill High School and University of South Carolina shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as stroke.
On the family side, Jim Hoagland was married Jane Stanton Hitchcock.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jim Hoagland: People from Rock Hill, South Carolina, University of South Carolina alumni and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni.
The same date carries John Hurt and John Menard, Jr.. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Rock Hill High School and University of South Carolina
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1991) and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1971)
- Cause of death
- stroke
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
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. Working below.
Where Jim sits
Six lines
Jim’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 Jim Hoagland
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rock Hill 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 Rock Hill that night
Computed for 34.94°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkib stood nearest the zenith over Rock Hill at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.6° above the horizon in Perseus.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 34.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Rock Hill on any night.
Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon up and 95% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Rock Hill, United States
The death is recorded at Washington, D.C., District of Columbia in 2024.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jim Hoagland: 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
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Saturn
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 →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, 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.
What Aquarius means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitQuiet luck follows.
Jim Hoagland was born on January 22, 1940, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Jim Hoagland's birth date, January 22, 1940, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Jim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jim Hoagland's date-only chart is Sun opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jim Hoagland combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Jim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Gemini or Cancer 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
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
stableJupitertrinePluto2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.4° to 7.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.7° to 6.3° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.7° to 6.7° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 16°04′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 19°35′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 23°23′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 13°30′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Jim’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Jim’s chart
T-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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Born the same day as Jim
2 other people here were born on January 22, 1940, 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 34.9°N, the sky above Rock Hill stops at −55.1° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Other Evergreen Scholars
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Jim’s cards
Computed from January 22, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5808144 (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.
The same Jim Hoagland at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Jim Hoagland's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jim Hoagland's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
