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Jim Morin

Jim Morin (born January 30, 1953, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 73, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. Morin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and Herblock Prize.

Jim Morin’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Jim Morin’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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 1953, Jim came 173rd among boys and 4,788th among girls, carried by 1,535 American boys and 7 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jim’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

6

Soul Urge · being needed

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on J (1) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

4 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1952, 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 Morin took the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1996, at 43.

Training came by way of Syracuse University.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jim Morin: Painters from Washington, D.C., Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts alumni and Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning winners.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882) and Felipe VI of Spain (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Syracuse University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1996) and Herblock Prize (2007)
Citizenship
United States
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.

The vibe

Underneath, Jim needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Jim needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

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 refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Jim 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: Jim is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Jim is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Jim slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jim

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

PrivateExpressive
Jim

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

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.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Jim’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 82.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 82.2° 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 Washington that night

Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Washington at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 7.5° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Washington at all: they sit past the −51.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.

How unusual Jim's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Mars · T-square onto Jupiter

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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The quick version

Aquarius Sun

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

Jim Morin's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 30, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Water Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Jim Morin was born on January 30, 1953, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Jim Morin's birth date, January 30, 1953, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Jim’s chart

Jim’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.5° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.4° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.4° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.8° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 3.8° orbMoon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4° orbSun in Aquarius · 10°32′☉10°Moon in Leo · 18°22′☽18°Mercury in Aquarius · 8°13′☿8°Venus in Pisces · 27°26′♀27°Mars in Pisces · 23°40′♂23°Jupiter in Taurus · 12°04′♃12°Saturn in Libra · 27°16′♄27°Uranus in Cancer · 15°31′ · retrograde♅℞15°Neptune in Libra · 23°53′ · retrograde♆℞23°Pluto in Leo · 22°20′ · retrograde♇℞22°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSunsquareJupiter1.1° to 2.0° orb

    Jim’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.0° to 2.6° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter3.0° to 4.6° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus3.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.4° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars3.6° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.4° to 12.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 2.4° to 13.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

Jim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 16°28′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 3°45′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 7°37′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 15°48′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 4°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.3°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 0.6°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.0°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 2.9°

Jim’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Jim’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Mars · Neptune, Pluto, MarsTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus quincunx Saturn 0.2°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 0.4°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.4°
  • Venus biquintile Pluto 0.9°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 1.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.9°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 1.9°

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From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?

Jim’s cards

Computed from January 30, 1953. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6197016 (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 Fuzheado, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jim Morin at Wikipedia 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 Morin.

Quick answers about Jim Morin’s chart

How old is Jim Morin?
Jim Morin is 73 years old, born January 30, 1953 in Washington, D.C., United States.
What zodiac sign is Jim Morin?
Jim Morin is an Aquarius: born January 30, 1953, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Jim Morin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 30, 1953 birth.
What is Jim Morin's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Jim Morin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jim Morin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jim Morin's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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