Jose Antonio Vargas
Jose Antonio Vargas (born February 3, 1981, Antipolo, Philippines), aged 45, is a Filipino journalist, immigration activist. Vargas's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, The Sidney Award and Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize.
Jose Antonio Vargas’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Jose
Jose Antonio Vargas’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Jose in the U.S.?
#95
US rank in 2025
~596,732
Americans share it since 1880
2002
its peak year
The SSA recorded 8,773 American boys and 75 girls named Jose in 1981: 45th among boys and 1,571st among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jose’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jose’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1980, 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 Jose apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting came in 2008, when Jose Antonio Vargas was 27.
Study took Jose Antonio Vargas to Mountain View High School and Mountain View Whisman School District.
Wikipedia files Jose Antonio Vargas under Filipino gay writers, People from Antipolo and Gay journalists.
Isla Fisher (1976) and Daddy Yankee (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Mountain View High School, Mountain View Whisman School District and San Francisco State University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting (2008), Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize (2013) and The Sidney Award (2011)
- Citizenship
- Philippines
- Languages
- Filipino
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
What the chart says
Jose, according to the stars
Core essence
Jose is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Jose 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, Jose is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Jose needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Jose wants to be loved
Jose wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Jose you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Jose creates
How Jose makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Jose creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Jose is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Jose is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Jose goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Jose's birth date. Working below.
Where Jose sits
Six lines
Jose’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 Jose Antonio Vargas
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Antipolo 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 Antipolo that night
Computed for 14.58°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Antipolo at 9 p.m. that evening: Betelgeuse of Orion, within 7.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Antipolo sits at 14.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.
How unusual Jose's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Jose Antonio Vargas's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 3, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyWit is the tool.
Jose Antonio Vargas was born on February 3, 1981, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Jose Antonio Vargas's birth date, February 3, 1981, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Jose’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jose Antonio Vargas' date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jose Antonio Vargas combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Jose’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Capricorn 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb
Jose’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileUranus0.5° to 1.7° orb
Jose’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.7° orb
Jose’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareUranus2.3° to 3.2° orb
stableMarssquareUranus2.3° to 3.1° orb
stableMarstrinePluto2.3° to 3.1° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune2.5° to 3.3° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableVenussquarePluto3.7° to 4.9° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.4° to 5.5° orb
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Jose’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 13°28′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 15°38′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°21′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 23°20′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 3°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Sun 0.8°
- Eros square Pluto 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.5°
Jose’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Jose’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°
More people like Jose
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- Will Hobson1984
- Trymaine Lee1978
- Vasilisa Stepanenko1999
- Farah Stockman1974
- Joseph Rago1983
Born in Philippines
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on February 3
- Isla Fisher1976
- Daddy Yankee1976
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- Sean Kingston1990
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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Jose’s cards
Computed from February 3, 1981. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jose’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1865602 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jose Antonio Vargas at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jose Antonio Vargas.
Quick answers about Jose Antonio Vargas’s chart
- How old is Jose Antonio Vargas?
- Jose Antonio Vargas is 45 years old, born February 3, 1981 in Antipolo, Philippines.
- What zodiac sign is Jose Antonio Vargas?
- Jose Antonio Vargas is an Aquarius: born February 3, 1981, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Jose Antonio Vargas's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 3, 1981 birth.
- What is Jose Antonio Vargas's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jose Antonio Vargas's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jose Antonio Vargas's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jose Antonio Vargas's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
