Kai Bird
Kai Bird (born September 2, 1951, Eugene, United States), aged 75, is an American journalist. Bird's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Guggenheim Fellowship and National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography.
Kai Bird’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Kai
Kai Bird’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Kai in the U.S.?
#93
US rank in 2025
~78,710
Americans share it since 1926
2022
its peak year
The SSA recorded 14 American boys named Kai in 1951: 2,099th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kai’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
1
Soul Urge · independence
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on K (2) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kai’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, 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 Kai apart
The National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography came in 2005, when Kai Bird was 54.
Kai Bird was taught at Medill School of Journalism and Kodaikanal International School.
Kai Bird was married Susan Goldmark.
Wikipedia files Kai Bird under Watson Fellows, Historians of nuclear weapons and Medill School of Journalism alumni.
Keir Starmer (1962) and Keanu Reeves (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Medill School of Journalism, Kodaikanal International School and Carleton College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2006) and National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography (2005)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Kai, according to the stars
Core essence
Kai notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Kai is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Kai wants to be loved
Kai wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Kai and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Kai creates
How Kai 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. Kai 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: Kai 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Kai is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Kai fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Kai's birth date. Working below.
Where Kai sits
Six lines
Kai’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Kai Bird
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Eugene 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 Eugene that night
Computed for 44.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Eugene at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.7° above the horizon in Lyra.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
Eugene sits at 44.1°N, high enough that Capella never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −45.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 13° below the horizon, Moon down and 3% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Eugene, United States
- Lives in
- Washington, D.C.
Wikidata records Washington, D.C. as Kai Bird's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Kai Bird: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Kai's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Uranus · Venus retrograde
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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Kai Bird's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 2, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Kai Bird was born on September 2, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Kai Bird's birth date, September 2, 1951, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Kai’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kai Bird's date-only chart is Jupiter square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Kai Bird 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.
Kai’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Virgo or Libra 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
stableJupitersquareUranus0.2° to 0.3° orb
Kai’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.5° to 2.1° orb
Kai’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileUranus1.9° to 2.5° orb
Kai’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter2.6° to 3.3° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.1° to 4.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.7° to 5.4° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.8° to 6.0° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 1.5° to 14.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 4.9° to 17.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Kai’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 26°48′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 9°42′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aries 21°14′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 15°31′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 6°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Sun 0.2°
- Ceres opposition Venus 1.1°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.7°
Kai’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Kai’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.0°
More people like Kai
Other historians
- Eric Foner1943
- Alan Taylor1955
- Mike Wallace1942
- Elizabeth A. Fenn1959
- David M. Kennedy1941
- Bill Dedman1960
Born in United States
- Robin WilliamsAmerican actor and comedian
- Michael KeatonAmerican actor
- Chris CooperAmerican actor (1951-)
- Jeffrey LurieAmerican football owner, CEO, film producer
- Anjelica HustonAmerican actress (born 1951)
- Joe PantolianoAmerican actor
More charts like Kai’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Susan SheehanAmerican journalist
- Elizabeth A. FennAmerican historian and professor
- Stephen KurkjianAmerican journalist
Born in Rabbit years
- Tristin McCollumAmerican football player
- Vederian LoweAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Nick ZakeljAmerican football player (born 1999)
Also born on September 2
- Keir Starmer1962
- Keanu Reeves1964
- Salma Hayek1966
- Carlos Valderrama1961
- Katt Williams1973
- Damson Idris1991
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Quenton JacksonAmerican basketball player
- Davion MitchellAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Zyon PullinAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
Other Virgo Rabbit charts
- Ryan GuzmanAmerican actor
- Michael KeatonAmerican actor
- Sara RamirezMexican-American actor and singer
- Jean SmartAmerican actress (born 1951)
Other Evergreen Seekers
- Olivia DeanBritish singer
- Rob KardashianAmerican television personality and businessman
- Halima AdenAmerican-Somali fashion model
- Paolo BancheroAmerican basketball player
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Emile VerhaerenBelgian poet
- Joseph BathantiAmerican poet, novelist, professor
- Kathryn Stripling ByerAmerican poet
From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Kai’s cards
Computed from September 2, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kai’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6347357 (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 Nilgun Tolek, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kai Bird 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 Kai Bird.
Quick answers about Kai Bird’s chart
- How old is Kai Bird?
- Kai Bird is 75 years old, born September 2, 1951 in Eugene, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Kai Bird?
- Kai Bird is a Virgo: born September 2, 1951, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Kai Bird's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 2, 1951 birth.
- What is Kai Bird's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Kai Bird's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Kai Bird's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kai Bird's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
