Kenneth R. Weiss
Kenneth R. Weiss (born May 28, 1957, Covina, United States), aged 69, is an American journalist. Weiss's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, George Polk Award and Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science.
Kenneth R. Weiss’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Kenneth
Kenneth R. Weiss’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Kenneth in the U.S.?
#294
US rank in 2025
~1,289,312
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1957, Kenneth came 14th among boys and 1,174th among girls, carried by 28,064 American boys and 81 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kenneth’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on K (2) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kenneth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet
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 1957, 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 Kenneth apart
Kenneth R. Weiss took the George Polk Award in 2006, at 49.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of California, Berkeley.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Kenneth R. Weiss: Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners, UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni and Los Angeles Times people.
Kylie Minogue (1968) and Marco Rubio (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- George Polk Award (2006), Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (2007) and Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science (2007)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
What the chart says
Kenneth, according to the stars
Core essence
Kenneth is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Kenneth needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Kenneth wants to be loved
Kenneth wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Kenneth like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Kenneth creates
How Kenneth makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Kenneth creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Kenneth is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Kenneth 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 Kenneth leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Kenneth does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Kenneth's birth date. Working below.
Where Kenneth sits
Six lines
Kenneth’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 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 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 Kenneth R. Weiss
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Covina 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 Covina that night
Computed for 34.09°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Covina was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 84.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Covina on any night.
Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
How unusual Kenneth's chart is
Chart pattern score
13 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl · 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 →The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Kenneth R. Weiss's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 28, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Kenneth R. Weiss was born on May 28, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Kenneth R. Weiss's birth date, May 28, 1957, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Kenneth’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kenneth R. Weiss' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Kenneth R. Weiss combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Kenneth’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMercurysextileMars1.6° to 1.7° orb
Kenneth’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
Kenneth’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareJupiter2.5° to 3.7° orb
Kenneth’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunsextileUranus2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.6° to 4.7° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 2.5° to 14.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 6.1° to 19.6° depending on birth time
possibleVenusoppositionSaturnorb from 6.9° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Kenneth’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 17°25′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 2°46′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 27°45′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 8°00′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 0°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.1°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.2°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.5°
Kenneth’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus2 pts
disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Kenneth’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.
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.0°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.2°
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Kenneth’s cards
Computed from May 28, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kenneth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6390624 (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 Kenneth R. Weiss at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kenneth R. Weiss.
Quick answers about Kenneth R. Weiss’s chart
- How old is Kenneth R. Weiss?
- Kenneth R. Weiss is 69 years old, born May 28, 1957 in Covina, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Kenneth R. Weiss?
- Kenneth R. Weiss is a Gemini: born May 28, 1957, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Kenneth R. Weiss's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 28, 1957 birth.
- What is Kenneth R. Weiss's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Kenneth R. Weiss's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Kenneth R. Weiss's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kenneth R. Weiss's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
