Keyes Beech
Keyes Beech (born August 13, 1913, Pulaski, United States; died 1990), was an American journalist. Beech's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Keyes Beech’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Keyes
Keyes Beech’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
What Keyes’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
2
Soul Urge · closeness
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on K (2) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Keyes’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
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 1913, 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 Keyes apart
The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting came in 1951, when Keyes Beech was 38.
Keyes Beech lies at Arlington National Cemetery.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Pulaski, Tennessee, Journalists from Tennessee and United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II.
Sebastian Stan (1982) and Domenico Dolce (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1951)
- Buried at
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Keyes, according to the stars
Core essence
Keyes is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Keyes is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Keyes 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 Keyes needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Keyes wants to be loved
Keyes wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Keyes gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Keyes creates
How Keyes makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Keyes creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Keyes is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Keyes is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Keyes scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Keyes's birth date. Working below.
Where Keyes sits
Six lines
Keyes’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Keyes Beech
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pulaski 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 Pulaski that night
Computed for 35.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Pulaski at 9 p.m. that evening: Sheliak of Lyra, within 2.5° of the exact zenith.
Of the 80 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Pulaski sits at 35.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −54.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Pulaski on any night.
The Moon, 93% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 25° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Pulaski, United States
The death is recorded at Washington, D.C., District of Columbia in 1990.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Keyes Beech: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Keyes's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet · 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 →Keyes Beech at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Keyes Beech's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 13, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Keyes Beech was born on August 13, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Keyes Beech's birth date, August 13, 1913, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Keyes’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Keyes Beech's date-only chart is Venus opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Keyes Beech combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Keyes’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° 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
stableVenusoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Keyes’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.7° orb
Keyes’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysextileMars3.1° to 3.8° orb
Keyes’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileSaturn3.8° to 4.6° orb
stableMarstrineUranus4.8° to 5.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.8° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.5° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 1.2° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 5.0° to 17.4° depending on birth time
possibleVenusconjunctionPlutoorb from 7.4° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleJupiteroppositionPlutoorb from 8.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Keyes’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 13°48′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 22°23′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 10°54′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°38′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 18°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mars 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Ceres square Sun 2.0°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.1°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.2°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.4°
Keyes’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Keyes’s chart
Yod onto Jupiter · Mercury, Mars, JupiterTwo 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.
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.6°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.1°
More people like Keyes
Other journalists
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- Claude Sitton1925
- Edward S. Montgomery1910
- Russell Baker1925
- Hal Boyle1911
- Henry Kamm1925
Born in United States
- William IngeAmerican playwright and novelist
- Alfred BesterAmerican author
- Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.American newspaperman and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Morton GouldAmerican composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist
- Risë StevensAmerican opera singer, vocalist and actress
- Mary MartinAmerican actress
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on August 13
- Sebastian Stan1982
- Domenico Dolce1958
- Fidel Castro1926
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Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Pierre OmidyarAmerican entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
- Viktor VekselbergRussian–Cypriot oligarch and businessman
- Alexander MamutRussian billionaire
Other Leo Ox charts
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- Micheal ClemonsAmerican football defensive end
- Charles OmenihuAmerican football defensive end
- Scotty MillerAmerican football wide receiver
Other Radiant Scholars
- Paul GeorgeAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
- Kevin HuerterAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Tre MannAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Jalen WilsonAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Condoleezza RiceAmerican diplomat and political scientist (born 1954)
- John BoltonAmerican lawyer and diplomat (born 1948)
- Chris Van HollenUnited States Senator from Maryland
From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Keyes’s cards
Computed from August 13, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Keyes’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15441373 (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 Keyes Beech at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Keyes Beech.
Quick answers about Keyes Beech’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Keyes Beech?
- Keyes Beech was a Leo: born August 13, 1913, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Keyes Beech's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 13, 1913 birth.
- What was Keyes Beech's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Keyes Beech's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Keyes Beech's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Keyes Beech's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
