Leonard Pitts
Leonard Pitts (born October 11, 1957, Orange County, United States), aged 69, is an American writer. Pitts's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award and Journalist of the Year.
Leonard Pitts’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Leonard
Leonard Pitts’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Leonard in the U.S.?
#637
US rank in 2025
~295,746
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Leonard ranked 94th among boys and 2,989th among girls in 1957, the year of this birth, with 4,340 American boys and 16 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Leonard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on L (3) and closes on D (4).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Leonard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
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 Leonard apart
Leonard Pitts took the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2004, at 47.
The classrooms behind this chart: John C. Fremont High School and University of Southern California.
Wikipedia's editors put Leonard Pitts under John C. Fremont High School alumni, African-American novelists and Miami Herald people.
Amitabh Bachchan (1942) and Michelle Trachtenberg (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- John C. Fremont High School and University of Southern California
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (2004), Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (2020) and Journalist of the Year (2008)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Leonard, according to the stars
Core essence
Leonard makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Leonard is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Leonard is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Leonard needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Leonard wants to be loved
Leonard wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Leonard and watch them fall for you again.
How Leonard creates
How Leonard 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. Leonard 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: Leonard 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 7 is the seeker. Leonard is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Leonard fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Leonard's birth date. Working below.
Where Leonard sits
Six lines
Leonard’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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Leonard Pitts
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Orange County 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 Orange County that night
Computed for 33.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Orange County was Scheat, in Pegasus, 81.2° up.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 33.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Orange County at all: they sit past the −56.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 45° below the horizon, Moon up and 90% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Orange County, United States
- Lives in
- Bowie
Wikidata records Bowie as Leonard Pitts'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 Leonard Pitts: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Leonard's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Leonard Pitts's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 11, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Leonard Pitts was born on October 11, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Leonard Pitts's birth date, October 11, 1957, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Leonard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Leonard Pitts' date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Leonard Pitts combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Leonard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Taurus 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
stableVenussquarePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
Leonard’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileUranus0.1° to 0.7° orb
Leonard’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb
Leonard’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.3° to 2.0° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus0.5° to 0.6° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn0.7° to 1.3° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus0.9° to 2.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter1.8° to 2.2° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.3° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.4° to 4.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Leonard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 12°19′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 23°04′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 27°03′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 12°32′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 15°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mars 0.8°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.9°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 1.1°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.0°
- Chiron trine Mercury 3.0°
Leonard’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Leonard’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Mars, JupiterThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.6°
More people like Leonard
Other journalists
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- David Willman1956
- Mary Jordan1960
- Bob Sipchen1953
- Alix M. Freedman1957
- Jim Dwyer1957
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on October 11
- Amitabh Bachchan1942
- Michelle Trachtenberg1985
- Amr Diab1961
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- Ifor ap GlynWelsh poet and television producer/presenter
- Selina Tusitala MarshNew Zealand poet-scholar
- Jackie KayScottish poet and novelist
Other Libra Rooster charts
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Other Radiant Visionarys
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- Vincente MinnelliAmerican stage and film director
- Anita BrooknerEnglish novelist and art historian
- Artur ÁvilaBrazilian and French mathematician
Famous people with Life Path 7
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Leonard’s cards
Computed from October 11, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Leonard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6525637 (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 anna Hanks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Leonard Pitts at Wikipedia and leonardpittsjr.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Leonard Pitts.
Quick answers about Leonard Pitts’s chart
- How old is Leonard Pitts?
- Leonard Pitts is 69 years old, born October 11, 1957 in Orange County, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Leonard Pitts?
- Leonard Pitts is a Libra: born October 11, 1957, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Leonard Pitts's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 11, 1957 birth.
- What is Leonard Pitts's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Leonard Pitts's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Leonard Pitts's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Leonard Pitts's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
