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Lewis M. Simons

Lewis M. Simons (born January 9, 1939, Paterson, United States), aged 87, is an American journalist. Simons's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and George Polk Award.

Lewis M. Simons’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Lewis M. Simons’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Pioneer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Lewis in the U.S.?

#433

US rank in 2025

~156,636

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

Lewis ranked 107th among boys and 2,833rd among girls in 1939, the year of this birth, with 1,856 American boys and 10 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Lewis’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

11

Soul Urge · insight

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Lewis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1938, 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 Lewis apart

Lewis M. Simons took the George Polk Award in 1985, at 46.

New York University shaped the training.

Catherine, Princess of Wales (1982) and Jimmy Page (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
New York University
Awards
George Polk Award (1985) and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1986)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
2

What the chart says

Lewis, according to the stars

Core essence

Lewis is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Lewis is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Lewis is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Lewis needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Lewis wants to be loved

Lewis 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 Lewis and watch them fall for you again.

How Lewis creates

How Lewis 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. Lewis 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: Lewis is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Lewis is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Lewis runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Lewis's birth date. Working below.

Where Lewis sits

Six lines

Lewis’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Lewis

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Lewis

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Lewis

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lewis

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
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You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
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You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Lewis M. Simons

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Paterson on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Lewis’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 83° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 79° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Paterson that night

Computed for 40.92°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Menkib stood nearest the zenith over Paterson at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.0° above the horizon in Perseus.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 40.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 76% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.

How unusual Lewis's chart is

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Air planets · 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.

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Lewis M. Simons in 15 seconds

Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Lewis M. Simons's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 9, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Earth Tiger

Big heart, short fuse.

Lewis M. Simons was born on January 9, 1939, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Lewis M. Simons's birth date, January 9, 1939, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Lewis’s chart

Lewis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.7° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.5° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.8° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.1° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.3° orbMars faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 4° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.6° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.7° orbSun in Capricorn · 18°33′☉18°Moon in Virgo · 12°09′☽12°Mercury in Sagittarius · 26°37′☿26°Venus in Sagittarius · 3°41′♀3°Mars in Scorpio · 17°53′♂17°Jupiter in Pisces · 2°10′♃2°Saturn in Aries · 11°50′♄11°Uranus in Taurus · 13°54′ · retrograde♅℞13°Neptune in Virgo · 23°17′ · retrograde♆℞23°Pluto in Leo · 0°38′ · retrograde♇℞0°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileMars0.5° to 0.9° orb

    Lewis’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter1.2° to 1.8° orb

    Lewis’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableVenustrinePluto2.6° to 3.5° orb

    Lewis’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune2.7° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus3.7° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus4.1° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune4.2° to 5.2° orb

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 13.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.6° to 15.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 2.8° to 17.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.

Lewis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 6°21′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 14°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 2°07′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 12°15′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 0.2°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 0.4°
  • Eros opposition Pluto 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.5°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.6°

Lewis’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun

  3. 3. ♀ Venus3 pts

    disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Lewis’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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
  • Mars biquintile Saturn 0.1°
  • Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.4°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.5°

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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection

Lewis’s cards

Computed from January 9, 1939. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Lewis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q50409668 (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.

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Quick answers about Lewis M. Simons’s chart

How old is Lewis M. Simons?
Lewis M. Simons is 87 years old, born January 9, 1939 in Paterson, United States.
What zodiac sign is Lewis M. Simons?
Lewis M. Simons is a Capricorn: born January 9, 1939, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Lewis M. Simons's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 9, 1939 birth.
What is Lewis M. Simons's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Lewis M. Simons's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Lewis M. Simons's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Lewis M. Simons's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (4 points: disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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