Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse (born January 9, 1947, New York City, United States), aged 79, is an American journalist. Greenhouse's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, John Chancellor Award and Carey McWilliams Award.
Linda Greenhouse’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Linda
Linda Greenhouse’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Linda in the U.S.?
#902
US rank in 2025
~1,458,899
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1947, Linda came 1st among girls and 458th among boys, carried by 99,692 American girls and 216 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Linda’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on L (3) and closes on A (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
Linda’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 3 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
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 1946, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Linda apart
Linda Greenhouse took the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1998, at 51.
Training came by way of Yale Law School and Hamden High School.
Linda Greenhouse was raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Linda Greenhouse: American women legal scholars, Yale Law School alumni and Jewish American academics.
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
- Yale Law School, Hamden High School and Radcliffe College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting (1998), honorary doctor of the University of Miami (2004) and Henry Allen Moe Prize (2005)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Linda, according to the stars
Core essence
Linda is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Linda 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.
How Linda wants to be loved
Linda 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 Linda and watch them fall for you again.
How Linda creates
How Linda makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Linda creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Linda is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Linda is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Linda does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Linda's birth date. Working below.
Where Linda sits
Six lines
Linda’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Linda Greenhouse
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 6.9° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 88% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.
How unusual Linda's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · A leaning bowl
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 →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Linda Greenhouse's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 9, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Linda Greenhouse was born on January 9, 1947, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Linda Greenhouse's birth date, January 9, 1947, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Linda’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Linda Greenhouse's date-only chart is Mercury square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Linda Greenhouse combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Linda’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.0° to 1.3° orb
Linda’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.7° to 1.0° orb
Linda’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb
Linda’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileJupiter2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter3.8° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.9° to 6.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars7.1° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 2.9° to 16.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Linda’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 6°58′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 25°01′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 6°33′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 20°39′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 27°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.2°
- Eros square Saturn 0.2°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.9°
Linda’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Linda’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.5°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.4°
More people like Linda
Other journalists
- Barry Bearak1949
- Bernard L. Stein1941
- Chuck Philips1952
- Serge Schmemann1945
- Louis Kilzer1951
- Lucy Morgan1940
Born in United States
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- Pat SajakAmerican television host (born 1946)
- Stephen A. SchwarzmanAmerican businessman and investor
- Walter A. McDougallAmerican historian
- Michio KakuU.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author
- Susan SarandonAmerican actress and activist
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on January 9
- Catherine, Princess of Wales1982
- Jimmy Page1944
- Sean Paul1973
- Nicola Peltz1995
- Lee Kun-hee1942
- Dave Matthews1967
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Kathryn McGuireAmerican actress
- Carl WeathersAmerican actor and football player
- John GielgudBritish actor and theatre director
Other Capricorn Dog charts
- Maggie SmithEnglish actress
- Maggie SajakAmerican country music singer (born 1995)
- Clancy BrownAmerican actor (born 1959)
- Hubert KoundéFrench Benin actor and film director
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Bruno GanzSwiss actor
- Talia ShireAmerican actress
- Ariadna GilSpanish actress
- Joan AllenAmerican actress (born 1956)
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Patrick George RyanAmerican businessman
- Robert KuokMalaysian businessman
- Kentarō OgawaJapanese business manager
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Linda’s cards
Computed from January 9, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Linda’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6551610 (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 Charles Haynes, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Linda Greenhouse at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Linda Greenhouse.
Quick answers about Linda Greenhouse’s chart
- How old is Linda Greenhouse?
- Linda Greenhouse is 79 years old, born January 9, 1947 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Linda Greenhouse?
- Linda Greenhouse is a Capricorn: born January 9, 1947, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Linda Greenhouse's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 9, 1947 birth.
- What is Linda Greenhouse's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Linda Greenhouse's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Linda Greenhouse's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Linda Greenhouse's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
