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Liz Balmaseda

Liz Balmaseda (born January 17, 1959, Puerto Padre, Cuba), aged 67, is a Cuban-American writer and journalist. Balmaseda's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

Liz Balmaseda’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Liz Balmaseda’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Diplomat

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#1259

US rank in 2025

~10,223

Americans share it since 1930

1961

its peak year

Liz ranked 380th in 1959, the year of this birth, with 621 American girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Liz’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on L (3) and closes on Z (8). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Liz’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 3 · 4 · 9

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 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1958, 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 Liz apart

Liz Balmaseda took the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1993, at 34.

Miami Dade College and Florida International University shaped the training.

Wikipedia's editors put Liz Balmaseda under People from Puerto Padre, Journalists from Miami and Writers from Miami.

Muhammad Ali (1942) and Michelle Obama (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Miami Dade College and Florida International University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1993)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
2

What the chart says

Liz, according to the stars

Core essence

Liz is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Liz 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 Liz wants to be loved

Liz wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Liz be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Liz creates

How Liz makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Liz creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Liz 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Liz is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Liz is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Liz's birth date. Working below.

Where Liz sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Liz

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Liz

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

PrivateExpressive
Liz

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Liz

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Liz

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Liz

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Liz Balmaseda

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

Liz’s birth-night reference starAinwarm orange · TaurusAin, in Taurus. A warm orange star, 86° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Ain →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 64.3° 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 Puerto Padre that night

Computed for 21.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Ain stood nearest the zenith over Puerto Padre at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.0° above the horizon in Taurus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.

From 21.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The Moon was at first quarter, 61% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.

How unusual Liz's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

3-planet stellium in Capricorn

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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The quick version

Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Liz Balmaseda's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 17, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Earth Dog

The first call when it's bad.

Liz Balmaseda was born on January 17, 1959, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 6

Everyone's person. Never off duty.

Liz Balmaseda's birth date, January 17, 1959, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Liz’s chart

Liz’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.2° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.8° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.1° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.2° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.3° orbSun in Capricorn · 26°51′☉26°Moon in Taurus · 5°38′☽5°Mercury in Capricorn · 10°02′☿10°Venus in Aquarius · 13°00′♀12°Mars in Taurus · 21°10′♂21°Jupiter in Scorpio · 26°50′♃26°Saturn in Capricorn · 1°23′♄1°Uranus in Leo · 15°03′ · retrograde♅℞15°Neptune in Scorpio · 6°50′♆6°Pluto in Virgo · 3°48′ · retrograde♇℞3°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Liz’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.0° to 7.1° orb

    Liz’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus1.4° to 2.7° orb

    Liz’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune2.5° to 3.9° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb

  • stableSuntrineMars5.3° to 6.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto5.5° to 7.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune5.5° to 6.8° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.6° to 5.7° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus5.9° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 20°51′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 15°51′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 16°01′ (moves 0.71° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 10°15′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°53′ (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 opposition Neptune 0.1°
  • Chiron square Mars 0.3°
  • Ceres square Uranus 0.8°
  • Eros trine Uranus 1.0°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 2.7°
  • Ceres square Venus 2.9°

Liz’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Liz’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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 biquintile Pluto 1.0°
  • Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.0°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.8°

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  • Gisèle RabesahalaMalagasy politician and activist who was the first woman to hold a ministerial position in the government of Madagascar
  • An Yu-jinSouth Korean singer
Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Liz’s cards

Computed from January 17, 1959. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Liz’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13563073 (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 Liz Balmaseda at Wikipedia and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Liz Balmaseda.

Quick answers about Liz Balmaseda’s chart

How old is Liz Balmaseda?
Liz Balmaseda is 67 years old, born January 17, 1959 in Puerto Padre, Cuba.
What zodiac sign is Liz Balmaseda?
Liz Balmaseda is a Capricorn: born January 17, 1959, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Liz Balmaseda's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 17, 1959 birth.
What is Liz Balmaseda's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Liz Balmaseda's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Liz Balmaseda's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Liz Balmaseda's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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