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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 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 1880

1961

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Liz’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Liz sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.

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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in Liz’s chart

Liz’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Liz Balmaseda, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • 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

    Liz’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune2.5° to 3.9° orb

    Liz’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb

    Liz’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSuntrineMars5.3° to 6.0° orb

    Liz’s core identity flows straight into their drive.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto5.5° to 7.0° orb

    Liz’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune5.5° to 6.8° orb

    Liz’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.6° to 5.7° orb

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

  • stableMarssquareUranus5.9° to 6.3° orb

    Liz’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • 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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

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

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Liz making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

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

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

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Liz is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

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

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

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Liz is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

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

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

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Liz needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Liz is read as immovable on those points.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Liz’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  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

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Liz is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Liz’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

  • 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Sun biquintile Pluto 1.0°
  • Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.0°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Liz Balmaseda, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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

Liz’s cards

Every card is computed from January 17, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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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

No birth time is on public record for Liz Balmaseda, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Liz’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13563073, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

The same Liz Balmaseda at Wikipedia and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog.
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 time was Liz Balmaseda born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Liz Balmaseda's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the January 17, 1959 birth date.
What is Liz Balmaseda's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 17, 1959 birth date.
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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