Loren Jenkins
Loren Jenkins (born October 26, 1938, New Orleans, United States), aged 88, is an American war correspondent. Jenkins's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Loren Jenkins’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Loren
Loren Jenkins’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Loren in the U.S.?
#3015
US rank in 2025
~59,320
Americans share it since 1880
1955
its peak year
The SSA recorded 575 American boys named Loren in 1938: 215th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Loren’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on L (3) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Loren’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Crimson · Gold
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 Loren apart
The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting came in 1983, when Loren Jenkins was 45.
The schooling ran through University of Colorado Boulder.
Wikipedia files Loren Jenkins under 1982 Lebanon War, War correspondents of the Chechen wars and Journalists from Colorado.
Hillary Clinton (1947) and Evo Morales (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1983)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Loren, according to the stars
Core essence
Loren does not do surface. The core of Loren is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Loren is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Loren is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Loren needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Loren wants to be loved
Loren 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 Loren and watch them fall for you again.
How Loren creates
How Loren makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Loren creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Loren 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 3 is the creative. Loren is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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. Loren fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Loren's birth date. Working below.
Where Loren sits
Six lines
Loren’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Loren Jenkins
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Orleans 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 Orleans that night
Computed for 29.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New Orleans was Scheat, in Pegasus, 85.5° up.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
New Orleans sits at 30.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −60.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman were never visible from New Orleans on any night.
Sun 48° below the horizon, Moon down and 14% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Loren's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Loren Jenkins's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 26, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Loren Jenkins was born on October 26, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Loren Jenkins's birth date, October 26, 1938, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Loren’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Loren Jenkins' date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Loren Jenkins combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Loren’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Sagittarius 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
stableMoontrineSaturn0.0° to 6.9° orb
Loren’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextilePluto0.3° to 0.9° orb
Loren’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquarePluto0.7° to 1.7° orb
Loren’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.5° to 4.1° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.5° to 3.9° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.0° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus6.1° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 1.7° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 3.8° to 16.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 3.9° to 16.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 4.8° to 17.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Loren’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 10°01′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 25°05′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 18°25′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 10°54′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 23°51′ (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 trine Neptune 1.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.2°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.6°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.7°
Loren’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Loren’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.
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 2.0°
More people like Loren
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Born in United States
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Also born on October 26
- Hillary Clinton1947
- Evo Morales1959
- Seth MacFarlane1973
- CM Punk1978
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Other Gilded Guardians
- Princess Alexia of the Netherlandsthe second daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Máxima
- Prince Emmanuel of Belgiumyounger son and third child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium
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Loren’s cards
Computed from October 26, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Loren’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q100876475 (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 Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Loren Jenkins at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Loren Jenkins.
Quick answers about Loren Jenkins’s chart
- How old is Loren Jenkins?
- Loren Jenkins is 88 years old, born October 26, 1938 in New Orleans, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Loren Jenkins?
- Loren Jenkins is a Scorpio: born October 26, 1938, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Loren Jenkins's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 26, 1938 birth.
- What is Loren Jenkins's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Loren Jenkins's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Loren Jenkins's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Loren Jenkins's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
