Louis Kilzer
Louis Kilzer (born February 10, 1951, Cody, United States; died 2024), was an American journalist and essayist. Kilzer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Louis Kilzer’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Louis
Louis Kilzer’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Louis in the U.S.?
#249
US rank in 2025
~409,317
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 5,089 American boys and 28 girls named Louis in 1951: 76th among boys and 1,865th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Louis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
5
Soul Urge · freedom
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Louis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, 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 Louis apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting came in 1990, when Louis Kilzer was 39.
The schooling ran through Yale University.
Wikipedia files Louis Kilzer under People from Cody, Wyoming, American expatriates in Costa Rica and Journalists from Wyoming.
Bob Iger shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (1990)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
What the chart says
Louis, according to the stars
Core essence
Louis is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Louis is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Louis runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Louis needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Louis wants to be loved
Louis wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Louis, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Louis creates
How Louis makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Louis 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: Louis is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Louis is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Louis leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Louis slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Louis's birth date. Working below.
Where Louis sits
Six lines
Louis’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Louis Kilzer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cody 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 Cody that night
Computed for 44.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cody was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 88.3° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
Cody sits at 44.5°N, high enough that Capella never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −45.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cody on any night.
The Moon, 25% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 36° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cody, United States
The death is recorded at Colorado Springs, El Paso County in 2024.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Louis Kilzer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Louis's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Earth planets
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Louis Kilzer's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 10, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Louis Kilzer was born on February 10, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Louis Kilzer's birth date, February 10, 1951, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Louis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Louis Kilzer's date-only chart is Mercury trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- Louis Kilzer combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Louis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Louis’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.5° to 1.5° orb
Louis’s affections and growth act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
Louis’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter1.4° to 2.0° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto2.1° to 3.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.5° to 2.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.2° to 4.3° orb
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 4.5° to 17.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Louis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 0°09′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 6°34′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 23°26′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 10°32′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 14°03′ (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 square Jupiter 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.1°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.6°
Louis’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Louis’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.
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.4°
Born the same day as Louis
Bob Iger was born on February 10, 1951 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Cody, at 44.5°N, Capella never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Louis
Other journalists
- Eileen McNamara1952
- Lucinda Franks1946
- Dean Baquet1956
- Bill Keller1949
- Michael Hiltzik1952
- Roy Gutman1944
Born in United States
- Terry PegulaAmerican businessman (born 1951)
- Ed HarrisAmerican actor and director (born 1950)
- Frank WilczekAmerican theoretical physicist
- Kirstie AlleyAmerican actress
- James Patrick KellyAmerican science fiction writer (born 1951)
- Michael SwanwickAmerican science fiction author (born 1950)
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Fellow Aquarius suns
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- Jadeveon ClowneyAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Mario Edwards, Jr.American football player (born 1994)
Born in Rabbit years
- Samuel Flagg BemisAmerican historian
- Kai BirdAmerican journalist
- Oscar HandlinU.S. historian
Also born on February 10
- Mia Khalifa1993
- Lee Hsien Loong1952
- Laura Dern1967
- Bob Iger1951
- Stephanie Beatriz1981
- Yara Shahidi2000
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Charles LeclercMonegasque racing driver
- Jessica PegulaUS American tennis player
- Johan ManzambiSwiss footballer
Other Aquarius Rabbit charts
- Ji'Ayir BrownAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Elijah HarklessAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Darius GarlandAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Jordan MillerAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Other Gilded Scholars
- Steve LacyAmerican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer
- Alessandro MicheleItalian fashion designer
- Raf SimonsBelgian fashion designer
- Brandi GlanvilleAmerican television personality
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Grigory MargulisRussian mathematician
- Richard BorcherdsBritish-American mathematician (born 1959)
- David MumfordBritish/American mathematician
From the journal: Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated · Is Western astrology outdated?
Louis’s cards
Computed from February 10, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Louis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3262399 (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 WriterKill, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Louis Kilzer at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Louis Kilzer.
Quick answers about Louis Kilzer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Louis Kilzer?
- Louis Kilzer was an Aquarius: born February 10, 1951, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Louis Kilzer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 10, 1951 birth.
- What was Louis Kilzer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Louis Kilzer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Louis Kilzer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Louis Kilzer's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
