Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addario (born November 13, 1973, Norwalk, United States), aged 52, is an American photojournalist. Addario's honours include MacArthur Fellows Program and Courage in Journalism Award.
Lynsey Addario’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Lynsey
Lynsey Addario’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Lynsey in the U.S.?
—
outside the current top list
~4,929
Americans share it since 1966
1982
its peak year
In 1973, 5 American girls were registered Lynsey — 9,195th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lynsey’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on L (3) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lynsey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
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 1973, 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 Lynsey apart
The MacArthur Fellows Program came in 2009, when Lynsey Addario was 36.
Study took Lynsey Addario to Staples High School and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lynsey Addario was 23 when the work began in 1996.
On Wikipedia the categories read Photographers from Connecticut, The New York Times visual journalists and National Geographic photographers.
Whoopi Goldberg (1955) and Lando Norris (1999) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Staples High School and University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Awards
- Courage in Journalism Award (2022) and MacArthur Fellows Program (2009)
- Working from
- 1996
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Lynsey, according to the stars
Core essence
Lynsey does not do surface. The core of Lynsey 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 Lynsey is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Lynsey wants to be loved
Lynsey wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Lynsey you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Lynsey creates
How Lynsey makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Lynsey creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Lynsey is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Lynsey is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Lynsey gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Lynsey's birth date. Working below.
Where Lynsey sits
Six lines
Lynsey’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 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 Lynsey Addario
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Norwalk 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 Norwalk that night
Computed for 41.09°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Norwalk at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 8.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 98 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Norwalk sits at 41.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Norwalk on any night.
The Moon, 84% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.
How unusual Lynsey's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Pluto · Mars retrograde
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 →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Lynsey Addario's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 13, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Lynsey Addario was born on November 13, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Lynsey Addario's birth date, November 13, 1973, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Lynsey’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lynsey Addario's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Lynsey Addario combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Lynsey’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.1° to 7.6° orb
Lynsey’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb
Lynsey’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
Lynsey’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus1.1° to 1.3° orb
stableVenussquarePluto1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 14.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.4° to 16.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Lynsey’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 17°14′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 0°58′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 8°21′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 18°14′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 10°02′ (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 conjunction Venus 1.7°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.8°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.4°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.8°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.9°
Lynsey’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; in its own sign, Aries; 1 major aspect
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Lynsey’s chart
T-square onto Pluto · Venus, Saturn, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Venus quintile Uranus 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
More people like Lynsey
Other photographers
- Anja Niedringhaus1965
- Sergey Ponomarev1980
- Alexander McQueen1969
- Narciso Contreras1975
- Gilbert King1962
- Frank Ocean1987
Born in United States
- Paul WalkerAmerican actor
- Seth MeyersAmerican comedian, television host and actor
- Mario LopezAmerican actor
- Peter FacinelliAmerican actor
- Shannon ElizabethAmerican actress
- Rachel RoyAmerican fashion designer
More charts like Lynsey’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Nadine GordimerSouth African writer
- Evo MoralesPresident of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019
- Grace KellyAmerican actress and Princess consort of Monaco
Born in Ox years
- Pharrell WilliamsAmerican record producer and songwriter
- Yanis VaroufakisGreek economist and politician
- Dennis RodmanAmerican basketball player
Also born on November 13
- Whoopi Goldberg1955
- Lando Norris1999
- Jimmy Kimmel1967
- Paul Graham1964
- Art Malik1952
- Gerard Butler1969
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Dan Sten OlssonSwedish businessman
- Joe LewisBritish businessman
- Alain MérieuxFrench businessman
Other Scorpio Ox charts
- D.J. WonnumAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Justice HillAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Nnamdi MadubuikeAmerican football player
- Stetson BennettAmerican football player (born 1997)
Other Tidal Scholars
- Paavo NurmiFinnish middle and long distance runner
- Sundar PichaiIndian-American business executive, CEO of Google LLC & Alphabet Inc
- America FerreraAmerican actress
- Daniel RicciardoAustralian racing driver
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Michael S. SchmidtAmerican Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
- Walter A. McDougallAmerican historian
- Aaron CoplandAmerican composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
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Lynsey’s cards
Computed from November 13, 1973. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lynsey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13560889 (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 Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lynsey Addario at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lynsey Addario.
Quick answers about Lynsey Addario’s chart
- How old is Lynsey Addario?
- Lynsey Addario is 52 years old, born November 13, 1973 in Norwalk, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Lynsey Addario?
- Lynsey Addario is a Scorpio: born November 13, 1973, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Lynsey Addario's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 13, 1973 birth.
- What is Lynsey Addario's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Lynsey Addario's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Lynsey Addario's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lynsey Addario's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
