Michael Hiltzik
Michael Hiltzik (born November 9, 1952, New York City, United States), aged 73, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Hiltzik's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, Gerald Loeb Award and The Sidney Award.
Michael Hiltzik’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Dragon, with 
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Michael Hiltzik’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Michael in the U.S.?
#21
US rank in 2025
~4,448,633
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 6 · 7
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Michael, according to the stars
Core essence
Michael does not do surface. The core of Michael 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 Michael is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Michael needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Michael needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Michael wants to be loved
Michael 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 Michael and watch them fall for you again.
How Michael creates
How Michael 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. Michael 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: Michael is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Michael 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 Michael leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Michael does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Michael's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Michael Hiltzik's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 9, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Michael Hiltzik was born on November 9, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Michael Hiltzik's birth date, November 9, 1952, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Hiltzik's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Michael Hiltzik combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Michael Hiltzik, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Michael’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.0° orb
Michael’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableVenustrinePluto0.1° to 1.3° orb
Michael’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.3° to 0.9° orb
Michael’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb
Michael’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineUranus0.7° to 1.7° orb
Michael’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
Michael’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionJupiter0.9° to 2.1° orb
Michael’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
Michael’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssquareNeptune1.2° to 1.9° orb
Michael’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
Michael’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.1° to 2.8° orb
Michael’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Michael’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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 8°56′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Michael is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 15°20′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Michael feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosSagittarius 18°37′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Michael attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 21°37′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Michael is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 25°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Michael is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.8°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.7°
- Eros sextile Saturn 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°).
Michael’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. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Michael is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Michael’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.
T-square onto Saturn · Mars, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Neptune · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Michael Hiltzik, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Michael
4 other people here were born on November 9, 1952, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Michael’s cards
Every card is computed from November 9, 1952, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Michael Hiltzik, 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
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6831149, 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 Michael Hiltzik at Wikipedia, latimes.com, X and MusicBrainz.
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 Michael Hiltzik.
Quick answers about Michael Hiltzik’s chart
- How old is Michael Hiltzik?
- Michael Hiltzik is 73 years old, born November 9, 1952 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Michael Hiltzik?
- Michael Hiltzik is a Scorpio: born November 9, 1952, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon.
- What is Michael Hiltzik's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 9, 1952 birth.
- What time was Michael Hiltzik 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 Michael Hiltzik's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the November 9, 1952 birth date.
- What is Michael Hiltzik's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 9, 1952 birth date.
- Where is Michael Hiltzik's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Michael Hiltzik's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
