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, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Michael
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
Michael ranked 4th among boys and 647th among girls in 1952, the year of this birth, with 79,037 American boys and 190 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michael’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1952, 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 Michael apart
Michael Hiltzik took the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1999, at 47.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Colgate University shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Michael Hiltzik under Colgate University alumni, Gerald Loeb Award winners for Columns, Commentary, and Editorials and American technology writers.
The same date carries Sherrod Brown and John Megna. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Colgate University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting (1999), Gerald Loeb Award (2004) and The Sidney Award (2019)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
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. Working below.
Where Michael sits
Six lines
Michael’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 Michael Hiltzik
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mirach stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.4° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 46% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
How unusual Michael's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet
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 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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Leo 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
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
stableVenussextileSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb
stableSuntrineUranus0.7° to 1.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter0.9° to 2.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune1.2° to 1.9° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.1° to 2.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 8°56′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 15°20′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 18°37′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 21°37′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 25°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Michael’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Michael’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 2.4°
Born the same day as Michael
4 other people here were born on November 9, 1952, 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. New York City sits at 40.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Michael
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Born in United States
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Fellow Scorpio suns
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Born in Dragon years
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- Dale Mossplayer of American football
Also born on November 9
- Carl Sagan1934
- Hedy Lamarr1914
- Luiz Felipe Scolari1948
- Eric Dane1972
- Nikki Blonsky1988
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- Josh JacobsAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Jamien SherwoodAmerican football safety
- Austin CorbettAmerican football guard
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Other Steadfast Scholars
- Bozoma Saint Johnbusinesswoman and marketing executive
- Kristi YamaguchiAmerican figure skater
- Rachel ZoeAmerican fashion stylist
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- Joe BachieAmerican football outside linebacker
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Michael’s cards
Computed from November 9, 1952. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6831149 (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.
The same Michael Hiltzik at Wikipedia, latimes.com, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Michael Hiltzik's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Michael Hiltzik's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
