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Mike Wallace

Mike Wallace (born July 22, 1942, New York City, United States; died 2026), was an American historian. Wallace's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Mike Wallace’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Mike Wallace’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Visionary

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Mike in the U.S.?

#1234

US rank in 2025

~206,523

Americans share it since 1880

1960

its peak year

Mike ranked 106th among boys and 2,938th among girls in 1942, the year of this birth, with 2,293 American boys and 11 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Mike’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Mike’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus

Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink

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 1942, 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 Mike apart

Mike Wallace took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1999, at 57.

Training came by way of Columbia University.

Cause of death is recorded as dementia with Lewy bodies.

The family line: married Carmen Boullosa and Hope Cooke.

Wikipedia's editors put Mike Wallace under Historians of New York City, John Jay College of Criminal Justice faculty and People from Great Neck, New York.

Willem Dafoe (1955) and John Leguizamo (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Columbia University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for History (1999)
Cause of death
dementia with Lewy bodies
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
4

What the chart says

Mike, according to the stars

Core essence

Mike feels the room before entering it. The core of Mike is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Mike, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Mike feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Mike needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Mike wants to be loved

Mike wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Mike like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Mike creates

How Mike makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Mike creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Mike is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Mike is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Mike fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Mike's birth date. Working below.

Where Mike sits

Six lines

Mike’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Mike

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Mike

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Mike

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Mike

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Mike

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Mike

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Mike’s birth-night reference starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 74.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alphecca →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 22.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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.

Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 15.3° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 81 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 70% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States

The death is recorded at Mexico City, Mexico in 2026.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Mike Wallace: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Mike's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Cancer · 2 planets at a critical degree · A bowl chart

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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Cancer Sun

Moody, and loyal past reason.

Mike Wallace's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 22, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Water Horse

Open road, open heart.

Mike Wallace was born on July 22, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Mike Wallace's birth date, July 22, 1942, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Mike’s chart

Mike’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 25° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Mercury · Trine, 1.4° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.6° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.7° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.4° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 5.5° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 5.9° orbSun in Cancer · 29°12′☉29°Moon in Scorpio · 18°02′☽18°Mercury in Cancer · 16°39′☿16°Venus in Gemini · 29°18′♀29°Mars in Leo · 23°56′♂23°Jupiter in Cancer · 9°34′♃9°Saturn in Gemini · 9°04′♄9°Uranus in Gemini · 3°35′♅3°Neptune in Virgo · 27°36′♆27°Pluto in Leo · 5°11′♇5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb

    Mike’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune1.1° to 2.3° orb

    Mike’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.6° orb

    Mike’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.9° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto5.5° to 6.4° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune6.0° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter6.2° to 8.0° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 1.5° to 15.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Mike’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 16°06′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAries 3°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 25°42′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 12°27′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 25°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Uranus 0.3°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.7°
  • Eros opposition Mars 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 2.9°

Mike’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Mike’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.5°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.6°
  • Mercury quintile Neptune 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.9°

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Mike’s cards

Computed from July 22, 1942. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

9 · Healer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Mike’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6849200 (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 Anonymous, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Mike Wallace at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mike Wallace.

Quick answers about Mike Wallace’s chart

What zodiac sign was Mike Wallace?
Mike Wallace was a Cancer: born July 22, 1942, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What was Mike Wallace's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1942 birth.
What was Mike Wallace's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Mike Wallace's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Mike Wallace's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Mike Wallace's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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