Murray Kempton
Murray Kempton (born December 16, 1917, Baltimore, United States; died 1997), was an American journalist. Kempton's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, National Book Award and George Polk Award.
Murray Kempton’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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Murray Kempton’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Storyteller
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Murray in the U.S.?
#2633
US rank in 2025
~22,299
Americans share it since 1880
1922
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Murray’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Murray, according to the stars
Core essence
Murray is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Murray is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Murray wants to be loved
Murray wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Murray be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Murray creates
How Murray makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Murray creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Murray is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Murray 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 Murray leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Murray channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Murray's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Murray Kempton's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 16, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Murray Kempton was born on December 16, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Murray Kempton's birth date, December 16, 1917, 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 Murray’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Murray Kempton's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 3°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Murray Kempton combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Storyteller.
Murray’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Murray Kempton, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
stableSunsquareMars2.4° to 3.0° orb
Murray’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.5° to 2.7° orb
Murray’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileUranus3.0° to 4.0° orb
Murray’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.2° to 4.1° orb
Murray’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.3° to 4.2° orb
Murray’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineJupiter5.7° to 6.7° orb
Murray’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus6.5° to 6.6° orb
Murray’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.4° orb
Murray’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 2.9° to 17.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 3.2° to 16.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 5.6° to 19.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Murray’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 25°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Murray absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 1°28′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Murray is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosCapricorn 29°03′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Murray is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 15°42′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Murray is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 15°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Murray exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.6°
- Chiron square Sun 1.3°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 1.5°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 2.7°
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°).
Murray’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. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Murray is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Murray’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.8°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Murray Kempton, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Murray
Arthur C. Clarke was born on December 16, 1917 too, 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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Murray’s cards
Every card is computed from December 16, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Murray Kempton, 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
Murray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6939331, 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.
Portrait by Al Ravenna, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Murray Kempton at Wikipedia.
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 Murray Kempton.
Quick answers about Murray Kempton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Murray Kempton?
- Murray Kempton was a Sagittarius: born December 16, 1917, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was Murray Kempton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 16, 1917 birth.
- What time was Murray Kempton 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 was Murray Kempton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the December 16, 1917 birth date.
- What was Murray Kempton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 16, 1917 birth date.
- Where was Murray Kempton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Murray Kempton's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
