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Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich (born June 17, 1943, Harrisburg, United States), aged 83, is an American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Gingrich has held office as United States representative. Gingrich's honours include Time Person of the Year and Doublespeak Award.

Newt Gingrich’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Newt Gingrich’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Explorer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

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

#7073

US rank in 2025

~852

Americans share it since 1880

1914

its peak year

The SSA recorded 5 American boys named Newt in 1943: 3,897th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Newt’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

5

Soul Urge · freedom

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on N (5) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Newt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

22 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

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 1943, 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 Newt apart

The Time Person of the Year came in 1995, when Newt Gingrich was 52.

Study took Newt Gingrich to Tulane University and Baker High School.

On the family side, Newt Gingrich was married Callista Gingrich.

Barry Manilow shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Tulane University, Baker High School and Tulane University School of Liberal Arts
Awards
Time Person of the Year (1995) and Doublespeak Award (1997)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
58

What the chart says

Newt, according to the stars

Core essence

Newt is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Newt needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Newt is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Newt needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Newt wants to be loved

Newt wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Newt openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Newt creates

How Newt 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. Newt 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: Newt is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Newt is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Newt 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 Newt's birth date. Working below.

Where Newt sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Newt

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Newt

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

PrivateExpressive
Newt

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Newt

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

PracticalVisionary
Newt

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Newt

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

Dedicate a star to Newt Gingrich

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

Newt’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 82° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 12.4° 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 Harrisburg that night

Computed for 40.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Harrisburg at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 8.0° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.

Harrisburg sits at 40.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Harrisburg on any night.

The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 3° below the horizon.

How unusual Newt's chart is

Chart pattern score

59 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all

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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The quick version

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Newt Gingrich's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 17, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Water Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Newt Gingrich was born on June 17, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 22

The cathedral builder.

Newt Gingrich's birth date, June 17, 1943, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Newt’s chart

Newt’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

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

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.6° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.7° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.1° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 2.3° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.8° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.1° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.5° orbSun in Gemini · 25°35′☉25°Moon in Sagittarius · 17°55′☽17°Mercury in Gemini · 2°50′☿2°Venus in Leo · 10°37′♀10°Mars in Aries · 15°36′♂15°Jupiter in Cancer · 27°14′♃27°Saturn in Gemini · 17°18′♄17°Uranus in Gemini · 5°55′♅5°Neptune in Virgo · 29°17′♆29°Pluto in Leo · 5°41′♇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

  • stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.0° to 8.0° orb

    Newt’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableUranussextilePluto0.2° to 0.3° orb

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

  • stableMarssextileSaturn1.4° to 2.0° orb

    Newt’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune2.0° to 2.2° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto2.4° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.7° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune3.1° to 4.0° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune3.2° to 4.2° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.4° to 5.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars4.8° to 5.1° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune6.6° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 25°38′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 29°24′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 0°43′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 17°30′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 2°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Sun 0.1°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.2°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.4°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 1.9°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.1°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.2°

Newt’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Newt’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Saturn, UranusThree 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-square Venus 0.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°

Born the same day as Newt

Barry Manilow was born on June 17, 1943 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Harrisburg, at 40.3°N, nothing below −49.7° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal

Newt’s cards

Computed from June 17, 1943. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Newt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q182788 (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 Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Newt Gingrich.

Quick answers about Newt Gingrich’s chart

How old is Newt Gingrich?
Newt Gingrich is 83 years old, born June 17, 1943 in Harrisburg, United States.
What zodiac sign is Newt Gingrich?
Newt Gingrich is a Gemini: born June 17, 1943, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Newt Gingrich's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 17, 1943 birth.
What is Newt Gingrich's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What is Newt Gingrich's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Newt Gingrich's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Newt Gingrich's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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