Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof (born April 27, 1959, Yamhill, United States), aged 67, is an American journalist and political commentator. Kristof's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and George Polk Award.
Nicholas Kristof’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Nicholas
Nicholas Kristof’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 Nicholas in the U.S.?
#112
US rank in 2025
~929,199
Americans share it since 1880
1995
its peak year
In 1959, 2,196 American boys and 6 girls were registered Nicholas — 156th among boys and 6,035th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nicholas’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on N (5) and closes on S (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nicholas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, 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 Nicholas apart
The Rhodes Scholarship came in 1981, when Nicholas Kristof was 22.
Study took Nicholas Kristof to Taipei Language Institute and Yamhill Carlton High School.
On the family side, Nicholas Kristof was born to Jane Shakespeare McWilliams and Ladis Kristof and married Sheryl WuDunn.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Scarsdale, New York, Oregon Democrats and American Rhodes Scholars.
Andrew Fire 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
- Taipei Language Institute, Yamhill Carlton High School and Magdalen College
- Awards
- George Polk Award (1989), Rhodes Scholarship (1981) and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1990)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 18
What the chart says
Nicholas, according to the stars
Core essence
Nicholas is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Nicholas is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Nicholas is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Nicholas needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Nicholas wants to be loved
Nicholas 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 Nicholas like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Nicholas creates
How Nicholas 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. Nicholas 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: Nicholas is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Nicholas 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 Nicholas leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Nicholas does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Nicholas's birth date. Working below.
Where Nicholas sits
Six lines
Nicholas’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Nicholas Kristof
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Yamhill 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 Yamhill that night
Computed for 45.34°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Yamhill at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 4.2° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Yamhill sits at 45.3°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −44.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Yamhill on any night.
Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon down and 68% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Nicholas's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · T-square onto Mercury · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Nicholas Kristof's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 27, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Nicholas Kristof was born on April 27, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Nicholas Kristof's birth date, April 27, 1959, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Nicholas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nicholas Kristof's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Nicholas Kristof 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.
Nicholas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Capricorn 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
stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb
Nicholas’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMoonoppositionMars0.0° to 7.3° orb
Nicholas’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 0.3° orb
Nicholas’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.4° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableVenussextileUranus2.3° to 3.5° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.6° to 3.2° orb
stableSunsextileMars2.9° to 3.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Nicholas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 24°31′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 12°40′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 24°22′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.6°
- Eros conjunction Mars 2.8°
- Eros square Mercury 2.9°
Nicholas’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Nicholas’s chart
Kite · Sun, Saturn, Pluto, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn 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.
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.7°
Nicholas’s family here
One relative of Nicholas Kristof also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Nicholas
Andrew Fire was born on April 27, 1959 too, 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Yamhill, at 45.3°N, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Taurus suns
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- Kristijan JakićCroatian association football player
- Ellyes SkhiriTunisian and French association football player
Born in Pig years
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Also born on April 27
- Lizzo1988
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- Balendra Shah1990
- Cory Booker1969
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- Cassie Randolph1995
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Carl GrandersonAmerican football defensive end
- Spencer RattlerAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Chris Rumph IIAmerican football player (born 1998)
Other Taurus Pig charts
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Other Steadfast Scholars
- Krepin DiattaSenegalese association football player
- Djed SpenceEnglish association football player
- Leonardo BalerdiArgentine footballer (born 1999)
- İsmail YüksekTurkish association football player (born 1999)
Famous people with Life Path 1
- D'Angelo RossAmerican football player
- George KarlaftisGreek-born American football player (born 2001)
- Matt WaletzkoAmerican football offensive tackle
From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Nicholas’s cards
Computed from April 27, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nicholas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q972107 (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 Frypie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nicholas Kristof at Wikipedia, nytimes.com, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nicholas Kristof.
Quick answers about Nicholas Kristof’s chart
- How old is Nicholas Kristof?
- Nicholas Kristof is 67 years old, born April 27, 1959 in Yamhill, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Nicholas Kristof?
- Nicholas Kristof is a Taurus: born April 27, 1959, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Nicholas Kristof's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 27, 1959 birth.
- What is Nicholas Kristof's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Nicholas Kristof's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Nicholas Kristof's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Nicholas Kristof's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
