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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Nicholas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Nicholas Kristof, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Capricorn 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.
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
Nicholas’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.4° orb
Nicholas’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb
Nicholas’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb
Nicholas’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.3° to 3.3° orb
Nicholas’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenussextileUranus2.3° to 3.5° orb
Nicholas’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.6° to 3.2° orb
Nicholas’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSunsextileMars2.9° to 3.3° orb
Nicholas’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
Nicholas’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Nicholas making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 24°31′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Nicholas is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCancer 12°40′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Nicholas is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 24°22′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Nicholas needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Nicholas is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.6°
- Eros conjunction Mars 2.8°
- Eros square Mercury 2.9°
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°).
Nicholas’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. ♄ 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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Nicholas is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Nicholas’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.
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 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.
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nicholas Kristof, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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 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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Nicholas’s cards
Every card is computed from April 27, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Nicholas Kristof, 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
Nicholas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q972107, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- 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 time was Nicholas Kristof 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 is Nicholas Kristof's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the April 27, 1959 birth date.
- What is Nicholas Kristof's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 27, 1959 birth date.
- 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.
