Nick Chiles
Nick Chiles (born August 7, 1965, Manhattan, United States), aged 61, is an American journalist. Chiles's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Nick Chiles’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Snake, with 
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Nick Chiles’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Nick in the U.S.?
#1447
US rank in 2025
~50,589
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Nick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Nick, according to the stars
Core essence
Nick is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Nick is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Nick 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 Nick 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 Nick wants to be loved
Nick wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Nick and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Nick creates
How Nick makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Nick creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Nick 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Nick 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Nick fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Nick'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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Nick Chiles's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 7, 1965, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Snake
Wood SnakeSays less than it knows.
Nick Chiles was born on August 7, 1965, which falls in a Wood 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 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Nick Chiles's birth date, August 7, 1965, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Nick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nick Chiles' date-only chart is Venus opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Nick Chiles combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Nick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Nick Chiles, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Sagittarius 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.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Nick’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.1° to 6.0° orb
Nick’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.2° to 1.3° orb
Nick’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.9° to 2.1° orb
Nick’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
Nick’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.3° orb
Nick’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.4° to 1.9° orb
Nick’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto1.7° orb
Nick’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareNeptune1.9° to 2.8° orb
Nick’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus1.9° to 3.0° orb
Nick’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
Nick’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus2.6° to 2.7° orb
Nick’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Nick’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 21°46′ (moves 0.03° 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 Nick absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 2°30′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Nick looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 23°42′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Nick is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaLeo 15°52′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Nick at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 3°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Nick at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Eros square Jupiter 0.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.4°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.9°
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°).
Nick’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. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Nick is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Nick’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.
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.1°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nick Chiles, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Nick’s cards
Every card is computed from August 7, 1965, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Nick Chiles, 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
Nick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21266365, 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 Denene Millner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nick Chiles at Wikipedia 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 Nick Chiles.
Quick answers about Nick Chiles’s chart
- How old is Nick Chiles?
- Nick Chiles is 61 years old, born August 7, 1965 in Manhattan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Nick Chiles?
- Nick Chiles is a Leo: born August 7, 1965, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake.
- What is Nick Chiles's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 7, 1965 birth.
- What time was Nick Chiles 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 Nick Chiles's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the August 7, 1965 birth date.
- What is Nick Chiles's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 7, 1965 birth date.
- Where is Nick Chiles's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Nick Chiles's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
