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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Nick
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
Nick ranked 281st among boys and 6,302nd among girls in 1965, the year of this birth, with 718 American boys and 6 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
5
Soul Urge · freedom
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on N (5) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1965, 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 Nick apart
Nick Chiles took the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1992, at 27.
Training came by way of Yale University.
Wikipedia's editors put Nick Chiles under University of Georgia faculty, Princeton University fellows and People from Decatur, Georgia.
Charlize Theron (1975) and Abbie Cornish (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (1992)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
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. Working below.
Where Nick sits
Six lines
Nick’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 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.
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 Nick Chiles
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 12.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Manhattan at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 10° below the horizon, Moon up and 84% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Manhattan, United States
- Lives in
- Jersey City
Wikidata records Jersey City as Nick Chiles's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Nick Chiles: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Nick's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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
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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Sagittarius 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
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
stableSaturnoppositionPluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.3° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter1.4° to 1.9° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto1.7° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune1.9° to 2.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus1.9° to 3.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus2.6° to 2.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 21°46′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 2°30′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 23°42′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 15°52′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 3°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.4°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.9°
Nick’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Nick’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Also born on August 7
- Charlize Theron1975
- Abbie Cornish1982
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Famous people with Life Path 9
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Nick’s cards
Computed from August 7, 1965. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21266365 (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 Denene Millner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nick Chiles at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Nick Chiles's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Nick Chiles's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
