Nick Kotz
Nick Kotz (born September 16, 1932, San Antonio, United States; died 2020), was an American journalist. Kotz's honours include Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and Raymond Clapper Memorial Award.
Nick Kotz’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Nick
Nick Kotz’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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
The SSA recorded 490 American boys named Nick in 1932: 241st for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
6
Soul Urge · being needed
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on N (5) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
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
22 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
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 1932, 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
The Raymond Clapper Memorial Award came in 1967, when Nick Kotz was 35.
Nick Kotz was taught at St. Albans School and London School of Economics and Political Science.
Wikipedia files Nick Kotz under Writers from San Antonio, Road incident deaths in Virginia and United States Marine Corps officers.
George Chakiris 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
- St. Albans School, London School of Economics and Political Science and Dartmouth College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (1968) and Raymond Clapper Memorial Award (1967)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
What the chart says
Nick, according to the stars
Core essence
Nick notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Nick is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Nick runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Nick needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Nick wants to be loved
Nick 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 Nick openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Nick creates
How Nick makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Nick creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Nick is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Nick 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Nick 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 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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 Nick Kotz
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Antonio 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 San Antonio that night
Computed for 29.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Sulafat stood nearest the zenith over San Antonio at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.8° above the horizon in Lyra.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
San Antonio sits at 29.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Acrux and Toliman cannot be seen from San Antonio at all: they sit past the −60.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 18° below the horizon, Moon up and 95% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- San Antonio, United States
The death is recorded at Broad Run, Fauquier County in 2020.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Nick Kotz: 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
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Uranus · No Air planets
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
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Nick Kotz's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 16, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Nick Kotz was born on September 16, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Structure for the many.
Nick Kotz's birth date, September 16, 1932, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Nick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nick Kotz's date-only chart is Sun sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Nick Kotz combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Nick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Aries 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
stableSunsextilePluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Nick’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.4° to 0.5° orb
Nick’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.5° to 1.2° orb
Nick’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableUranussquarePluto0.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.5° to 5.3° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.7° to 4.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter4.0° to 5.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.0° to 4.6° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.7° to 5.3° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Nick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 28°35′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 13°08′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 9°14′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo or Libra during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 15°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Saturn 0.3°
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.4°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.1°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.6°
Nick’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Nick’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Mars, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.2°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.1°
Born the same day as Nick
George Chakiris was born on September 16, 1932 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. San Antonio sits at 29.4°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Acrux and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Nick
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- Russell Baker1925
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- Mike Royko1932
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Nick’s cards
Computed from September 16, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
22 · Master Builder☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7027434 (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 Earl McDonald--NARA Staff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nick Kotz at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nick Kotz.
Quick answers about Nick Kotz’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Nick Kotz?
- Nick Kotz was a Virgo: born September 16, 1932, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Nick Kotz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 16, 1932 birth.
- What was Nick Kotz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Nick Kotz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Nick Kotz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Nick Kotz's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
