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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Monkey, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Monkey, with 
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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
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
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
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Nick sits
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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 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.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
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
No documented birth time exists for Nick Kotz, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Aries 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.
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
Nick’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.5° to 5.3° orb
Nick’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableSunsextileMars3.7° to 4.1° orb
Nick’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter4.0° to 5.6° orb
Nick’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.0° to 4.6° orb
Nick’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineSaturn4.2° to 5.2° orb
Nick’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareUranus4.7° to 5.3° orb
Nick’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.1° to 5.2° orb
Nick’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.8° orb
Nick’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
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
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 ℞Taurus 28°35′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Nick building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 13°08′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Nick caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosLeo 9°14′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Nick loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaVirgo or Libra during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Nick is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 15°18′ (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. Nick 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 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°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Nick is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nick Kotz, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Nick
George Chakiris was born on September 16, 1932 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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Nick’s cards
Every card is computed from September 16, 1932, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Nick Kotz, 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 Q7027434, 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 Earl McDonald--NARA Staff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nick Kotz at Wikipedia.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Monkey.
- 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 time was Nick Kotz 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 was Nick Kotz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the September 16, 1932 birth date.
- What was Nick Kotz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 16, 1932 birth date.
- 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.
