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Nick Ut

Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951, Bình Quới, Vietnam), aged 75, is a Vietnamese photographer (b. 1951). Ut's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, Pulitzer Prize for Photography and George Polk Award.

Nick Ut’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Nick Ut’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Diplomat

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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 448 American boys named Nick in 1951: 323rd 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.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on N (5) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 3: tact against 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

3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, 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 George Polk Award came in 1972, when Nick Ut was 21.

Wikipedia files Nick Ut under Vietnam War photographers, People from Long An province and Vietnamese photographers.

David Cheriton 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.

Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography (1973), George Polk Award (1972) and National Medal of Arts (2021)
Citizenship
United States and Vietnam
Languages
Vietnamese
Wikipedia editions
26

What the chart says

Nick, according to the stars

Core essence

Nick leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Nick is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Nick wants to be loved

Nick wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Nick is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Nick creates

How Nick makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Nick creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Nick is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Nick is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Nick gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Nick

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Nick

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Nick

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Nick

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Nick

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Nick

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Nick Ut

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bình Quới on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Nick’s birth-night reference starAl Tarfwarm orange · CancerAl Tarf, in Cancer. A warm orange star, 85.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Al Tarf →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 35.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Bình Quới that night

Computed for 10.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bình Quới was Al Tarf, in Cancer, 85.8° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

Bình Quới sits at 10.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Sun 28° below the horizon, Moon down and 58% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Bình Quới, Vietnam
Lives in
Los Angeles

Wikidata records Los Angeles as Nick Ut'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 Ut: 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

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Aries · A leaning bowl

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.

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The quick version

Aries Sun

Fires first. Thinks later.

Nick Ut's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 29, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Metal Rabbit

Three steps ahead, no fuss.

Nick Ut was born on March 29, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Nick Ut's birth date, March 29, 1951, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Nick’s chart

Nick’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Mercury · Trine, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.2° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.4° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 2.7° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 3.2° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.2° orbSun in Aries · 7°40′☉7°Moon in Sagittarius · 23°33′☽23°Mercury in Aries · 24°03′☿24°Venus in Taurus · 9°24′♀9°Mars in Aries · 20°50′♂20°Jupiter in Pisces · 24°32′♃24°Saturn in Virgo · 28°19′ · retrograde♄℞28°Uranus in Cancer · 5°30′♅5°Neptune in Libra · 18°28′ · retrograde♆℞18°Pluto in Leo · 17°39′ · retrograde♇℞17°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

  • stableMoontrineMercury0.0° to 6.8° orb

    Nick’s feelings flow straight into their mind.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb

    Nick’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsquareUranus1.7° to 2.6° orb

    Nick’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.0° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.8° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto2.8° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenussextileUranus3.3° to 4.5° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.6° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune4.8° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Nick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 2°39′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 23°54′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 19°44′ (moves 0.54° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 27°50′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Mercury 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Mars 1.1°
  • Eros trine Neptune 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.6°
  • Eros opposition Pluto 2.1°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.9°

Nick’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Nick’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.9°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.7°

Born the same day as Nick

David Cheriton was born on March 29, 1951 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 102 catalog stars stood above Bình Quới, at 10.5°N that night, with Al Tarf nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained

Nick’s cards

Computed from March 29, 1951. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Nick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q362337 (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 David Hume Kennerly, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Nick Ut at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nick Ut.

Quick answers about Nick Ut’s chart

How old is Nick Ut?
Nick Ut is 75 years old, born March 29, 1951 in Bình Quới, Vietnam.
What zodiac sign is Nick Ut?
Nick Ut is an Aries: born March 29, 1951, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Nick Ut's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 29, 1951 birth.
What is Nick Ut's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Nick Ut's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Nick Ut's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Nick Ut's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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