Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones (born April 9, 1976, Waterloo, United States), aged 50, is an American journalist. Hannah-Jones's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Journalist of the Year and The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism.
Nikole Hannah-Jones’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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Nikole Hannah-Jones’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Nikole in the U.S.?
#6487
US rank in 2025
~6,982
Americans share it since 1880
1993
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Nikole’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Nikole, according to the stars
Core essence
Nikole 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 Nikole 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Nikole needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Nikole needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Nikole wants to be loved
Nikole wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Nikole creates
How Nikole makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Nikole creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Nikole is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Nikole 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Nikole 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 Nikole's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones in 15 seconds
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Nikole Hannah-Jones's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 9, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Nikole Hannah-Jones was born on April 9, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Nikole Hannah-Jones's birth date, April 9, 1976, 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 Nikole’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nikole Hannah-Jones' date-only chart is Mars square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Nikole Hannah-Jones combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Nikole’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Nikole Hannah-Jones, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Leo 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.
stableMarssquarePluto0.1° to 0.7° orb
Nikole’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.5° to 3.5° orb
Nikole’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.3° to 2.6° orb
Nikole’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb
Nikole’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.8° to 5.6° orb
Nikole’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineUranus4.4° to 5.0° orb
Nikole’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineSaturn4.9° to 6.1° orb
Nikole’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareSaturn5.7° to 6.6° orb
Nikole’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineNeptune5.7° to 6.7° orb
Nikole’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Nikole’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.
⚷ ChironAries 27°11′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Nikole may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresGemini 18°37′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Nikole feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAries 0°20′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Nikole is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaCancer 2°14′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Nikole is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Nikole carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- Hygiea square Venus 0.5°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.4°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.2°
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°).
Nikole’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. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Nikole is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Nikole’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 Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nikole Hannah-Jones, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Nikole’s cards
Every card is computed from April 9, 1976, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Nikole Hannah-Jones, 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
Nikole’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21063790, 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 (Photo/Sarah E. Freeman/Grady College, freemans@uga.edu in New York City, Georgia, on Saturday, May 21, 2016), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
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Quick answers about Nikole Hannah-Jones’s chart
- How old is Nikole Hannah-Jones?
- Nikole Hannah-Jones is 50 years old, born April 9, 1976 in Waterloo, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Nikole Hannah-Jones?
- Nikole Hannah-Jones is an Aries: born April 9, 1976, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon.
- What is Nikole Hannah-Jones's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 9, 1976 birth.
- What time was Nikole Hannah-Jones 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 Nikole Hannah-Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 9, 1976 birth date.
- What is Nikole Hannah-Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 9, 1976 birth date.
- Where is Nikole Hannah-Jones's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Nikole Hannah-Jones's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
