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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Nikole
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 1962
1993
its peak year
In 1976, 162 American girls were registered Nikole — 846th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nikole’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on N (5) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nikole’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1976, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Nikole apart
The The Sidney Award came in 2013, when Nikole Hannah-Jones was 37.
Study took Nikole Hannah-Jones to Waterloo West High School and University of Notre Dame.
Nikole Hannah-Jones was 27 when the work began in 2003.
On Wikipedia the categories read School segregation in the United States, American magazine staff writers and Journalists from Iowa.
Hugh Hefner (1926) and Elle Fanning (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Waterloo West High School, University of Notre Dame and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Awards
- George Polk Award (2019), Time 100 (2021) and Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (2020)
- Working from
- 2003
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 15
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. Working below.
Where Nikole sits
Six lines
Nikole’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Nikole Hannah-Jones
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Waterloo 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 Waterloo that night
Computed for 42.49°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Waterloo at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 3.2° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
Waterloo sits at 42.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 75% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.
How unusual Nikole's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Aries
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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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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Leo 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
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
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.8° to 5.6° orb
stableMarstrineUranus4.4° to 5.0° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn4.9° to 6.1° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn5.7° to 6.6° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.7° to 6.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 27°11′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 18°37′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 0°20′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 2°14′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Nikole’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Nikole’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°
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More charts like Nikole’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Taliese FuagaAmerican football player
- Sebastian JosephAmerican football nose tackle
- Milton WilliamsAmerican football player (born 1999)
Born in Dragon years
- Claude ShannonAmerican mathematician and information theorist
- Khabib NurmagomedovRussian professional mixed martial artist
- John LeguizamoAmerican actor, comedian, producer, and writer
Also born on April 9
- Hugh Hefner1926
- Elle Fanning1998
- Leighton Meester1986
- Paulina Porizkova1965
- TommyInnit2004
- Martin Margiela1957
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Efim ZelmanovRussian-american mathematician
- Michael FreedmanMathematician and Fields Medalist at Microsoft Station Q
- Vladimir Drinfeldmathematician from the former Ukrainian SSR, who emigrated to the United States and is currently working at the University of Chicago
Other Aries Dragon charts
- Jackie EvanchoAmerican singer
- Sha'Carri RichardsonAmerican sprinter
- Jace NormanAmerican actor (born 2000)
- Nina DerwaelBelgian artistic gymnast
Other Gilded Visionarys
- Charles BronsonAmerican actor
- Tom HulceAmerican actor and producer
- Saïd TaghmaouiFrench-American actor
- Anne BaxterAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Alexis Mac AllisterArgentine association football player (born 1998)
- Michael OliseFrench footballer (born 2001)
- Thomas RamosFrench rugby union player
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Nikole’s cards
Computed from April 9, 1976. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nikole’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21063790 (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 (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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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.
- 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 is Nikole Hannah-Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Nikole Hannah-Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
