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Oscar Griffin, Jr.

Oscar Griffin, Jr. (born April 28, 1933, Daisetta, United States; died 2011), was an American journalist. Griffin,'s honours include Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting and Golden Plate Award.

Oscar Griffin, Jr.’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Oscar Griffin, Jr.’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Guardian

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Oscar in the U.S.?

#223

US rank in 2025

~214,168

Americans share it since 1880

2006

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1933, Oscar came 142nd among boys and 2,649th among girls, carried by 1,111 American boys and 11 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Oscar’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

7

Soul Urge · understanding

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on O (6) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Oscar’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

White · Blush · Moonlight white

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 1933, 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 Oscar apart

Oscar Griffin, Jr. took the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 1963, at 30.

The classrooms behind this chart: Moody College of Communication and University of Texas at Austin.

Cause of death is recorded as cancer.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Oscar Griffin, Jr.: People from New Waverly, Texas, Deaths from cancer in Texas and Businesspeople from Texas.

The same date carries Horst Faas. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Moody College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin and Harvard Business School
Awards
Golden Plate Award (1964) and Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting (1963)
Cause of death
cancer
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
2

What the chart says

Oscar, according to the stars

Core essence

Oscar is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Oscar is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Oscar processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Oscar needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Oscar wants to be loved

Oscar 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 Oscar is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Oscar creates

How Oscar makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Oscar builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Oscar is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Oscar 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Oscar channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Oscar's birth date. Working below.

Where Oscar sits

Six lines

Oscar’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Oscar

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Oscar

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Oscar

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Oscar

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Oscar

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Oscar

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Oscar Griffin, Jr.

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

Oscar’s birth-night reference starZosmawhite · LeoZosma, in Leo. A white star, 80.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Zosma →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 47.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Daisetta that night

Computed for 30.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Daisetta was Zosma, in Leo, 80.8° up.

Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 30.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −59.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 17% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 25° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Daisetta, United States

The death is recorded at New Waverly, Walker County in 2011.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Oscar Griffin, Jr.: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Oscar's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Jupiter · 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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Oscar Griffin, Jr. at a glance

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Oscar Griffin, Jr.'s Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 28, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Oscar Griffin, Jr. was born on April 28, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 3

Creative, loud, warm.

Oscar Griffin, Jr.'s birth date, April 28, 1933, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Oscar’s chart

Oscar’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.5° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.9° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.3° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.6° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.8° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.4° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.7° orbMars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 5.1° orbSun in Taurus · 7°59′☉7°Moon in Gemini · 21°37′☽21°Mercury in Aries · 12°18′☿12°Venus in Taurus · 9°50′♀9°Mars in Virgo · 2°26′♂2°Jupiter in Virgo · 13°30′ · retrograde♃℞13°Saturn in Aquarius · 15°44′♄15°Uranus in Aries · 24°12′♅24°Neptune in Virgo · 7°31′ · retrograde♆℞7°Pluto in Cancer · 21°21′♇21°

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

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Oscar’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus1.7° to 2.0° orb

    Oscar’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune1.7° to 2.9° orb

    Oscar’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn2.8° to 4.1° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter3.0° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter5.0° to 6.0° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineMars5.1° to 5.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.3° to 6.5° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.0° orb

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 27°09′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 26°56′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 16°59′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 27°23′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.7°

Oscar’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Oscar’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.2°
  • Mercury biquintile Neptune 1.2°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.2°
  • Sun quintile Pluto 1.4°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.2°

Born the same day as Oscar

Horst Faas was born on April 28, 1933 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. Daisetta sits at 30.1°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Oscar’s cards

Computed from April 28, 1933. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Oscar’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7106008 (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.

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Quick answers about Oscar Griffin, Jr.’s chart

What zodiac sign was Oscar Griffin, Jr.?
Oscar Griffin, Jr. was a Taurus: born April 28, 1933, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Oscar Griffin, Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 28, 1933 birth.
What was Oscar Griffin, Jr.'s Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Oscar Griffin, Jr.'s Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Oscar Griffin, Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Oscar Griffin, Jr.'s dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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