Patrick J. Sloyan
Patrick J. Sloyan (born January 11, 1937, Stamford, United States; died 2019), was an American journalist. Sloyan's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and George Polk Award.
Patrick J. Sloyan’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Patrick
Patrick J. Sloyan’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Patrick in the U.S.?
#235
US rank in 2025
~689,424
Americans share it since 1880
1964
its peak year
Patrick ranked 94th among boys and 3,369th among girls in 1937, the year of this birth, with 2,090 American boys and 8 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Patrick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Patrick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1936, 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 Patrick apart
Patrick J. Sloyan took the George Polk Award in 1991, at 54.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Maryland.
Wikipedia's editors put Patrick J. Sloyan under University System of Maryland alumni and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners.
Siti Nurhaliza (1979) and Mary J. Blige (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Maryland
- Awards
- George Polk Award (1991) and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1992)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
Patrick, according to the stars
Core essence
Patrick is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Patrick is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Patrick is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Patrick needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Patrick wants to be loved
Patrick wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Patrick, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Patrick creates
How Patrick 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. Patrick 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: Patrick is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Patrick is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Patrick runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Patrick's birth date. Working below.
Where Patrick sits
Six lines
Patrick’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Patrick J. Sloyan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Stamford 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 Stamford that night
Computed for 41.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Stamford was Menkib, in Perseus, 81.2° up.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 41.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Stamford at all: they sit past the −48.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Stamford, United States
The death is recorded at Paeonian Springs, Loudoun County in 2019.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Patrick J. Sloyan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Patrick's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · T-square onto Mars · Only two elements
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Patrick J. Sloyan's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 11, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Patrick J. Sloyan was born on January 11, 1937, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Patrick J. Sloyan's birth date, January 11, 1937, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Patrick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Patrick J. Sloyan's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Patrick J. Sloyan combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Patrick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 6.5° orb
Patrick’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
Patrick’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussextileUranus0.2° to 1.3° orb
Patrick’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune1.7° to 2.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.2° to 2.7° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableVenustrineMars2.9° to 3.5° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurysquareMars4.0° to 5.6° orb
stableMarssquarePluto5.1° to 5.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire or Air signs.
Patrick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 18°50′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°38′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 13°07′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 5°37′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 11°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Neptune 0.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.0°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.5°
Patrick’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Patrick’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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 Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.7°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
More people like Patrick
Other journalists
- George Will1941
- Norman Charles Miller1934
- Bernard L. Stein1941
- Hedrick Smith1933
- Jon Franklin1942
- J. Anthony Lukas1933
Born in United States
- Edward L. FermanAmerican science fiction writer and editor
- Grace BumbryAmerican opera singer
- David Del TrediciAmerican composer
- Mary Tyler MooreAmerican actress and television producer
- Warren BeattyAmerican actor and filmmaker
- Frederic ForrestAmerican actor
More charts like Patrick’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Tiger WoodsAmerican golfer
- Tu YouyouChinese medical scientist
- Jude LawEnglish actor
Born in Rat years
- Dana PerinoAmerican conservative political commentator and the 24th White House Press Secretary (born 1972)
- John BoltonAmerican lawyer and diplomat (born 1948)
- Antonio BanderasSpanish actor
Also born on January 11
- Siti Nurhaliza1979
- Mary J. Blige1971
- Kyle Richards1969
- Amanda Peet1972
- Lindsay Arnold1994
- Yolanda Hadid1964
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- José SáPortuguese footballer (born 1993)
- Giorgian de ArrascaetaUruguayan footballer
- Borja IglesiasSpanish footballer
Other Capricorn Rat charts
- David LeonhardtAmerican journalist
- Lawrence KasdanAmerican film director and film producer
- Grace BumbryAmerican opera singer
- Patrick PentzAustrian association football player
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Abraham LincolnPresident of the United States from 1861 to 1865
- Charles DarwinEnglish naturalist and biologist
- Franklin Delano RooseveltPresident of the United States from 1933 to 1945
- Mark ZuckerbergAmerican Internet entrepreneur
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Levi OnwuzurikeAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Jameson WilliamsAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Roger McCrearyAmerican football player (born 2000)
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Patrick’s cards
Computed from January 11, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Patrick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q50354441 (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.
The same Patrick J. Sloyan at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Patrick J. Sloyan.
Quick answers about Patrick J. Sloyan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Patrick J. Sloyan?
- Patrick J. Sloyan was a Capricorn: born January 11, 1937, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Patrick J. Sloyan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 11, 1937 birth.
- What was Patrick J. Sloyan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Patrick J. Sloyan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Patrick J. Sloyan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Patrick J. Sloyan's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
