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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rat, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Patrick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Patrick J. Sloyan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Capricorn 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.
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
Patrick’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrineNeptune1.7° to 2.8° orb
Patrick’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.2° to 2.7° orb
Patrick’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextileSaturn2.4° to 3.4° orb
Patrick’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.4° to 3.3° orb
Patrick’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenustrineMars2.9° to 3.5° orb
Patrick’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableJupitertrineUranus3.5° to 3.7° orb
Patrick’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareMars4.0° to 5.6° orb
Patrick’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquarePluto5.1° to 5.6° orb
Patrick’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 18°50′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Patrick turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°38′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Patrick caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCapricorn 13°07′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Patrick is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 5°37′ (moves 0.19° 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. Patrick is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 11°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Patrick is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Patrick’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. ♄ 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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Patrick is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Patrick’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 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 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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.7°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Patrick J. Sloyan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Rat years
- Dana PerinoAmerican conservative political commentator and the 24th White House Press Secretary (born 1972)
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- 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
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Other Capricorn Rat charts
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Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Abraham LincolnPresident of the United States from 1861 to 1865
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Patrick’s cards
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♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Patrick J. Sloyan, 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
Patrick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q50354441, 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.
The same Patrick J. Sloyan at Wikipedia.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
- 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 time was Patrick J. Sloyan 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 was Patrick J. Sloyan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 11, 1937 birth date.
- What was Patrick J. Sloyan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 11, 1937 birth date.
- 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.
