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Price Day

Price Day (born November 4, 1907, Plainview, United States; died 1978), was an American war correspondent. Day's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

Price Day’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Price Day’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Architect

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#2347

US rank in 2025

~4,022

Americans share it since 1880

2006

its peak year

Price ranked 768th in 1907, the year of this birth, with 13 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Price’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

6

Soul Urge · being needed

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on P (7) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 7 and 9: analysis against empathy.

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

Price’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Crimson · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1907, 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 Price apart

Price Day took the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1949, at 42.

Training came by way of Princeton University.

Wikipedia's editors put Price Day under People from Plainview, Texas, American war correspondents of World War II and Princeton University alumni.

Matthew McConaughey (1969) and Tony Abbott (1957) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Princeton University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1949)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
3

What the chart says

Price, according to the stars

Core essence

Price does not do surface. The core of Price is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Price is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Price wants to be loved

Price wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Price even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Price creates

How Price makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Price creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Price is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Price 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Price goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Price's birth date. Working below.

Where Price sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Price

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Price

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Price

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Price

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Price

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Price

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Price Day

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Plainview 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 Plainview that night

Computed for 34.19°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Plainview at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 6.8° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 34.2°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 −55.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 39° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Plainview, United States

The death is recorded at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore in 1978.

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

How unusual Price's chart is

Chart pattern score

51 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Sun · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Price Day in 15 seconds

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Price Day's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 4, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Fire Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Price Day was born on November 4, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Price Day's birth date, November 4, 1907, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Price’s chart

Price’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.2° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.2° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.3° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.5° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 2.5° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.3° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.5° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.6° orbSun in Scorpio · 11°10′☉11°Moon in Libra · 25°46′☽25°Mercury in Scorpio · 29°33′ · retrograde☿℞29°Venus in Scorpio · 24°19′♀24°Mars in Aquarius · 13°40′♂13°Jupiter in Leo · 12°31′♃12°Saturn in Pisces · 21°03′ · retrograde♄℞21°Uranus in Capricorn · 9°38′♅9°Neptune in Cancer · 14°49′ · retrograde♆℞14°Pluto in Gemini · 24°32′ · retrograde♇℞24°

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

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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

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.9° to 1.8° orb

    Price’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.9° to 1.4° orb

    Price’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunsextileUranus1.0° to 2.0° orb

    Price’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsquareMars2.3° to 2.7° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn2.6° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune3.1° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto3.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.5° to 5.9° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune6.2° orb

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 4.1° to 17.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 13°11′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 21°13′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aries 12°43′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 22°09′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 23°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres opposition Saturn 0.2°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 0.2°
  • Chiron conjunction Mars 0.5°
  • Chiron opposition Jupiter 0.7°
  • Eros sextile Mars 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.9°
  • Chiron square Sun 2.0°
  • Eros square Neptune 2.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.4°

Price’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Price’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Mars, Jupiter, SunAn 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.

  • Venus quincunx Pluto 0.2°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
  • Venus semi-square Uranus 0.3°
  • Saturn quintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°

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Price’s cards

Computed from November 4, 1907. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Architect

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Price’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q97314755 (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 Price Day’s chart

What zodiac sign was Price Day?
Price Day was a Scorpio: born November 4, 1907, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Price Day's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 4, 1907 birth.
What was Price Day's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Price Day's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Price Day's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Price Day's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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