Roy Gutman
Roy Gutman (born March 5, 1944, New York City, United States), aged 82, is an American journalist. Gutman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and George Polk Award.
Roy Gutman’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Roy
Roy Gutman’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Roy in the U.S.?
#525
US rank in 2025
~411,331
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
In 1944, 6,533 American boys and 36 girls were registered Roy — 39th among boys and 1,361st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Roy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
1
Soul Urge · independence
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 7, which numerology reads as analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Roy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green
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 1944, 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 Roy apart
The George Polk Award came in 1992, when Roy Gutman was 48.
The schooling ran through Haverford College and London School of Economics and Political Science.
On Wikipedia the categories read American war correspondents of the Yugoslav Wars, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and Haverford College alumni.
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922) and Eva Mendes (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Haverford College and London School of Economics and Political Science
- Awards
- George Polk Award (1992) and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1993)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 7
What the chart says
Roy, according to the stars
Core essence
Roy feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Roy is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Roy wants to be loved
Roy wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Roy be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Roy creates
How Roy 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. Roy 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: Roy is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Roy is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Roy scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Roy's birth date. Working below.
Where Roy sits
Six lines
Roy’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Roy Gutman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Castor, in Gemini, 79.1° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 87% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 24° below the horizon.
How unusual Roy's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Mercury · No Earth planets
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 →Roy Gutman at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
Roy Gutman's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 5, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Roy Gutman was born on March 5, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Roy Gutman's birth date, March 5, 1944, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Roy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roy Gutman's date-only chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Roy Gutman combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Roy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Cancer or 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
stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.5° orb
Roy’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.0° to 0.3° orb
Roy’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.3° to 0.7° orb
Roy’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.5° to 0.7° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune1.7° orb
stableUranussextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter2.7° to 4.0° orb
stableVenustrineMars3.0° to 3.8° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn3.3° to 4.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
stableSunsquareMars4.1° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn4.4° to 5.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Roy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 12°28′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 26°29′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 10°51′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 11°25′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 1°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Sun 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 2.6°
Roy’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Roy’s chart
Yod onto Mercury · Neptune, Pluto, MercuryTwo 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.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.9°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.4°
More people like Roy
Other journalists
- George Will1941
- Louis Kilzer1951
- Bernard L. Stein1941
- Paul Goldberger1950
- Jon Franklin1942
- Barry Bearak1949
Born in United States
- Carl BernsteinAmerican journalist (born 1944)
- Marvin HamlischAmerican composer and conductor
- Henry ThreadgillAmerican jazz musician (born 1944)
- Rudy GiulianiAmerican attorney and politician (born 1944)
- Richard FordAmerican novelist and short story writer
- Gladys KnightAmerican singer (born 1944)
More charts like Roy’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Billy CorganAmerican musician
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Born in Monkey years
- Ola Elizabeth WinslowAmerican colonial historian, professor of English
- George OppenAmerican poet
- Odell ShepardAmerican politician
Also born on March 5
- Pier Paolo Pasolini1922
- Eva Mendes1974
- Bernard Arnault1949
- Madison Beer1999
- Taylor Marie Hill1996
- Kevin Connolly1974
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Kobie TurnerAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Desjuan JohnsonAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Dan VillariAmerican football tight end, Michigan, Syracuse (2021–)
Other Pisces Monkey charts
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- Tyler OttAmerican football player
- Jihaad CampbellAmerican football player (born 2004)
- VJ PayneAmerican football player (born 2004)
Other Steadfast Storytellers
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- Steve KazeeAmerican actor (born 1975)
- Becca KufrinAmerican television personality
- Kym JohnsonAustralian ballroom dancer and TV performer
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Roy’s cards
Computed from March 5, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Roy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7372875 (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 Roy Gutman at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Roy Gutman.
Quick answers about Roy Gutman’s chart
- How old is Roy Gutman?
- Roy Gutman is 82 years old, born March 5, 1944 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Roy Gutman?
- Roy Gutman is a Pisces: born March 5, 1944, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Roy Gutman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 5, 1944 birth.
- What is Roy Gutman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Roy Gutman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Roy Gutman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Roy Gutman's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
