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Seymour Hersh

Seymour Hersh (born April 8, 1937, Chicago, United States), aged 89, is an American investigative journalist (born 1937). Hersh is best known for The Killing of Osama bin Laden. Hersh's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, George Polk Award and Preis für die Freiheit und Zukunft der Medien.

Seymour Hersh’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Seymour Hersh’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Pioneer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

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

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

#7594

US rank in 2025

~13,122

Americans share it since 1880

1924

its peak year

In 1937, 145 American boys were registered Seymour — 467th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Seymour’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

1

Soul Urge · independence

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on S (1) and closes on R (9).

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

Seymour’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy

White · Crimson · Flame orange

The record

What sets Seymour apart

Kofi Annan (1938) and Vivienne Westwood (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Seymour, according to the stars

Core essence

Seymour leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Seymour is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Seymour is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Seymour needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Seymour wants to be loved

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

How Seymour creates

How Seymour makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Seymour creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Seymour is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Seymour 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Seymour has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Seymour's birth date. Working below.

Where Seymour sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Seymour

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Seymour

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Seymour

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Seymour

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Seymour

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Seymour

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Seymour Hersh

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

Seymour’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 89.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 35.9° 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 Chicago that night

Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 89.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

Chicago sits at 41.9°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 Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 6% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.

How unusual Seymour's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · No Air planets · Venus retrograde

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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If you only read one paragraph

Aries Sun

Impatient, and usually right to be.

Seymour Hersh's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 8, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Fire Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Seymour Hersh was born on April 8, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Seymour Hersh's birth date, April 8, 1937, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Seymour’s chart

Seymour’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.2° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.2° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.6° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.8° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 5.2° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 5.4° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 6.4° orbSun in Aries · 18°29′☉18°Moon in Pisces · 14°37′☽14°Mercury in Taurus · 3°11′☿3°Venus in Taurus · 2°57′ · retrograde♀℞2°Mars in Sagittarius · 5°20′♂5°Jupiter in Capricorn · 25°16′♃25°Saturn in Pisces · 28°06′♄28°Uranus in Taurus · 8°21′♅8°Neptune in Virgo · 16°47′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Cancer · 26°30′ · retrograde♇℞26°

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Seymour’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.2° to 1.3° orb

    Seymour’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb

    Seymour’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn2.8° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.3° to 6.1° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.2° to 5.7° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto6.2° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 13.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 2.2° to 16.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 3.5° to 17.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 4.4° to 19.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 19°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 16°33′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 3°41′ (moves 0.56° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 6°29′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 20°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Sun 0.5°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 0.5°
  • Eros sextile Venus 0.7°
  • Eros square Mars 1.6°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.9°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.2°

Seymour’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Seymour’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
  • Sun quincunx Neptune 1.7°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.8°
  • Mercury quincunx Mars 2.1°
  • Venus quincunx Mars 2.4°

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Seymour’s cards

Computed from April 8, 1937. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Pioneer

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Seymour’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q435792 (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.

Portrait by Giorgio Montersino from Milan, Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Seymour Hersh at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Seymour Hersh.

Quick answers about Seymour Hersh’s chart

How old is Seymour Hersh?
Seymour Hersh is 89 years old, born April 8, 1937 in Chicago, United States.
What zodiac sign is Seymour Hersh?
Seymour Hersh is an Aries: born April 8, 1937, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Seymour Hersh's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 8, 1937 birth.
What is Seymour Hersh's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Seymour Hersh's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Seymour Hersh's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Seymour Hersh's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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