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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Seymour’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Seymour sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

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. 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 Seymour’s chart

Seymour’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Seymour Hersh, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Seymour’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.3° to 6.1° orb

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

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.2° to 5.7° orb

    Seymour’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableVenussquarePluto6.2° to 6.7° orb

    Seymour’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • 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

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.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 19°00′ (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 Seymour turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

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

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

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Seymour is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

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

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Seymour is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 6°29′ (moves 0.20° 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. Seymour is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 20°47′ (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. Seymour 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 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°

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°).

Seymour’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. 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

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Seymour is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Seymour’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Seymour Hersh, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Seymour’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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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

No birth time is on public record for Seymour Hersh, 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

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

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

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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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox.
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 time was Seymour Hersh 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 is Seymour Hersh's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 8, 1937 birth date.
What is Seymour Hersh's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 8, 1937 birth date.
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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