Sheryl WuDunn
Sheryl WuDunn (born November 16, 1959, New York City, United States), aged 66, is an American journalist and executive. WuDunn's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and George Polk Award.
Sheryl WuDunn’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Sheryl
Sheryl WuDunn’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Sheryl in the U.S.?
#8281
US rank in 2025
~79,026
Americans share it since 1921
1957
its peak year
In 1959, 3,540 American girls and 7 boys were registered Sheryl — 128th among girls and 3,567th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sheryl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
11
Soul Urge · insight
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on S (1) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sheryl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
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 1959, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Sheryl apart
The George Polk Award came in 1989, when Sheryl WuDunn was 30.
The schooling ran through Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Ethical Culture Fieldston School.
Sheryl WuDunn was married Nicholas Kristof.
On Wikipedia the categories read American journalists of Chinese descent, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni and The New York Times corporate staff.
José Saramago (1922) and Chinua Achebe (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Cornell University
- Awards
- George Polk Award (1989) and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1990)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Sheryl, according to the stars
Core essence
Sheryl does not do surface. The core of Sheryl 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 Sheryl is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Sheryl processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Sheryl needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Sheryl wants to be loved
Sheryl wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Sheryl gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Sheryl creates
How Sheryl makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Sheryl creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Sheryl is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Sheryl is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Sheryl 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 Sheryl's birth date. Working below.
Where Sheryl sits
Six lines
Sheryl’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Sheryl WuDunn
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 Mirach, in Andromeda, 83.2° up.
Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
Sun 49° below the horizon, Moon up and 97% lit at full moon.
How unusual Sheryl's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Pluto · A bowl chart
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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Sheryl WuDunn's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 16, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Sheryl WuDunn was born on November 16, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Sheryl WuDunn's birth date, November 16, 1959, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Sheryl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sheryl WuDunn's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Sheryl WuDunn combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Sheryl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Gemini 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
stableMoonoppositionMercury0.0° to 7.7° orb
Sheryl’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
stableMoontrineVenus0.0° to 6.1° orb
Sheryl’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.1° to 6.7° orb
Sheryl’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.4° to 1.0° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter1.1° to 2.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus1.5° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableSunsquareUranus2.1° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto2.5° to 2.7° orb
stableMarssquareUranus2.7° to 3.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Sheryl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 22°47′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°10′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 18°17′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 26°22′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.1°
- Chiron square Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 2.0°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.7°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.8°
Sheryl’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Sheryl’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°
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Sheryl’s cards
Computed from November 16, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sheryl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7126275 (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 Marty555, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sheryl WuDunn at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sheryl WuDunn.
Quick answers about Sheryl WuDunn’s chart
- How old is Sheryl WuDunn?
- Sheryl WuDunn is 66 years old, born November 16, 1959 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Sheryl WuDunn?
- Sheryl WuDunn is a Scorpio: born November 16, 1959, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Sheryl WuDunn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 16, 1959 birth.
- What is Sheryl WuDunn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sheryl WuDunn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Sheryl WuDunn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sheryl WuDunn's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
