Sonia Nazario
Sonia Nazario (born September 8, 1960, Madison, United States), aged 66, is a Journalist. Nazario's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and George Polk Award.
Sonia Nazario’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rat, with 
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Sonia Nazario’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Sonia in the U.S.?
#1307
US rank in 2025
~67,026
Americans share it since 1880
1970
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Sonia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
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What the chart says
Sonia, according to the stars
Core essence
Sonia notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Sonia is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Sonia wants to be loved
Sonia 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. Sonia gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Sonia creates
How Sonia makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Sonia creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Sonia is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Sonia 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Sonia scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Sonia's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Sonia Nazario's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 8, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Sonia Nazario was born on September 8, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Sonia Nazario's birth date, September 8, 1960, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Sonia’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sonia Nazario's date-only chart is Mars sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sonia Nazario combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Sonia’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Sonia Nazario, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 1.1° orb
Sonia’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.0° to 1.4° orb
Sonia’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Sonia’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.8° to 1.3° orb
Sonia’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
Sonia’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° orb
Sonia’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.7° to 4.6° orb
Sonia’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareSaturn4.0° to 5.2° orb
Sonia’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.8° orb
Sonia’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.6° orb
Sonia’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Sonia’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 28°60′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Sonia making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 17°06′ (moves 0.15° 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. Sonia is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosGemini 26°25′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Sonia is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 28°18′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Sonia is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Sonia guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.9°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.3°
- Eros square Mercury 2.6°
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°).
Sonia’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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Sonia is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Sonia’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.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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 onto Mercury · Mars, Jupiter, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sonia Nazario, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Sonia’s cards
Every card is computed from September 8, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Sonia Nazario, 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
Sonia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7561739, 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 San Francisco Public Library, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sonia Nazario at Wikipedia.
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 Sonia Nazario’s chart
- How old is Sonia Nazario?
- Sonia Nazario is 66 years old, born September 8, 1960 in Madison, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Sonia Nazario?
- Sonia Nazario is a Virgo: born September 8, 1960, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat.
- What is Sonia Nazario's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 8, 1960 birth.
- What time was Sonia Nazario 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 Sonia Nazario's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the September 8, 1960 birth date.
- What is Sonia Nazario's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 8, 1960 birth date.
- Where is Sonia Nazario's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sonia Nazario's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
