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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Sonia
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 1895
1970
its peak year
In 1960, 951 American girls and 7 boys were registered Sonia — 303rd among girls and 3,619th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sonia’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
6
Soul Urge · being needed
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on S (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sonia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Sonia apart
Bernie Sanders (1941) and Avicii (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Sonia sits
Six lines
Sonia’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 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.
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 Sonia Nazario
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Madison 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 Madison that night
Computed for 43.07°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Madison at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.5° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
Madison sits at 43.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −46.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 85% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 18° down.
How unusual Sonia's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Mercury · A leaning bowl
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 →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Aries or Taurus 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
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.0° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.8° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 28°60′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 17°06′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 26°25′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 28°18′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.9°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.3°
- Eros square Mercury 2.6°
Sonia’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Sonia’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Sonia’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Reed WhittemoreAmerican poet
- James Larkin PearsonAmerican poet, newspaper publisher
- Timothy ZahnAmerican fantasy and science fiction novelist
Born in Rat years
- Cheryl BurkeAmerican dancer
- Richard BlaisAmerican chef
- Billy CrystalAmerican actor, comedian, writer, producer, director and television presenter (born 1948)
Also born on September 8
- Bernie Sanders1941
- Avicii1989
- Pink1979
- Wiz Khalifa1987
- Gaten Matarazzo2002
- David Arquette1971
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Jack KerouacAmerican writer
- Hedy Lamarr
- Sergey BrinAmerican billionaire businessman
Other Virgo Rat charts
- Idris ElbaBritish actor
- Colin FirthEnglish actor and producer
- Hugh GrantBritish actor
- Liam GallagherBritish singer
Other Steadfast Healers
- Michael JacksonAmerican singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer
- Isaac AsimovAmerican writer and biochemist
- Dag HammarskjöldSwedish diplomat, economist, and author
- Bruce WillisAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynRussian writer, publicist, poet and politician
- Rafael NadalSpanish tennis player
- Stephen KingAmerican novelist and writer
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Sonia’s cards
Computed from September 8, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sonia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7561739 (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 San Francisco Public Library, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sonia Nazario at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sonia Nazario.
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.
- 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 is Sonia Nazario's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sonia Nazario's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
