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Stephen Kurkjian

Stephen Kurkjian (born August 28, 1943, Boston, United States), aged 83, is an American journalist. Kurkjian's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and George Polk Award.

Stephen Kurkjian’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Stephen Kurkjian’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Storyteller

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#383

US rank in 2025

~867,669

Americans share it since 1880

1952

its peak year

The SSA recorded 7,932 American boys and 19 girls named Stephen in 1943: 29th among boys and 2,069th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Stephen’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

5

Soul Urge · freedom

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white

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 1943, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Stephen apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting came in 1980, when Stephen Kurkjian was 37.

The schooling ran through Suffolk University Law School and Boston Latin School.

Wikipedia files Stephen Kurkjian under Boston Latin School alumni, The Boston Globe people and American people of Armenian descent.

Jack Black (1969) and Shania Twain (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Suffolk University Law School and Boston Latin School
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (1995), George Polk Award (1982) and Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (1980)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
6

What the chart says

Stephen, according to the stars

Core essence

Stephen 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 Stephen is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Stephen needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Stephen needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Stephen wants to be loved

Stephen wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Stephen and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Stephen creates

How Stephen makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Stephen creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Stephen is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Stephen is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Stephen scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Stephen's birth date. Working below.

Where Stephen sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Stephen

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Stephen

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Stephen

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Stephen

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Stephen

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Stephen

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Stephen Kurkjian

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

Stephen’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 86.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 14.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Boston that night

Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Boston was Vega, in Lyra, 86.2° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.

Boston sits at 42.4°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 Boston at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 16° down.

How unusual Stephen's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · No Water planets

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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Stephen Kurkjian at a glance

Virgo Sun

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

Stephen Kurkjian's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 28, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Water Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Stephen Kurkjian was born on August 28, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Stephen Kurkjian's birth date, August 28, 1943, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Stephen’s chart

Stephen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Mars · Trine, 0.9° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.9° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.8° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 1.9° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.2° orbMoon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.2° orbSun in Virgo · 4°28′☉4°Moon in Leo · 10°53′☽10°Mercury in Libra · 1°40′☿1°Venus in Virgo · 17°18′ · retrograde♀℞17°Mars in Gemini · 2°35′♂2°Jupiter in Leo · 12°51′♃12°Saturn in Gemini · 25°04′♄25°Uranus in Gemini · 8°43′♅8°Neptune in Libra · 0°47′♆0°Pluto in Leo · 7°39′♇7°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 7.7° orb

    Stephen’s feelings and growth act as one.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.4° to 1.3° orb

    Stephen’s mind and imagination act as one.

  • stableMercurytrineMars0.7° to 1.1° orb

    Stephen’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.1° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.5° to 2.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars1.7° to 2.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus3.8° to 4.7° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus4.0° to 4.2° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto5.1° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.7° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.9° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo 4°24′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 25°32′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 3°40′ (moves 0.81° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 13°13′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 10°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron conjunction Sun 0.1°
  • Ceres conjunction Saturn 0.5°
  • Eros trine Mars 1.1°
  • Chiron square Mars 1.8°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 2.2°
  • Eros conjunction Neptune 2.9°

Stephen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Stephen’s chart

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

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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households

Stephen’s cards

Computed from August 28, 1943. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19880737 (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 Արարատ Թրվանց, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Stephen Kurkjian at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Stephen Kurkjian.

Quick answers about Stephen Kurkjian’s chart

How old is Stephen Kurkjian?
Stephen Kurkjian is 83 years old, born August 28, 1943 in Boston, United States.
What zodiac sign is Stephen Kurkjian?
Stephen Kurkjian is a Virgo: born August 28, 1943, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Stephen Kurkjian's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 28, 1943 birth.
What is Stephen Kurkjian's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Stephen Kurkjian's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Stephen Kurkjian's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Stephen Kurkjian's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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