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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Stephen sits

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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 →

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.

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. 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.

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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.

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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Stephen’s chart

Stephen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Stephen Kurkjian, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Leo 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 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. 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.

  • 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

    Stephen’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.5° to 2.1° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareMars1.7° to 2.1° orb

    Stephen’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableSunsquareUranus3.8° to 4.7° orb

    Stephen’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus4.0° to 4.2° orb

    Stephen’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto5.1° to 5.3° orb

    Stephen’s growth and depths act as one.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.7° orb

    Stephen’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.9° to 6.4° orb

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

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Stephen turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.

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

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Stephen feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

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

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Stephen is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 13°13′ (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. Stephen is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Stephen is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

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 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°

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°).

Stephen’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. ☿ 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

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Stephen 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 Stephen’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.

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

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The Steadfast Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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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

No birth time is on public record for Stephen Kurkjian, 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

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

The same Stephen Kurkjian 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat.
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 time was Stephen Kurkjian 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 Stephen Kurkjian's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 28, 1943 birth date.
What is Stephen Kurkjian's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 28, 1943 birth date.
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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