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Steve Breen

Steve Breen (born April 26, 1970, Los Angeles, United States), aged 56, is a Cartoonist. Breen is best known for Grand Avenue. Breen's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

Steve Breen’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Steve Breen’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

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

#1617

US rank in 2025

~242,131

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1970, Steve came 114th among boys and 4,018th among girls, carried by 2,930 American boys and 15 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Steve’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

2

Soul Urge · closeness

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on S (1) and closes on E (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

Steve’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

White · Blush · 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 1970, 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 Steve apart

What keeps Steve Breen in print: Grand Avenue.

Training came by way of University of California, Riverside.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Steve Breen: The San Diego Union-Tribune people, University of California, Riverside, alumni and Huntington Beach High School alumni.

The same date carries Melania Trump and Jacqueline Laurita. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Known for
Grand Avenue
Educated at
University of California, Riverside
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1998)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
2

What the chart says

Steve, according to the stars

Core essence

Steve is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Steve is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Steve is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Steve needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Steve wants to be loved

Steve wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Steve is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Steve creates

How Steve makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Steve creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Steve is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Steve is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

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

Computed from Steve's birth date. Working below.

Where Steve sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Steve

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Steve

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Steve

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Steve

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

PracticalVisionary
Steve

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Steve

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 Steve Breen

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

Steve’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 82.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 37.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Los Angeles that night

Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 7.7° of the exact zenith.

Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Los Angeles at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon down and 68% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Steve's chart is

Chart pattern score

50 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Taurus · 2 planets at a critical degree · 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.

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The quick version

Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

Steve Breen's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 26, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Metal Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Steve Breen was born on April 26, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 2

Quiet power, real power.

Steve Breen's birth date, April 26, 1970, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Steve’s chart

Steve’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.1° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.5° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.5° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.7° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.6° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 4.7° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 5.2° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 5.3° orbSun in Taurus · 6°07′☉6°Moon in Capricorn · 10°49′☽10°Mercury in Taurus · 22°22′☿22°Venus in Taurus · 28°42′♀28°Mars in Gemini · 5°29′♂5°Jupiter in Scorpio · 0°26′ · retrograde♃℞0°Saturn in Taurus · 11°20′♄11°Uranus in Libra · 5°33′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Sagittarius · 0°09′ · retrograde♆℞0°Pluto in Virgo · 25°04′ · retrograde♇℞25°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMarstrineUranus0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Steve’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMoontrineSaturn0.1° to 6.9° orb

    Steve’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.8° to 2.0° orb

    Steve’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto2.6° to 2.8° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto3.1° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.8° to 5.6° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune5.0° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter5.2° to 6.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.9° to 6.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars6.5° to 7.0° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune7.7° to 7.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 8°02′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 5°40′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 21°10′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 17°00′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres opposition Uranus 0.1°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 0.2°
  • Eros trine Mercury 1.2°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 2.5°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.5°

Steve’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Steve’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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.

  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.2°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 0.6°
  • Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.7°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°

Born the same day as Steve

2 other people here were born on April 26, 1970, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Los Angeles, at 34.1°N, nothing below −55.9° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Steve’s cards

Computed from April 26, 1970. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The High Priestess

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7612026 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Steve Breen at Wikipedia and X.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Steve Breen.

Quick answers about Steve Breen’s chart

How old is Steve Breen?
Steve Breen is 56 years old, born April 26, 1970 in Los Angeles, United States.
What zodiac sign is Steve Breen?
Steve Breen is a Taurus: born April 26, 1970, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Steve Breen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 26, 1970 birth.
What is Steve Breen's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Steve Breen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Steve Breen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Steve Breen's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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