Steve Coll
Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 68, is a Journalist, author, academic, and business executive (born 1958). Coll is best known for Directorate S, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power and Ghost Wars. Coll's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Lionel Gelber Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction.
Steve Coll’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Dog, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Steve
Steve Coll’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
Steve ranked 44th among boys and 2,064th among girls in 1958, the year of this birth, with 10,079 American boys and 30 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Steve’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on S (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
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
5 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets Steve apart
Matt Damon (1970) and Bruno Mars (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Steve, according to the stars
Core essence
Steve makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Steve is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Steve 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 Steve 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 Steve wants to be loved
Steve 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. Steve gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Steve creates
How Steve 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. Steve 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: 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Steve is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Steve Coll
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Washington at 9 p.m. that evening: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 6.0° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Washington on any night.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 20% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.
How unusual Steve's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Libra · A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all
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 →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Steve Coll's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 8, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Dog
Earth DogThe first call when it's bad.
Steve Coll was born on October 8, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Steve Coll's birth date, October 8, 1958, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Steve’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Steve Coll's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Steve Coll combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Steve’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Leo 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.1° to 1.1° orb
Steve’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb
Steve’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.9° to 2.6° orb
Steve’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquarePluto0.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.0° to 2.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.7° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableVenustrineMars3.1° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.2° to 5.3° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 6.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Steve’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 17°51′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 4°16′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 18°47′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 23°05′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.6°
- Ceres trine Mars 1.8°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 1.9°
- Eros square Saturn 1.9°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.4°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.4°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 2.9°
- Chiron trine Sun 3.0°
Steve’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Steve’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 0.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Mars quintile Uranus 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.2°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.3°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.9°
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Born in United States
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Born in Dog years
- Sarah SilvermanAmerican comedian, actress, and writer
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Also born on October 8
- Matt Damon1970
- Bruno Mars1985
- Juan Perón1895
- Barbara Palvin1993
- Zheng Qinwen2002
- Nick Cannon1980
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Miranda KerrAustralian model
- Khabib NurmagomedovRussian professional mixed martial artist
- James McAvoyScottish actor
Other Libra Dog charts
- Lee Boo-jinSouth Korean businesswoman
- Herb SimonAmerican businessman (born 1934)
- Brigitte BardotFrench actress, singer, animal rights activist
- Elfriede JelinekAustrian playwright and novelist
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Will ShipleyAmerican football player
- Andrew MukubaZimbabwean American football player (born 2002)
- Jedrick WillsAmerican football offensive tackle
- Reid FergusonAmerican football player from the United States
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Janelle BrownAmerican writer
- Charles BarkleyAmerican basketball player (born 1963)
- Sharna BurgessAustralian dancer
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Steve’s cards
Computed from October 8, 1958. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q128771 (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 Financial Times photos, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Steve Coll at Wikipedia, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Steve Coll.
Quick answers about Steve Coll’s chart
- How old is Steve Coll?
- Steve Coll is 68 years old, born October 8, 1958 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Steve Coll?
- Steve Coll is a Libra: born October 8, 1958, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Steve Coll's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 8, 1958 birth.
- What is Steve Coll's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Steve Coll's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Steve Coll's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Steve Coll's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
