Steve Coll
Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 67, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Dog, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Steve’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Steve Coll, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° 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.
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.
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.
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
Steve’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.0° to 2.7° orb
Steve’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb
Steve’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.7° to 4.3° orb
Steve’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitersextilePluto2.7° to 2.9° orb
Steve’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableVenustrineMars3.1° to 4.3° orb
Steve’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.2° to 5.3° orb
Steve’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 17°51′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Steve making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresLibra 4°16′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Steve is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 18°47′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Steve is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 23°05′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Steve needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Steve carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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 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°
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°).
Steve’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Steve is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Steve’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.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Steve Coll, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Steve’s cards
Every card is computed from October 8, 1958, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Steve Coll, 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
Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q128771, 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 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. 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 Steve Coll.
Quick answers about Steve Coll’s chart
- How old is Steve Coll?
- Steve Coll is 67 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog.
- 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 time was Steve Coll 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 Steve Coll's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the October 8, 1958 birth date.
- What is Steve Coll's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 8, 1958 birth date.
- 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.
