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Tim Page

Tim Page (born October 11, 1954, San Diego, United States), aged 72, is an American journalist (b. 1954). Page's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Tim Page’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Tim Page’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Pioneer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#3230

US rank in 2025

~83,546

Americans share it since 1880

1960

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1954, Tim came 244th among boys and 6,553rd among girls, carried by 815 American boys and 5 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Tim’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

6

Soul Urge · being needed

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on T (2) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 7, which numerology reads as analysis.

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

Tim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Blush · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1954, 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 Tim apart

Tim Page took the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1997, at 43.

The classrooms behind this chart: E. O. Smith High School and Mannes College The New School for Music.

On the family side, Tim Page was born to Ellis Batten Page.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Tim Page: Radio personalities from New York City, People from Storrs, Connecticut and The New York Times critics.

Amitabh Bachchan (1942) and Michelle Trachtenberg (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
E. O. Smith High School, Mannes College The New School for Music and Columbia University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1997)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
4

What the chart says

Tim, according to the stars

Core essence

Tim makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Tim 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, Tim runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Tim needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Tim wants to be loved

Tim wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Tim even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Tim creates

How Tim makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Tim creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Tim is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Tim is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Tim does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Tim's birth date. Working below.

Where Tim sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Tim

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tim

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

PrivateExpressive
Tim

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Tim

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

PracticalVisionary
Tim

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Tim

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Tim Page

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

Tim’s birth-night reference starScheatdeep red · PegasusScheat, in Pegasus. A deep red star, 82° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Scheat →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 16.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over San Diego that night

Computed for 32.72°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at San Diego was Scheat, in Pegasus, 82.0° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 32.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from San Diego at all: they sit past the −57.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.

How unusual Tim's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Neptune · A bowl chart · 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.

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Tim Page in 15 seconds

Libra Sun

Charming. Still deciding.

Tim Page's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 11, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Wood Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Tim Page was born on October 11, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Tim Page's birth date, October 11, 1954, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Tim’s chart

Tim’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.4° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.7° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.8° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.2° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.6° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 2° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.4° orbSun in Libra · 17°58′☉17°Moon in Aries · 12°33′☽12°Mercury in Scorpio · 12°27′☿12°Venus in Scorpio · 26°40′♀26°Mars in Capricorn · 23°54′♂23°Jupiter in Cancer · 27°53′♃27°Saturn in Scorpio · 9°13′♄9°Uranus in Cancer · 27°28′♅27°Neptune in Libra · 25°30′♆25°Pluto in Leo · 26°15′♇26°

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

  • stableVenussquarePluto0.2° to 0.6° orb

    Tim’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.4° to 0.5° orb

    Tim’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenustrineUranus0.6° to 1.0° orb

    Tim’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.0° to 1.4° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune1.3° to 1.9° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune2.0° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars2.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.0° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus3.3° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.7° to 4.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable0 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 23°10′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 13°45′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 26°03′ (moves 0.50° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 19°01′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 13°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Pluto 0.2°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 0.5°
  • Chiron conjunction Mars 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.8°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.3°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.3°

Tim’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Tim’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Mars, Jupiter, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quintile Mars 0.5°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 1.0°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 2.3°

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Tim’s cards

Computed from October 11, 1954. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Pioneer

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

4 · Architect

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Tim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7804088 (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 KOMUnews/Nicole Thompson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Tim Page at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tim Page.

Quick answers about Tim Page’s chart

How old is Tim Page?
Tim Page is 72 years old, born October 11, 1954 in San Diego, United States.
What zodiac sign is Tim Page?
Tim Page is a Libra: born October 11, 1954, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Tim Page's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 11, 1954 birth.
What is Tim Page's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Tim Page's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Tim Page's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Tim Page's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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