Trymaine Lee
Trymaine Lee (born September 20, 1978, United States), aged 48, is an American journalist. Lee's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, The Sidney Award and fellowship award.
Trymaine Lee’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Trymaine
Trymaine Lee’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
What Trymaine’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on T (2) 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
Trymaine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1978, 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 Trymaine apart
Trymaine Lee took the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2006, at 28.
The classrooms behind this chart: Milton Hershey School and Camden County College.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Trymaine Lee: Writers from Camden County, New Jersey, Milton Hershey School alumni and Rowan University alumni.
Sophia Loren (1934) and George R. R. Martin (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Milton Hershey School, Camden County College and Rowan University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting (2006) and The Sidney Award (2012)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
Trymaine, according to the stars
Core essence
Trymaine 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 Trymaine is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Trymaine is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Trymaine needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Trymaine wants to be loved
Trymaine 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 Trymaine even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Trymaine creates
How Trymaine makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Trymaine creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Trymaine 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Trymaine is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Trymaine runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Trymaine's birth date. Working below.
Where Trymaine sits
Six lines
Trymaine’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Trymaine Lee
Three stars chosen from the real sky above United States 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 United States that night
Computed for 39.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at United States was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 83.6° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 39.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 79% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 16° below the horizon.
How unusual Trymaine's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · 1 unaspected planet · A bowl chart
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Trymaine Lee's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 20, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Trymaine Lee was born on September 20, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Trymaine Lee's birth date, September 20, 1978, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Trymaine’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Trymaine Lee's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Trymaine Lee combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Trymaine’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Taurus 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Trymaine’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareJupiter2.0° to 2.5° orb
Trymaine’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.3° to 4.2° orb
Trymaine’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.4° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn3.8° to 4.4° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 3.8° to 16.6° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 4.2° to 16.2° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileUranusorb from 4.2° to 6.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Trymaine’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 9°07′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 11°19′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 20°37′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 26°18′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 27°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.1°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Venus 2.0°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.6°
Trymaine’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Trymaine’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, 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.
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.1°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.5°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°
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Also born on September 20
- Sophia Loren1934
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- Khabib Nurmagomedov1988
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- Gabriel MagalhãesBrazilian footballer (born 1997)
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Trymaine’s cards
Computed from September 20, 1978. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Trymaine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7848531 (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.
The same Trymaine Lee 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 Trymaine Lee.
Quick answers about Trymaine Lee’s chart
- How old is Trymaine Lee?
- Trymaine Lee is 48 years old, born September 20, 1978 in United States.
- What zodiac sign is Trymaine Lee?
- Trymaine Lee is a Virgo: born September 20, 1978, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Trymaine Lee's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 20, 1978 birth.
- What is Trymaine Lee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Trymaine Lee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Trymaine Lee's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Trymaine Lee's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
