Walt Bogdanich
Walt Bogdanich (born October 10, 1950, Chicago, United States), aged 76, is an American journalist. Bogdanich's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, George Polk Award and Gerald Loeb Award.
Walt Bogdanich’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Walt
Walt Bogdanich’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Walt in the U.S.?
#3376
US rank in 2025
~2,634
Americans share it since 1893
1959
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1950, Walt came 1,812th, carried by 18 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Walt’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on W (5) and closes on T (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Walt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Walt apart
Gavin Newsom (1967) and Marina Diamandis (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Walt, according to the stars
Core essence
Walt makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Walt 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.
How Walt wants to be loved
Walt 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. Walt gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Walt creates
How Walt 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. Walt 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: Walt is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Walt is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Walt has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Walt's birth date. Working below.
Where Walt sits
Six lines
Walt’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Walt Bogdanich
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Scheat, in Pegasus, 74.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
How unusual Walt's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Libra · 1 unaspected planet
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.
Walt Bogdanich's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 10, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Walt Bogdanich was born on October 10, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Walt Bogdanich's birth date, October 10, 1950, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Walt’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Walt Bogdanich's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Walt Bogdanich combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Walt’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Virgo or Libra 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
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
Walt’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareUranus0.7° to 2.0° orb
Walt’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunsextilePluto2.1° to 3.1° orb
Walt’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileMars2.1° to 2.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn5.3° to 6.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.2° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 2.9° to 17.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Walt’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 17°41′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 20°20′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 1°42′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 24°21′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 0°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.8°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.9°
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.4°
- Chiron trine Pluto 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.4°
Walt’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Walt’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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 quincunx Uranus 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.2°
More people like Walt
Other university teachers
- Gary Ruvkun1952
- Shulamit Ran1949
- Peter J. Ratcliffe1954
- Susan Wood1948
- David Julius1955
- James P. Allison1948
Born in United States
- Wendy WassersteinAmerican playwright
- David BrinAmerican scientist and science fiction author (born 1950)
- Robert B. LaughlinAmerican physicist
- Edward P. JonesAmerican novelist, short story writer
- James RothmanAmerican biologist and Nobel laureate
- John Patrick ShanleyAmerican writer
More charts like Walt’s
Fellow Libra suns
- John CollinsAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
- Jaylen ClarkAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Sean PedullaAmerican basketball player
Born in Tiger years
- Lily GladstoneAmerican actress (born 1986)
- James A. Van AllenAmerican astrophysicist
- William WestmorelandUnited States Army general
Also born on October 10
- Gavin Newsom1967
- Marina Diamandis1985
- Brett Favre1969
- Mario Lopez1973
- Bradley Whitford1959
- Chris Penn1965
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Molly ShannonAmerican actress and comedian (born 1964)
- Ed SwiderskiWinner on Season 5 of the Bachelorette
- Jarret StollCanadian ice hockey player
Other Libra Tiger charts
- Matthew MacfadyenEnglish actor
- Paul Walter HauserAmerican actor
- Dwight D. Eisenhowerpresident of the United States from 1953 to 1961
- Anne EnrightIrish writer (born 1962)
Other Steadfast Strategists
- Don LemonAmerican journalist and news anchor
- Jason MesnickReality Show Participant
- Matt LanterAmerican actor
- Lin-Manuel MirandaAmerican songwriter and composer (born 1980)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- David SchwimmerAmerican actor
- Bukayo SakaEnglish footballer
- Anna Nicole SmithAmerican actress and television personality
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Walt’s cards
Computed from October 10, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Walt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q85992993 (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 UW School of Journalism & Mass Communication, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Walt Bogdanich 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 Walt Bogdanich.
Quick answers about Walt Bogdanich’s chart
- How old is Walt Bogdanich?
- Walt Bogdanich is 76 years old, born October 10, 1950 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Walt Bogdanich?
- Walt Bogdanich is a Libra: born October 10, 1950, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Walt Bogdanich's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 10, 1950 birth.
- What is Walt Bogdanich's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Walt Bogdanich's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Walt Bogdanich's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Walt Bogdanich's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
