Walter Pincus
Walter Pincus (born December 24, 1932, Brooklyn, United States), aged 93, is an American journalist. Pincus's honours include Emmy Award, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and George Polk Award.
Walter Pincus’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Water Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Walter
Walter Pincus’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Walter in the U.S.?
#252
US rank in 2025
~634,804
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1932, Walter came 21st among boys and 788th among girls, carried by 8,667 American boys and 75 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Walter’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on W (5) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Walter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1932, 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 Walter apart
Walter Pincus took the George Polk Award in 1977, at 45.
Training came by way of Yale University.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Walter Pincus: People associated with the Plame affair, South Side High School (Rockville Centre) alumni and Journalists from Brooklyn.
Ava Gardner (1922) and Ricky Martin (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Awards
- Emmy Award (1981), George Polk Award (1977) and Orwell Award (1977)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
What the chart says
Walter, according to the stars
Core essence
Walter is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Walter is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Walter wants to be loved
Walter wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Walter and watch them fall for you again.
How Walter creates
How Walter makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Walter creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Walter is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Walter is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Walter channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Walter's birth date. Working below.
Where Walter sits
Six lines
Walter’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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Walter Pincus
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 2.6° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 9% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.
How unusual Walter's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Walter Pincus at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Walter Pincus's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 24, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Walter Pincus was born on December 24, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Walter Pincus's birth date, December 24, 1932, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Walter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Walter Pincus' date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Walter Pincus combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Walter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.1° to 1.2° orb
Walter’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Walter’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.4° to 1.5° orb
Walter’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquarePluto3.3° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.0° to 5.8° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune5.3° to 6.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.9° to 6.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.5° to 6.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.6° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.5° to 15.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Walter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 24°21′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 9°02′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 7°56′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 9°19′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 26°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.2°
Walter’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Walter’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
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- Frank Peters Jr.1930
- Susan Sheehan1937
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on December 24
- Ava Gardner1922
- Ricky Martin1971
- Louis Tomlinson1991
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- Kate Spade1962
- Ryan Seacrest1974
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Marlene DietrichGerman and American actress and singer
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Other Capricorn Monkey charts
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Other Steadfast Diplomats
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From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Walter’s cards
Computed from December 24, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7965843 (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 Walter Pincus at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Walter Pincus.
Quick answers about Walter Pincus’s chart
- How old is Walter Pincus?
- Walter Pincus is 93 years old, born December 24, 1932 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Walter Pincus?
- Walter Pincus is a Capricorn: born December 24, 1932, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Walter Pincus's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 24, 1932 birth.
- What is Walter Pincus's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Walter Pincus's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Walter Pincus's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Walter Pincus's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
