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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Monkey, with 
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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
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Walter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Walter sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Walter Pincus, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
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
Walter’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareMars5.0° to 5.8° orb
Walter’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareNeptune5.3° to 6.6° orb
Walter’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.9° to 6.2° orb
Walter’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.5° to 6.7° orb
Walter’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.6° to 6.9° orb
Walter’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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 ℞Taurus 24°21′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Walter building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresAquarius 9°02′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Walter is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosScorpio 7°56′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Walter is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 9°19′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Walter carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 26°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Walter is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Walter’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Walter is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Walter’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Walter Pincus, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Walter’s cards
Every card is computed from December 24, 1932, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Walter Pincus, 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
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7965843, 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.
The same Walter Pincus at Wikipedia.
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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Monkey.
- 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 time was Walter Pincus 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 Walter Pincus's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the December 24, 1932 birth date.
- What is Walter Pincus's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 24, 1932 birth date.
- 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.
