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Warren L. Lerude

Warren L. Lerude (born October 29, 1937, Reno, United States), aged 89, is an American journalist and professor of journalism. Lerude's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, member of the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame and Distinguished Nevadan.

Warren L. Lerude’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Warren L. Lerude’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#240

US rank in 2025

~185,502

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

Warren ranked 106th in 1937, the year of this birth, with 1,822 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Warren’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

1

Soul Urge · independence

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on W (5) and closes on N (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

Warren’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy

Amber · Crimson · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1937, 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 Warren apart

Warren L. Lerude took the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1977, at 40.

The classrooms behind this chart: University of Nevada, Reno.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938) and Winona Ryder (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Nevada, Reno
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (1977) and Distinguished Nevadan (2020)
Citizenship
United States

What the chart says

Warren, according to the stars

Core essence

Warren does not do surface. The core of Warren is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Warren is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Warren is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Warren needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Warren wants to be loved

Warren 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. Warren gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Warren creates

How Warren 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. Warren 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: Warren is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Warren is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Warren 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 Warren's birth date. Working below.

Where Warren sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Warren

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Warren

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

PrivateExpressive
Warren

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Warren

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Warren

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Warren

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

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The sky over Reno that night

Computed for 39.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Reno was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 77.4° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.

From 39.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Reno at all: they sit past the −50.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon down and 15% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Warren's chart is

Chart pattern score

25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · 2 planets at a critical degree

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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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

Reads the room. Says nothing.

Warren L. Lerude's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 29, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Fire Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Warren L. Lerude was born on October 29, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Warren L. Lerude's birth date, October 29, 1937, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Warren’s chart

Warren’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.1° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.2° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.3° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.4° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.8° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 4° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 4.3° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4.4° orbSun in Scorpio · 5°59′☉5°Moon in Virgo · 16°17′☽16°Mercury in Scorpio · 6°15′☿6°Venus in Libra · 12°34′♀12°Mars in Capricorn · 20°33′♂20°Jupiter in Capricorn · 20°41′♃20°Saturn in Pisces · 29°17′ · retrograde♄℞29°Uranus in Taurus · 11°55′ · retrograde♅℞11°Neptune in Virgo · 20°20′♆20°Pluto in Leo · 0°08′♇0°

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Warren’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Warren’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Warren’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune0.3° to 0.4° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.8° to 6.5° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto5.3° to 6.9° orb

  • stableSunoppositionUranus5.4° to 6.5° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto5.4° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 0°58′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 17°38′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 13°35′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 14°05′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 13°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Venus 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Chiron square Saturn 1.7°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 2.2°

Warren’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Warren’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 quintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Neptune 0.6°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 0.6°
  • Sun biquintile Saturn 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.9°
  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.0°

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Warren’s cards

Computed from October 29, 1937. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Warren’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q63036927 (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.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Warren L. Lerude.

Quick answers about Warren L. Lerude’s chart

How old is Warren L. Lerude?
Warren L. Lerude is 89 years old, born October 29, 1937 in Reno, United States.
What zodiac sign is Warren L. Lerude?
Warren L. Lerude is a Scorpio: born October 29, 1937, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Warren L. Lerude's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 29, 1937 birth.
What is Warren L. Lerude's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Warren L. Lerude's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Warren L. Lerude's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Warren L. Lerude's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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