Buford Boone
Buford Boone (born January 8, 1909, Newnan, United States; died 1983), was an Editor and part-owner of the Tuscaloosa News. Boone's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award.
Buford Boone’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Buford
Buford Boone’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 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Buford in the U.S.?
#10884
US rank in 2025
~10,964
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Buford ranked 408th in 1909, the year of this birth, with 36 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Buford’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on B (2) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Buford’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1908, 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 Buford apart
Buford Boone took the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1957, at 48.
Training came by way of Mercer University.
Elvis Presley (1935) and Stephen Hawking (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Mercer University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (1957) and Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (1957)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 1
What the chart says
Buford, according to the stars
Core essence
Buford is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Buford 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Buford needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Buford needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Buford wants to be loved
Buford 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 Buford and watch them fall for you again.
How Buford creates
How Buford 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. Buford 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: Buford 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Buford is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Buford leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Buford 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 Buford's birth date. Working below.
Where Buford sits
Six lines
Buford’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newnan on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Newnan that night
Computed for 33.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Newnan at 9 p.m. that evening: Atik of Perseus, within 1.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 33.4°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 −56.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 94% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 39° down.
How unusual Buford's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · 1 planet 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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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Buford Boone's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 8, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Buford Boone was born on January 8, 1909, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Buford Boone's birth date, January 8, 1909, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Buford’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Buford Boone's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Buford Boone 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.
Buford’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.3° to 1.2° orb
Buford’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysextileMars1.3° to 2.3° orb
Buford’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.3° orb
Buford’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.6° to 2.7° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.8° to 4.1° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.0° to 5.6° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 1.3° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 3.9° to 14.7° depending on birth time
possibleVenussquareJupiterorb from 5.9° to 7.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Buford’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 20°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 22°48′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°51′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 21°46′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.1°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.4°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 1.6°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 1.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 3.0°
Buford’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Buford’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Buford’s cards
Computed from January 8, 1909. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Buford’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q97860555 (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 Buford Boone.
Quick answers about Buford Boone’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Buford Boone?
- Buford Boone was a Capricorn: born January 8, 1909, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Buford Boone's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 8, 1909 birth.
- What was Buford Boone's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Buford Boone's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Buford Boone's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Buford Boone's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
