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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Monkey, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~10,964
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
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Buford’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 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.
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Buford Boone in 15 seconds
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. 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.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Buford Boone, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Leo 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.
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
Buford’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.6° to 2.7° orb
Buford’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrineUranus2.6° to 2.7° orb
Buford’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.8° to 4.1° orb
Buford’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineJupiter2.9° to 3.9° orb
Buford’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMarstrineSaturn5.0° to 5.6° orb
Buford’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 20°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Buford making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 22°48′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Buford is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°51′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Buford is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 21°46′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Buford needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Buford exacting with themselves first.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Buford’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. ♄ 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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Buford is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Buford’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.
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 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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Buford Boone, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Buford’s cards
Every card is computed from January 8, 1909, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Buford Boone, 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
Buford’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q97860555, 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.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey.
- 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 time was Buford Boone 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 was Buford Boone's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 8, 1909 birth date.
- What was Buford Boone's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 8, 1909 birth date.
- 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.
