Craig Flournoy
Craig Flournoy (born June 26, 1951, Shreveport, United States), aged 75, is an American journalist and teacher, Pulitzer Prize winner. Flournoy's honours include Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and Worth Bingham Prize.
Craig Flournoy’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Craig
Craig Flournoy’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Craig in the U.S.?
#1644
US rank in 2025
~300,628
Americans share it since 1881
1960
its peak year
The SSA recorded 5,623 American boys and 14 girls named Craig in 1951: 63rd among boys and 2,834th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Craig’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on C (3) and closes on G (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Craig’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Craig apart
Ariana Grande (1993) and Aubrey Plaza (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Craig, according to the stars
Core essence
Craig feels the room before entering it. The core of Craig is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Craig, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Craig runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Craig needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Craig wants to be loved
Craig wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Craig openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Craig creates
How Craig makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Craig creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Craig is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Craig is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Craig scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Craig's birth date. Working below.
Where Craig sits
Six lines
Craig’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Craig Flournoy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shreveport 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 Shreveport that night
Computed for 32.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Shreveport at 9 p.m. that evening: Izar of Boötes, within 10.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Shreveport sits at 32.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −57.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Shreveport on any night.
Sun 6° below the horizon, Moon down and 42% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Craig's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · A leaning bowl
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Craig Flournoy's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 26, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Craig Flournoy was born on June 26, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Craig Flournoy's birth date, June 26, 1951, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Craig’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Craig Flournoy's date-only chart is Mars square Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Craig Flournoy combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Craig’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Aries 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
stableMoonsquareUranus0.1° to 6.5° orb
Craig’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.7° to 2.0° orb
Craig’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.8° to 1.5° orb
Craig’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.1° to 2.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus2.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.7° to 4.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus4.6° to 5.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.2° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Craig’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 29°27′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 16°07′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 3°46′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 20°11′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 29°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Sun 0.5°
- Eros square Mercury 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 3.0°
Craig’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Craig’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 1.2°
More people like Craig
Other journalists
- Linda Greenhouse1947
- David Horsey1951
- Jack Fuller1946
- Jacqui Banaszynski1952
- Lucinda Franks1946
- Eileen McNamara1952
Born in United States
- Barbara StrauchAmerican writer
- John DoerrAmerican businessman
- Joy HarjoAmerican Poet Laureate
- Rick Sternbachscience fiction artist
- Jackie JacksonAmerican singer
- Anjelica HustonAmerican actress (born 1951)
More charts like Craig’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Vinnie HackerAmerican social media personality
- Nico WilliamsSpanish footballer
- Count Felix of MonpezatDanish former prince; younger son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
Born in Rabbit years
- Wallace StevensAmerican poet
- Edmund S. MorganAmerican historian
- David HorseyAmerican cartoonist and columnist (born 1951)
Also born on June 26
- Ariana Grande1993
- Aubrey Plaza1984
- Jennette McCurdy1992
- Jacob Elordi1997
- Iman Shumpert1990
- Andrew Bachelor1988
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Salif KeitaMalian singer-songwriter, referred to as the "Golden Voice of Africa"
- Jason SudeikisAmerican actor and comedian
- CiaraAmerican singer, songwriter, and dancer
Other Cancer Rabbit charts
- Corin RedgraveBritish actor
- Chris CooperAmerican actor (1951-)
- Yann MartelCanadian writer
- Terence TaoAustralian-American mathematician
Other Radiant Diplomats
- Frederic L. PaxsonPulitzer Prize for History winner
- Gregory White SmithPulitzer Prize-winning American biographer
- Du YunChinese-born American composer, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist
- Jon FranklinAmerican science writer
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Maria SharapovaRussian tennis player
- Shirin EbadiIranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Hayao MiyazakiJapanese animator, film director, and mangaka
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Craig’s cards
Computed from June 26, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Craig’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5180967 (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 Craig Flournoy at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Craig Flournoy.
Quick answers about Craig Flournoy’s chart
- How old is Craig Flournoy?
- Craig Flournoy is 75 years old, born June 26, 1951 in Shreveport, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Craig Flournoy?
- Craig Flournoy is a Cancer: born June 26, 1951, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Craig Flournoy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 26, 1951 birth.
- What is Craig Flournoy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Craig Flournoy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Craig Flournoy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Craig Flournoy's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
