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Dorian Finney-Smith

Dorian Finney-Smith (born May 4, 1993, Portsmouth, United States), aged 33, is an American basketball player (1993-). Finney-Smith has played for Dallas Mavericks, Brooklyn Nets and Florida Gators men's basketball.

Dorian Finney-Smith’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Water Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Dorian Finney-Smith’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#539

US rank in 2025

~28,728

Americans share it since 1915

2008

its peak year

In 1993, 362 American boys and 93 girls were registered Dorian — 539th among boys and 1,630th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Dorian’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Dorian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Blush · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1993, 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 Dorian apart

Study took Dorian Finney-Smith to Virginia Tech.

Dorian Finney-Smith was 23 when the work began in 2016.

On Wikipedia the categories read Basketball players from Portsmouth, Virginia, Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball players and Florida Gators men's basketball players.

Audrey Hepburn (1929) and Fernandinho (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Virginia Tech
Working from
2016
Sport
basketball
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
19

What the chart says

Dorian, according to the stars

Core essence

Dorian is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Dorian is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Dorian wants to be loved

Dorian wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Dorian creates

How Dorian makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Dorian creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Dorian is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Dorian is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Dorian fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Dorian's birth date. Working below.

Where Dorian sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Dorian

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dorian

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Dorian

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dorian

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Dorian

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dorian

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Dorian Finney-Smith

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth that night

Computed for 36.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Portsmouth at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 6.7° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

Portsmouth sits at 36.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −53.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.

How unusual Dorian's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Dorian Finney-Smith in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Dorian Finney-Smith's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 4, 1993, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Dorian Finney-Smith was born on May 4, 1993, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

Dorian Finney-Smith's birth date, May 4, 1993, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Dorian’s chart

Dorian’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 0.5° orbUranus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.7° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.8° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.2° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.6° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.8° orbSun in Taurus · 14°11′☉14°Moon in Libra · 23°52′☽23°Mercury in Taurus · 1°27′☿1°Venus in Aries · 6°21′♀6°Mars in Leo · 3°14′♂3°Jupiter in Libra · 5°52′ · retrograde♃℞5°Saturn in Aquarius · 29°15′♄29°Uranus in Capricorn · 22°10′ · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Capricorn · 21°07′ · retrograde♆℞21°Pluto in Scorpio · 24°26′ · retrograde♇℞24°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter0.2° to 0.7° orb

    Dorian’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune1.0° orb

    Dorian’s need for freedom and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurysquareMars1.1° to 2.5° orb

    Dorian’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn1.3° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter2.3° to 2.9° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.3° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable0 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 17°28′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 7°59′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 10°05′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 24°41′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 22°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.2°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 1.6°
  • Ceres opposition Jupiter 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.1°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.5°

Dorian’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Dorian’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.

  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.6°

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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?

Dorian’s cards

Computed from May 4, 1993. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Emperor

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

4 · Architect

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Dorian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q25757154 (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.

Portrait by Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Dorian Finney-Smith at Wikipedia and X.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dorian Finney-Smith.

Quick answers about Dorian Finney-Smith’s chart

How old is Dorian Finney-Smith?
Dorian Finney-Smith is 33 years old, born May 4, 1993 in Portsmouth, United States.
What zodiac sign is Dorian Finney-Smith?
Dorian Finney-Smith is a Taurus: born May 4, 1993, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Dorian Finney-Smith's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 4, 1993 birth.
How tall is Dorian Finney-Smith?
Dorian Finney-Smith is 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Dorian Finney-Smith's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Dorian Finney-Smith's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Dorian Finney-Smith's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Dorian Finney-Smith's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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