Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943, Brooklyn, United States), aged 83, is an American biographer and historian (born 1943). Goodwin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, National Humanities Medal and American History Book Prize.
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Doris
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Doris in the U.S.?
#2909
US rank in 2025
~465,789
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
Doris ranked 40th among girls and 1,077th among boys in 1943, the year of this birth, with 7,128 American girls and 40 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Doris’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on D (4) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Doris’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Doris apart
Doris Kearns Goodwin took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995, at 52.
South Side High School and Colby College shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1977, at 34.
Doris Kearns Goodwin was married Richard N. Goodwin.
Wikipedia's editors put Doris Kearns Goodwin under American women political scientists, Educators from New York (state) and Baseball historians.
Victor Wembanyama (2004) and Rayssa Leal (2008) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- South Side High School, Colby College and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1995), American History Book Prize (2006) and Lincoln Prize (2006)
- Working from
- 1977
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 18
What the chart says
Doris, according to the stars
Core essence
Doris is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Doris 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, Doris is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Doris needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Doris wants to be loved
Doris wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Doris you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Doris creates
How Doris makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Doris creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Doris is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Doris 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Doris has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Doris's birth date. Working below.
Where Doris sits
Six lines
Doris’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Doris Kearns Goodwin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Algol stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening, 89.0° above the horizon in Perseus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.
The Moon was at new moon, 4% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.
How unusual Doris's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · Five planets retrograde
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 SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 4, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Doris Kearns Goodwin was born on January 4, 1943, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Doris Kearns Goodwin's birth date, January 4, 1943, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Doris’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Doris Kearns Goodwin's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Doris’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 24° Sagittarius 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
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.4° orb
Doris’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Doris’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
Doris’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.5° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn4.1° to 5.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto4.1° to 5.5° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.1° to 6.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Doris’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 28°56′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 27°57′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 15°04′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 12°23′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mars 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.0°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.7°
- Chiron square Uranus 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.7°
Doris’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Doris’s chart
Kite · Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Grand trine · Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.9°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.0°
More people like Doris
Other writers
- Pat Barker1943
- Joe Mayhew1942
- Stephen Greenblatt1943
- Ron Powers1941
- Bob Woodward1943
- C. J. Cherryh1942
Born in United States
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- Calvin KleinAmerican fashion designer
- Joseph SchwantnerAmerican composer (born 1943)
- Jerry JonesAmerican businessman and owner of the Dallas Cowboys
- James GoodnightAmerican businessman
- Joe Biden46th President of the United States
More charts like Doris’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Aristotle OnassisGreek shipping magnate
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oKenyan writer
- Robert WilsonAmerican astronomer
Born in Horse years
- Sam WaltonAmerican businessman
- Chris HipkinsPrime Minister of New Zealand from January to November 2023
- Vanessa-MaeBritish violinist
Also born on January 4
- Victor Wembanyama2004
- Rayssa Leal2008
- Coco Jones1998
- D'Arcy Carden1980
- Tina Knowles1954
- Charles Melton1991
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Ayn RandRussian-born American writer and public philosopher
- Muhammad YunusBangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh
- Saul BellowCanadian-American writer
Other Capricorn Horse charts
- Greta ThunbergSwedish climate protection activist
- Rowan AtkinsonEnglish actor, comedian, and screenwriter
- Denzel WashingtonAmerican actor
- Kevin CostnerAmerican actor
Other Tidal Pioneers
- Polina Nioly PushkarevaRussian influencer, model and actress
- JxdnAmerican singer, songwriter and TikTok personality
- Zhang XiaolongChinese computer programmer, known for creating WeChat and Foxmail
- Patrick George RyanAmerican businessman
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Kyle HamiltonAmerican football safety
- Vita VeaAmerican football player
- Folorunso FatukasiAmerican football player (born 1995)
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Doris’s cards
Computed from January 4, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Doris’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q442008 (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 Fuzheado, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Quick answers about Doris Kearns Goodwin’s chart
- How old is Doris Kearns Goodwin?
- Doris Kearns Goodwin is 83 years old, born January 4, 1943 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Doris Kearns Goodwin?
- Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Capricorn: born January 4, 1943, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Doris Kearns Goodwin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 4, 1943 birth.
- What is Doris Kearns Goodwin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Doris Kearns Goodwin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Doris Kearns Goodwin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Doris Kearns Goodwin's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
