Douglas A. Blackmon
Douglas A. Blackmon (born September 6, 1964, Arkansas, United States), aged 62, is an American journalist. Blackmon is best known for Slavery by Another Name. Blackmon's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and American Book Awards.
Douglas A. Blackmon’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Douglas
Douglas A. Blackmon’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Douglas in the U.S.?
#807
US rank in 2025
~562,086
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
In 1964, 14,600 American boys and 34 girls were registered Douglas — 31st among boys and 2,046th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Douglas’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
9
Soul Urge · meaning
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on D (4) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Douglas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
The record
What sets Douglas apart
Idris Elba (1972) and Max George (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Douglas, according to the stars
Core essence
Douglas notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Douglas is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Douglas is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Douglas needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Douglas wants to be loved
Douglas wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Douglas gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Douglas creates
How Douglas 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. Douglas 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: Douglas is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Douglas is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Douglas does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Douglas's birth date. Working below.
Where Douglas sits
Six lines
Douglas’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Arkansas 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 Arkansas that night
Computed for 34.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Arkansas at 9 p.m. that evening: Sheliak of Lyra, within 2.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Arkansas sits at 34.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Arkansas at all: they sit past the −55.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.
How unusual Douglas's chart is
Chart pattern score
52 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · Only two elements · 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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Douglas A. Blackmon's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 6, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Douglas A. Blackmon was born on September 6, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Douglas A. Blackmon's birth date, September 6, 1964, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Douglas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Douglas A. Blackmon's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Douglas A. Blackmon combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Douglas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Virgo 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
stableSunconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Douglas’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.9° to 1.9° orb
Douglas’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.0° to 1.6° orb
Douglas’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter2.0° to 2.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.6° to 4.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.2° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune4.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.1° to 5.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire or Air signs.
Douglas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 16°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 25°04′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 22°04′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 9°39′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 26°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Chiron opposition Sun 2.4°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.6°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.6°
Douglas’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Douglas’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Uranus, PlutoThree 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 biquintile Saturn 0.0°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 2.2°
More people like Douglas
Other writers
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- Ted Chiang1967
- Dan Fagin1963
- Peter Thiel1967
- Simon Armitage1963
- David S. Rohde1967
Born in United States
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- Samantha MarkleAmerican memoirist and mental health counselor
- Ted SarandosAmerican businessman
- Daniel SnyderAmerican businessman (born 1964)
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Fellow Virgo suns
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Born in Dragon years
- Liam NeesonActor from Northern Ireland
- Francis CrickBritish molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
- Chester BenningtonAmerican singer, songwriter and musician
Also born on September 6
- Idris Elba1972
- Max George1988
- Pippa Middleton1983
- Shay Rudolph2005
- Asher Angel2002
- Jane Addams1860
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Angus CloudAmerican actor from California
- Kristin DavisAmerican actress (born 1965)
- Frankie Delgadomexican-American actor and producer
Other Virgo Dragon charts
- Oliver HudsonAmerican actor
- Jordan RodgersAmerican football player and sports commentator (born 1988)
- Alex O'LoughlinAustralian film and television actor
- Evan RossAmerican actor
Other Steadfast Storytellers
- Haylie DuffAmerican actress and singer
- Kat DeLunaAmerican singer
- Anthony EdwardsAmerican actor
- Joanna GarciaAmerican actress and businesswoman (born 1979)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Naomi CampbellBritish ubermodel
- Karl LagerfeldGerman fashion designer
- Kate BeckinsaleEnglish actress
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Douglas’s cards
Computed from September 6, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Douglas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5301175 (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 Miller Center, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Douglas A. Blackmon 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 Douglas A. Blackmon.
Quick answers about Douglas A. Blackmon’s chart
- How old is Douglas A. Blackmon?
- Douglas A. Blackmon is 62 years old, born September 6, 1964 in Arkansas, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Douglas A. Blackmon?
- Douglas A. Blackmon is a Virgo: born September 6, 1964, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Douglas A. Blackmon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 6, 1964 birth.
- What is Douglas A. Blackmon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Douglas A. Blackmon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Douglas A. Blackmon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Douglas A. Blackmon's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
