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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Douglas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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Douglas A. Blackmon in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Douglas A. Blackmon, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Virgo 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.
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
Douglas’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.0° to 2.9° orb
Douglas’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.0° to 3.9° orb
Douglas’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.3° orb
Douglas’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.6° to 4.0° orb
Douglas’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.2° to 4.9° orb
Douglas’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.6° to 4.7° orb
Douglas’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranussextileNeptune4.8° orb
Douglas’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.1° to 5.7° orb
Douglas’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 16°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Douglas absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 25°04′ (moves 0.14° 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. Douglas is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosVirgo 22°04′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Douglas is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaCancer 9°39′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Douglas is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 26°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Douglas leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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 trine Neptune 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Chiron opposition Sun 2.4°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.6°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.6°
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°).
Douglas’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Douglas is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Douglas’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 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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Douglas A. Blackmon, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Douglas’s cards
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☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Douglas A. Blackmon, 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
Douglas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5301175, 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.
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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
- 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 time was Douglas A. Blackmon 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 is Douglas A. Blackmon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 6, 1964 birth date.
- What is Douglas A. Blackmon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 6, 1964 birth date.
- 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.
