Douglas Southall Freeman
Douglas Southall Freeman (born May 16, 1886, Lynchburg, United States; died 1953), was an American journalist. Freeman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Guggenheim Fellowship and Loubat Prize.
Douglas Southall Freeman’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dog, with 
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Douglas Southall Freeman’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Douglas in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~562,086
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
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Douglas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Douglas, according to the stars
Core essence
Douglas 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 Douglas 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Douglas feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Douglas needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Douglas wants to be loved
Douglas 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 Douglas creates
How Douglas makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Douglas creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Douglas is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Douglas channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Douglas's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Douglas Southall Freeman's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 16, 1886, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Fire Dog
Fire DogWorries so you don't have to.
Douglas Southall Freeman was born on May 16, 1886, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Douglas Southall Freeman's birth date, May 16, 1886, 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 Southall Freeman's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Douglas Southall Freeman combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Douglas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Douglas Southall Freeman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Scorpio 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.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb
Douglas’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Douglas’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
Douglas’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrinePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
Douglas’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb
Douglas’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareSaturn3.9° to 4.9° orb
Douglas’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileSaturn4.5° to 4.7° orb
Douglas’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenusoppositionUranus6.0° to 7.1° orb
Douglas’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionPluto6.3° to 7.2° orb
Douglas’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrinePluto6.3° orb
Douglas’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto7.1° orb
Douglas’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus7.7° orb
Douglas’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 15°20′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Douglas turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 29°07′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Douglas caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAries 1°28′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Douglas is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaGemini 4°31′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Douglas needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 19°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Douglas at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.7°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 2.1°
- Eros opposition Uranus 2.4°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.5°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 3.0°
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. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Douglas is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Taurus · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.
T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Douglas Southall Freeman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Douglas’s cards
Every card is computed from May 16, 1886, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Douglas Southall Freeman, 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 Q451929, 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.
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The same Douglas Southall Freeman at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about Douglas Southall Freeman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Douglas Southall Freeman?
- Douglas Southall Freeman was a Taurus: born May 16, 1886, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dog.
- What was Douglas Southall Freeman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 16, 1886 birth.
- What time was Douglas Southall Freeman 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 was Douglas Southall Freeman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the May 16, 1886 birth date.
- What was Douglas Southall Freeman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 16, 1886 birth date.
- Where was Douglas Southall Freeman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Douglas Southall Freeman's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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