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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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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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.?

#807

US rank in 2025

~562,086

Americans share it since 1880

1957

its peak year

In 1886, 35 American boys were registered Douglas — 290th 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.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

2

Personality · warm, careful

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 · 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

The record

What sets Douglas apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography came in 1935, when Douglas Southall Freeman was 49.

The schooling ran through University of Richmond and Johns Hopkins University.

Douglas Southall Freeman lies at Hollywood Cemetery.

On Wikipedia the categories read Writers from Lynchburg, Virginia, History of Richmond, Virginia and University of Richmond alumni.

Pierce Brosnan (1953) and Janet Jackson (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Richmond and Johns Hopkins University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1935) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1951)
Buried at
Hollywood Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
12

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. Working below.

Where Douglas sits

Six lines

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Intimate circleWide network
Douglas

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Douglas

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

PrivateExpressive
Douglas

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Douglas

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

PracticalVisionary
Douglas

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Douglas

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lynchburg on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Douglas’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 84.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 15.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Lynchburg that night

Computed for 37.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Lynchburg was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 84.2° up.

Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Lynchburg sits at 37.4°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 −52.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Lynchburg, United States

The death is recorded at Richmond, Virginia in 1953.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Douglas Southall Freeman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Douglas's chart is

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Taurus · T-square onto Saturn · A bowl chart

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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If you only read one paragraph

Taurus Sun

Stubborn 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.

What Taurus means →

Fire Dog

Worries 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.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Douglas Southall Freeman's birth date, May 16, 1886, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Douglas’s chart

Douglas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.4° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.4° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.8° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.4° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.2° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.6° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.4° orbSun in Taurus · 25°42′☉25°Moon in Scorpio · 8°37′☽8°Mercury in Taurus · 1°36′☿1°Venus in Aries · 10°25′♀10°Mars in Virgo · 10°39′♂10°Jupiter in Virgo · 26°07′ · retrograde♃℞26°Saturn in Cancer · 6°01′♄6°Uranus in Libra · 3°51′ · retrograde♅℞3°Neptune in Taurus · 25°17′♆25°Pluto in Gemini · 2°25′♇2°

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

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Conjunction 0°
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

  • 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

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.9° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn4.5° to 4.7° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus6.0° to 7.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto6.3° to 7.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto6.3° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto7.1° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus7.7° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 15°20′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 29°07′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 1°28′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 4°31′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 19°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Douglas’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

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

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Douglas’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, the shape it makesT-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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Douglas’s cards

Computed from May 16, 1886. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Scholar

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Douglas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q451929 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Douglas Southall Freeman at Wikipedia.

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

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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.
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 was Douglas Southall Freeman's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Douglas Southall Freeman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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