Douglas Stuart
Douglas Stuart (born May 31, 1976, Glasgow, United Kingdom), aged 50, is a Scottish-American writer. Stuart is best known for Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo. Stuart's honours include Booker Prize.
Douglas Stuart’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Douglas
Douglas Stuart’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
Of the names registered in 1976, Douglas came 56th among boys and 3,117th among girls, carried by 5,224 American boys and 23 girls.
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
5
Soul Urge · freedom
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on D (4) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1976, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Douglas apart
What keeps Douglas Stuart in print: Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.
Royal College of Art shaped the training.
The same date carries Colin Farrell. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo
- Educated at
- Royal College of Art
- Awards
- Booker Prize (2020)
- Nominated for
- National Book Award for Fiction
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 23
What the chart says
Douglas, according to the stars
Core essence
Douglas is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Douglas needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Douglas is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Douglas needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Douglas wants to be loved
Douglas wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Douglas like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Douglas creates
How Douglas makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Douglas creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Douglas is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Douglas fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Douglas Stuart
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Glasgow 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 Glasgow that night
Computed for 55.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Megrez stood nearest the zenith over Glasgow at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 55.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 8% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -5° below the horizon.
How unusual Douglas's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl · 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Douglas Stuart's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 31, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Douglas Stuart was born on May 31, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Douglas Stuart's birth date, May 31, 1976, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Douglas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Douglas Stuart's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Douglas Stuart combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Douglas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Cancer depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMarssextilePluto0.2° to 0.8° orb
Douglas’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrinePluto0.6° to 1.6° orb
Douglas’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileMars1.4° to 1.8° orb
Douglas’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.1° to 3.0° orb
stableVenussextileMars2.9° to 3.5° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.1° to 4.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.5° to 5.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.7° to 5.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Douglas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 0°09′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 8°53′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 5°45′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 16°20′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 23°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Pluto 0.1°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Eros opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Eros square Mars 2.7°
Douglas’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Douglas’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Mercury quintile Mars 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.6°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
Born the same day as Douglas
Colin Farrell was born on May 31, 1976 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 55.9°N, Glasgow keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Other Tidal Explorers
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Douglas’s cards
Computed from May 31, 1976. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Douglas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q99395310 (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 librairie mollat, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Douglas Stuart at Wikipedia and douglasdstuart.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Douglas Stuart.
Quick answers about Douglas Stuart’s chart
- How old is Douglas Stuart?
- Douglas Stuart is 50 years old, born May 31, 1976 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Douglas Stuart?
- Douglas Stuart is a Gemini: born May 31, 1976, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Douglas Stuart's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 31, 1976 birth.
- What is Douglas Stuart's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Douglas Stuart's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Douglas Stuart's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Douglas Stuart's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
