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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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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
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
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Douglas sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Douglas Stuart, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Cancer 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.
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
Douglas’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussextileMars2.9° to 3.5° orb
Douglas’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenustrinePluto3.1° to 4.4° orb
Douglas’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
Douglas’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineNeptune3.9° to 4.5° orb
Douglas’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb
Douglas’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileSaturn4.4° to 4.6° orb
Douglas’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMarssquareUranus4.5° to 5.1° orb
Douglas’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.7° to 5.0° orb
Douglas’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 0°09′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Douglas building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCancer 8°53′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Douglas is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosTaurus 5°45′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Douglas wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaCancer 16°20′ (moves 0.31° 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 LilithAries 23°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Douglas carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- 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°
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. ☿ 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
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Douglas Stuart, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Douglas
Colin Farrell was born on May 31, 1976 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Douglas’s cards
Every card is computed from May 31, 1976, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Douglas Stuart, 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 Q99395310, 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 librairie mollat, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Douglas Stuart at Wikipedia and douglasdstuart.com.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon.
- 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 time was Douglas Stuart 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 Stuart's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 31, 1976 birth date.
- What is Douglas Stuart's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 31, 1976 birth date.
- 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.
