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Dumas Malone

Dumas Malone (born January 10, 1892, Coldwater, United States; died 1986), was an American historian and writer. Malone is best remembered for Jefferson and His Time. Malone's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize for History and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Dumas Malone’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Dumas Malone’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Pioneer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

What Dumas’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

7

Soul Urge · understanding

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on D (4) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Dumas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 3 · 6

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia

Crimson · Ivory · Silver

The record

What sets Dumas apart

Robert Wilson (1936) and Jemaine Clement (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Dumas, according to the stars

Core essence

Dumas is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Dumas is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Dumas processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Dumas needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Dumas wants to be loved

Dumas wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Dumas be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Dumas creates

How Dumas makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Dumas creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Dumas is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Dumas is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Dumas runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Dumas's birth date. Working below.

Where Dumas sits

Six lines

Dumas’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Dumas

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dumas

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

PrivateExpressive
Dumas

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dumas

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

PracticalVisionary
Dumas

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dumas

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Dumas Malone

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

Dumas’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 84.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 75.6° 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 Coldwater that night

Computed for 34.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Coldwater at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 5.9° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

Coldwater sits at 34.7°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 −55.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 90% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.

How unusual Dumas's chart is

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn Sun

Climbs. Then climbs again.

Dumas Malone's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 10, 1892, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Metal Rabbit

Quiet luck follows.

Dumas Malone was born on January 10, 1892, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

Dumas Malone's birth date, January 10, 1892, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Dumas’s chart

Dumas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMoon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.7° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.1° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.2° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.5° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 3.3° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.8° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 6° orbSun in Capricorn · 20°01′☉20°Moon in Gemini · 7°49′☽7°Mercury in Sagittarius · 28°36′☿28°Venus in Aquarius · 17°50′♀17°Mars in Scorpio · 21°09′♂21°Jupiter in Pisces · 15°12′♃15°Saturn in Libra · 0°09′ · retrograde♄℞0°Uranus in Scorpio · 5°40′♅5°Neptune in Gemini · 6°36′ · retrograde♆℞6°Pluto in Gemini · 7°09′ · retrograde♇℞7°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.1° to 7.5° orb

    Dumas’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Dumas’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunsextileMars0.9° to 1.3° orb

    Dumas’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn1.4° to 1.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars3.0° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter5.7° to 6.2° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune6.4° to 6.5° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.6° to 14.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.8° to 14.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 3.8° to 16.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileJupiterorb from 4.4° to 5.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Dumas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 16°58′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 8°14′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 27°09′ (moves 0.67° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 29°13′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 9°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Venus 0.9°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 0.9°
  • Ceres square Pluto 1.1°
  • Eros square Mercury 1.4°
  • Ceres square Neptune 1.6°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.8°
  • Eros opposition Saturn 3.0°

Dumas’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Dumas’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.

  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.9°
  • Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.5°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°

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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?

Dumas’s cards

Computed from January 10, 1892. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Death

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Dumas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q679164 (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 photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Dumas Malone at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dumas Malone.

Quick answers about Dumas Malone’s chart

What zodiac sign was Dumas Malone?
Dumas Malone was a Capricorn: born January 10, 1892, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Dumas Malone's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 10, 1892 birth.
What was Dumas Malone's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Dumas Malone's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Dumas Malone's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Dumas Malone's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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