Eugene Patterson
Eugene Patterson (born October 15, 1923, Valdosta, United States; died 2013), was a Journalist. Patterson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award.
Eugene Patterson’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Eugene
Eugene Patterson’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.
How common is the name Eugene in the U.S.?
#943
US rank in 2025
~383,340
Americans share it since 1880
1927
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1923, Eugene came 25th among boys and 978th among girls, carried by 7,947 American boys and 58 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eugene’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on E (5) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Eugene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1923, 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 Eugene apart
Eugene Patterson took the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1967, at 44.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Georgia.
Cause of death is recorded as cancer; the grave is at Arlington National Cemetery.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Eugene Patterson: Tampa Bay Times, People from Valdosta, Georgia and Writers from St. Petersburg, Florida.
David Trezeguet (1977) and Fela Kuti (1938) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Georgia
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (1967) and Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (1994)
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Buried at
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
What the chart says
Eugene, according to the stars
Core essence
Eugene makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Eugene is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Eugene wants to be loved
Eugene wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Eugene even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Eugene creates
How Eugene makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Eugene 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: Eugene is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Eugene 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Eugene 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 Eugene's birth date. Working below.
Where Eugene sits
Six lines
Eugene’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Valdosta 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 Valdosta that night
Computed for 30.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Valdosta was Scheat, in Pegasus, 76.8° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 30.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Valdosta at all: they sit past the −59.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 42% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 38° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Valdosta, United States
The death is recorded at Saint Petersburg, Russia in 2013.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Eugene Patterson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Eugene's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Libra · 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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Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Eugene Patterson's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 15, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Eugene Patterson was born on October 15, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Eugene Patterson's birth date, October 15, 1923, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Eugene’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eugene Patterson's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Eugene Patterson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Eugene’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextileNeptune0.9° to 1.8° orb
Eugene’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn1.1° to 2.0° orb
Eugene’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
Eugene’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrinePluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.7° to 5.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.8° to 14.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 1.5° to 14.7° depending on birth time
possibleJupitertrineUranusorb from 7.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Eugene’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 18°38′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 1°59′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 20°08′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 2°54′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 12°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Eros square Sun 1.2°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.2°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.3°
- Ceres square Venus 1.3°
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.3°
- Chiron opposition Sun 2.7°
- Eros square Saturn 2.7°
Eugene’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn
2. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Eugene’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.1°
- Venus quintile Neptune 1.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.6°
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Eugene’s cards
Computed from October 15, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eugene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5407626 (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.
The same Eugene Patterson at Wikipedia.
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Quick answers about Eugene Patterson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Eugene Patterson?
- Eugene Patterson was a Libra: born October 15, 1923, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Eugene Patterson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 15, 1923 birth.
- What was Eugene Patterson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Eugene Patterson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Eugene Patterson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Eugene Patterson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
