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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Pig, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Eugene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Eugene sits
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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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Eugene Patterson in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Eugene Patterson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
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
Eugene’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
Eugene’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.7° to 5.2° orb
Eugene’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 18°38′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Eugene may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAquarius 1°59′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Eugene is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosCancer 20°08′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Eugene is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 2°54′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Eugene needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 12°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Eugene is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Eugene’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Eugene is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Eugene’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.
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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Eugene Patterson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Eugene’s cards
Every card is computed from October 15, 1923, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Eugene Patterson, 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
Eugene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5407626, 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.
The same Eugene Patterson at Wikipedia.
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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig.
- 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 time was Eugene Patterson 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 was Eugene Patterson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the October 15, 1923 birth date.
- What was Eugene Patterson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 15, 1923 birth date.
- 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.
