Manning Marable
Manning Marable (born May 13, 1950, Dayton, United States; died 2011), was an American professor of public affairs and African American studies at Columbia University and biographer. Marable's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.
Manning Marable’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Manning
Manning Marable’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Manning in the U.S.?
#5329
US rank in 2025
~1,884
Americans share it since 1881
1916
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1950, Manning came 3,551st, carried by 6 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Manning’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on M (4) and closes on G (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Manning’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
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 1950, 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 Manning apart
Manning Marable took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2012, at 62.
Jefferson Township High School and Earlham College shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as pneumonia.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Manning Marable: Critics of Afrocentrism, African-American social scientists and Black studies scholars.
The same date carries Stevie Wonder. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Jefferson Township High School, Earlham College and University of Maryland
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (2012)
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
What the chart says
Manning, according to the stars
Core essence
Manning is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Manning is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Manning runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Manning needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Manning wants to be loved
Manning wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Manning creates
How Manning makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Manning creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Manning is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Manning is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Manning 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 Manning's birth date. Working below.
Where Manning sits
Six lines
Manning’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Manning Marable
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dayton 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 Dayton that night
Computed for 39.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Dayton at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.2° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 39.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 8% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 3° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Dayton, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2011.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Manning Marable: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Manning's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Manning Marable's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 13, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Manning Marable was born on May 13, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Manning Marable's birth date, May 13, 1950, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Manning’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Manning Marable's date-only chart is Sun trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Manning Marable combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Manning’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Aries 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
stableSuntrineMars0.0° to 0.7° orb
Manning’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 6.6° orb
Manning’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoontrinePluto0.1° to 6.0° orb
Manning’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurytrineMars1.1° to 1.8° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus1.8° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.4° to 6.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune5.8° to 7.0° orb
stableSunsquarePluto6.0° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 1.7° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleVenustrinePlutoorb from 6.6° to 7.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Manning’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 20°27′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 17°09′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 21°10′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 21°07′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 13°37′ (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 trine Saturn 1.0°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.3°
- Eros square Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.1°
- Chiron square Mars 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.2°
Manning’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Manning’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.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 1.3°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.8°
Born the same day as Manning
Stevie Wonder was born on May 13, 1950 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Dayton, at 39.8°N, nothing below −50.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on May 13
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- Debby Ryan1993
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Manning’s cards
Computed from May 13, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Manning’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q977425 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Manning Marable at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Manning Marable.
Quick answers about Manning Marable’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Manning Marable?
- Manning Marable was a Taurus: born May 13, 1950, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Manning Marable's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 13, 1950 birth.
- What was Manning Marable's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Manning Marable's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Manning Marable's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Manning Marable's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
