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Virginius Dabney

Virginius Dabney (born February 8, 1901, Charlottesville, United States; died 1995), was an American journalist. Dabney's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Virginius Dabney’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Virginius Dabney’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

Virginius’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

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What the chart says

Virginius, according to the stars

Core essence

Virginius is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Virginius is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Virginius cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Virginius needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Virginius wants to be loved

Virginius wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Virginius you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Virginius creates

How Virginius makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Virginius creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Virginius is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Virginius is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Virginius 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 Virginius's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Virginius sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Virginius

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Virginius

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

PrivateExpressive
Virginius

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Virginius

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

PracticalVisionary
Virginius

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Virginius

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Dedicate a star to Virginius Dabney

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

Virginius’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 82.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 77.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Virginius Dabney at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

Virginius Dabney's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 8, 1901, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Metal Rat

Saw the opening before you did.

Virginius Dabney was born on February 8, 1901, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Virginius Dabney's birth date, February 8, 1901, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Virginius’s chart

Virginius’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Virginius Dabney, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.1° orbUranus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.4° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.5° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.9° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 3° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.5° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.9° orbSun in Aquarius · 19°17′☉19°Moon in Libra · 16°15′☽16°Mercury in Pisces · 2°13′☿2°Venus in Capricorn · 28°57′♀28°Mars in Virgo · 8°02′ · retrograde♂℞8°Jupiter in Capricorn · 4°09′♃4°Saturn in Capricorn · 12°03′♄12°Uranus in Sagittarius · 16°09′♅16°Neptune in Gemini · 26°39′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Gemini · 15°46′ · retrograde♇℞15°

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.

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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.

  • stableMoontrinePluto0.0° to 6.4° orb

    Virginius’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto0.4° orb

    Virginius’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter1.2° to 2.7° orb

    Virginius’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsextileUranus2.6° to 3.6° orb

    Virginius’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSuntrinePluto3.0° to 4.0° orb

    Virginius’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter3.6° to 4.1° orb

    Virginius’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn3.8° to 4.2° orb

    Virginius’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune4.7° to 6.4° orb

    Virginius’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableMercuryoppositionMars4.8° to 6.8° orb

    Virginius’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.4° to 7.6° orb

    Virginius’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.8° to 7.9° orb

    Virginius’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Virginius’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.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 2°32′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Virginius is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 7°51′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Virginius is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

  • ♡ ErosGemini 4°25′ (moves 0.78° over the day)

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

    Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Virginius is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 18°16′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Virginius is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 19°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Virginius that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

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 trine Sun 0.1°
  • Ceres opposition Mars 0.2°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 0.3°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.0°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.1°
  • Eros square Mercury 2.2°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 2.5°

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°).

Virginius’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. 1. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

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

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Virginius is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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 Virginius’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 semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
  • Mars quintile Neptune 0.6°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 2.3°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Virginius Dabney, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Virginius’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Virginius Dabney, 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

Virginius’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7934761, 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 Virginius Dabney 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Virginius Dabney.

Quick answers about Virginius Dabney’s chart

What zodiac sign was Virginius Dabney?
Virginius Dabney was an Aquarius: born February 8, 1901, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rat.
What was Virginius Dabney's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 8, 1901 birth.
What time was Virginius Dabney 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 Virginius Dabney's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the February 8, 1901 birth date.
What was Virginius Dabney's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 8, 1901 birth date.
Where was Virginius Dabney's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Virginius Dabney's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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