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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, Chinese zodiac was 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.

What Virginius’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

9

Soul Urge · meaning

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on V (4) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

Virginius’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1901, 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 Virginius apart

Virginius Dabney took the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1948, at 47.

Training came by way of Episcopal High School and University of Virginia.

The grave is at Hollywood Cemetery.

Virginius Dabney was born to Richard Heath Dabney.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Virginius Dabney: Writers from Charlottesville, Virginia, Historians from Virginia and Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Virginia) alumni.

Dmitri Mendeleev (1834) and James Dean (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Episcopal High School and University of Virginia
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (1948)
Buried at
Hollywood Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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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. Working below.

Where Virginius sits

Six lines

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

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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✦ A real star from their birth night

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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Charlottesville that night

Computed for 38.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Charlottesville at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 7.1° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 38.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Charlottesville at all: they sit past the −52.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 74% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 38° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Charlottesville, United States

The death is recorded at Richmond, Virginia in 1995.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Virginius Dabney: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Virginius's chart is

Chart pattern score

25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde

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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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.

What Aquarius means →

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.

What the Rat means →

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.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Virginius’s chart

Virginius’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Libra depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableSuntrinePluto3.0° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter3.6° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn3.8° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune4.7° to 6.4° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionMars4.8° to 6.8° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.4° to 7.6° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.8° to 7.9° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 19°22′ (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 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°

Virginius’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Virginius’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.

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

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Virginius’s cards

Computed from February 8, 1901. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

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

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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.
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 was Virginius Dabney's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Virginius Dabney's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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