Walter A. McDougall
Walter A. McDougall (born December 3, 1946, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 79, is an American historian. McDougall's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History and Athenaeum Literary Award.
Walter A. McDougall’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Walter
Walter A. McDougall’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Walter in the U.S.?
#252
US rank in 2025
~634,804
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1946, Walter came 30th among boys and 1,336th among girls, carried by 8,668 American boys and 43 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Walter’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on W (5) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Walter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
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 1946, 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 Walter apart
Walter A. McDougall took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1986, at 40.
University of Chicago and Amherst College shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Walter A. McDougall: Historians of technology, Foreign Policy Research Institute and University of Pennsylvania historians.
Julianne Moore (1960) and Ozzy Osbourne (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Chicago and Amherst College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1986) and Athenaeum Literary Award (2008)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Walter, according to the stars
Core essence
Walter is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Walter is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Walter wants to be loved
Walter 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 Walter even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Walter creates
How Walter makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Walter 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: Walter is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Walter is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Walter has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Walter's birth date. Working below.
Where Walter sits
Six lines
Walter’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Walter A. McDougall
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Almach stood nearest the zenith over Washington at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.1° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.9°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 −51.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 72% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.
How unusual Walter's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No Earth planets · Venus 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Walter A. McDougall's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 3, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Walter A. McDougall was born on December 3, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Walter A. McDougall's birth date, December 3, 1946, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Walter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Walter A. McDougall's date-only chart is Mars opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Walter A. McDougall combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Walter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Pisces or 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
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Walter’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.1° to 1.1° orb
Walter’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquarePluto1.5° to 1.7° orb
Walter’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn1.7° to 2.7° orb
stableSuntrinePluto1.8° to 2.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.5° to 2.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableVenussquarePluto4.2° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.6° orb
stableMarstrinePluto6.0° to 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Walter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 3°07′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 12°29′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 4°58′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 18°38′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Pluto 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.5°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.1°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.4°
Walter’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto9 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 6 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Walter’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.
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.6°
More people like Walter
Other historians
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- Eric Foner1943
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Walter’s cards
Computed from December 3, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4017869 (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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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Walter A. McDougall.
Quick answers about Walter A. McDougall’s chart
- How old is Walter A. McDougall?
- Walter A. McDougall is 79 years old, born December 3, 1946 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Walter A. McDougall?
- Walter A. McDougall is a Sagittarius: born December 3, 1946, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Walter A. McDougall's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 3, 1946 birth.
- What is Walter A. McDougall's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Walter A. McDougall's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Walter A. McDougall's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Walter A. McDougall's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
