Walter Duranty
Walter Duranty (born May 25, 1884, Liverpool, United Kingdom; died 1957), was an American journalist. Duranty's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence and O. Henry Award.
Walter Duranty’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Wood Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Walter
Walter Duranty’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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
In 1884, 1,902 American boys and 7 girls were registered Walter — 13th among boys and 927th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Walter’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on W (5) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Lilac · Botanical green
The record
What sets Walter apart
The O. Henry Award came in 1928, when Walter Duranty was 44.
Study took Walter Duranty to Emmanuel College.
On Wikipedia the categories read Survivors of railway accidents or incidents, Holodomor deniers and Controversies based on The New York Times coverage.
Ian McKellen (1939) and Cillian Murphy (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Emmanuel College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence (1932) and O. Henry Award (1928)
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 16
What the chart says
Walter, according to the stars
Core essence
Walter is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Walter needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Walter processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Walter needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Walter wants to be loved
Walter wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Walter gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Walter creates
How Walter makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Walter creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Walter is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Walter 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Walter fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 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.
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 Duranty
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Liverpool 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 Liverpool that night
Computed for 53.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Liverpool at 9 p.m. that evening: Mizar of Ursa Major, within 3.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.
Liverpool sits at 53.4°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −36.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Liverpool on any night.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon down and 2% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Orlando, Orange County in 1957.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Walter Duranty: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Walter's chart is
Chart pattern score
50 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree
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
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Walter Duranty's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 25, 1884, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyWit is the tool.
Walter Duranty was born on May 25, 1884, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Walter Duranty's birth date, May 25, 1884, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Walter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Walter Duranty's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Walter Duranty combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Walter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 20° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.1° to 7.7° orb
Walter’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.1° to 0.3° orb
Walter’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.3° to 0.6° orb
Walter’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareMars0.9° to 1.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.1° to 2.4° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune2.7° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune3.3° to 4.0° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.3° to 3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableMarssquarePluto5.7° to 6.2° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Walter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 3°58′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 11°04′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 8°11′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 4°02′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 29°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Sun 0.6°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.2°
Walter’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Walter’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Saturn, PlutoThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 2.0°
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Other Evergreen Healers
- Woodrow Wilsonpresident of the United States from 1913 to 1921
- Amber BensonAmerican actress
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Walter’s cards
Computed from May 25, 1884. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1286904 (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 Funk & Wagnalls Company; Francis Whiting Halsey; no phoographer credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Walter Duranty at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Walter Duranty.
Quick answers about Walter Duranty’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Walter Duranty?
- Walter Duranty was a Gemini: born May 25, 1884, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Walter Duranty's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 25, 1884 birth.
- What was Walter Duranty's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Walter Duranty's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Walter Duranty's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Walter Duranty's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
