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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Monkey, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~634,804
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
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Walter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Walter Duranty, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 20° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
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
Walter’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.1° to 2.4° orb
Walter’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.7° orb
Walter’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileNeptune3.3° to 4.0° orb
Walter’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareNeptune3.3° to 3.7° orb
Walter’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.4° to 4.3° orb
Walter’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.6° to 4.4° orb
Walter’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMarssquarePluto5.7° to 6.2° orb
Walter’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrinePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
Walter’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 3°58′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Walter turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresCancer 11°04′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Walter is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosPisces 8°11′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Walter is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaPisces 4°02′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Walter needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 29°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Walter is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Hygiea square Sun 0.6°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.2°
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°).
Walter’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Walter is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Walter’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.
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 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.
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Walter Duranty, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Walter’s cards
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☿ Ruled by Mercury
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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
No birth time is on public record for Walter Duranty, 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
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1286904, 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.
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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey.
- 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 time was Walter Duranty 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 Walter Duranty's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the May 25, 1884 birth date.
- What was Walter Duranty's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 25, 1884 birth date.
- 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.
