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Walter Hood

Walter Hood (born January 1, 1958, Charlotte, United States), aged 68, is an American architect. Hood is best known for Black Landscapes Matter. Hood's honours include MacArthur Fellows Program and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Walter Hood’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Walter Hood’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Visionary

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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 1958, Walter came 63rd among boys and 1,871st among girls, carried by 6,316 American boys and 35 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Walter’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

9

Soul Urge · meaning

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on W (5) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 6: movement against care.

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

7 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet

The record

What sets Walter apart

Alicia Keys (1981) and Hailee Steinfeld (1996) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Walter, according to the stars

Core essence

Walter is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Walter is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Walter is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Walter needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Walter wants to be loved

Walter wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Walter be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Walter creates

How Walter makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Walter creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Walter is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Walter is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Walter

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Walter

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Walter

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Walter

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

PracticalVisionary
Walter

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Walter

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Walter Hood

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

Walter’s birth-night reference starAtikblue · PerseusAtik, in Perseus. A blue star, 84.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Atik →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 66.3° 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 Charlotte that night

Computed for 35.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Atik stood nearest the zenith over Charlotte at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.8° above the horizon in Perseus.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 35.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −54.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Charlotte on any night.

The Moon, 84% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 43° below the horizon.

How unusual Walter's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl

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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The quick version

Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Walter Hood's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 1, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Rooster

Says what everyone was thinking.

Walter Hood was born on January 1, 1958, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Walter Hood's birth date, January 1, 1958, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Walter’s chart

Walter’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.4° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.5° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.1° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 4.2° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.6° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 4.7° orbSun in Capricorn · 10°48′☉10°Moon in Taurus · 19°44′☽19°Mercury in Sagittarius · 26°19′ · retrograde☿℞26°Venus in Aquarius · 15°29′♀15°Mars in Sagittarius · 6°41′♂6°Jupiter in Libra · 28°41′♃28°Saturn in Sagittarius · 19°31′♄19°Uranus in Leo · 10°47′ · retrograde♅℞10°Neptune in Scorpio · 4°27′♆4°Pluto in Virgo · 2°08′ · retrograde♇℞2°

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

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter2.0° to 2.7° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb

    Walter’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitersextilePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb

    Walter’s growth opens doors for their depths.

  • stableMarstrineUranus3.7° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto4.2° to 4.9° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus4.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto5.5° to 6.1° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn6.5° to 7.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Walter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 14°54′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 25°50′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 24°60′ (moves 0.64° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 9°55′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 24°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron conjunction Venus 0.6°
  • Hygiea square Sun 0.9°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.9°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.9°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 2.8°

Walter’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

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

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 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.

  • Sun quincunx Uranus 0.0°
  • Sun quintile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Saturn semi-square Neptune 0.1°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°

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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time

Walter’s cards

Computed from January 1, 1958. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7965158 (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 GSAPPstudent, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Walter Hood at Wikipedia and hooddesignstudio.com.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Walter Hood.

Quick answers about Walter Hood’s chart

How old is Walter Hood?
Walter Hood is 68 years old, born January 1, 1958 in Charlotte, United States.
What zodiac sign is Walter Hood?
Walter Hood is a Capricorn: born January 1, 1958, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Walter Hood's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 1, 1958 birth.
What is Walter Hood's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Walter Hood's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Walter Hood's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Walter Hood's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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