What zodiac sign was Abe Burrows?

Abe Burrows was a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1910, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.

What was Abe Burrows's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1910 birth.

What was Abe Burrows's Life Path number?

Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.

What was Abe Burrows's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.

Where was Abe Burrows's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was Abe Burrows's dominant planet?

Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Abe Burrows

Abe Burrows (born December 18, 1910, New York City, United States; died 1985), was an American dramatist and playwright. Burrows's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.

Abe Burrows’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

Your match with Abe

Abe Burrows’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Explorer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Abe in the U.S.?

#2207

US rank in 2025

~9,694

Americans share it since 1880

1917

its peak year

In 1910, 74 American boys were registered Abe — 282nd on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Abe’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · depth and research

Soul Urge · being needed

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on A (1) and closes on E (5).

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

Abe’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia

Frost white · Rose-gold · 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 1910, 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 Abe apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama came in 1962, when Abe Burrows was 52.

Abe Burrows was taught at New Utrecht High School and New York University.

Cause of death is recorded as Alzheimer's disease.

The family line: raised one child.

On Wikipedia the categories read Comedians from Brooklyn, New Utrecht High School alumni and Broadway theatre directors.

Steven Spielberg (1946) and Brad Pitt (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at: New Utrecht High School and New York University
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1962), Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (1962) and Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (1962)
Cause of death: Alzheimer's disease
Citizenship: United States
Languages: English
Wikipedia editions: 10

What the chart says

Abe, according to the stars

Core essence

Abe is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Abe 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 Abe wants to be loved

Abe 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 Abe you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Abe creates

How Abe 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. Abe 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: Abe 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Abe is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Abe runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Abe's birth date. Working below.

Where Abe sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network

Abe

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous

Abe

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive

Abe

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Abe

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary

Abe

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Abe

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Abe Burrows

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

Abe’s birth-night reference starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 87.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 64.4° 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 New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Algol stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.9° above the horizon in Perseus.

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

New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 90% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.

The name and the places

Born in: New York City, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1985.

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

How unusual Abe's chart is

Chart pattern score

52 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Mars · T-square onto Saturn · 1 planet 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.

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Abe Burrows at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Blunt, cheerful, gone by morning.

Abe Burrows's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 18, 1910, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Metal Dog

Loyal past the point of sense.

Abe Burrows was born on December 18, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Abe Burrows's birth date, December 18, 1910, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Abe’s chart

The tightest major aspect in Abe Burrows' date-only chart is Sun opposition Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
Abe Burrows combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.

Abe’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 4° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.

Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

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

stableSunoppositionPluto0.5° to 1.5° orb
Abe’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.7° to 2.0° orb
Abe’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.8° orb
Abe’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.4° to 4.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.7° to 5.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.2° to 5.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune5.6° to 7.0° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.2° to 6.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn7.3° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

Fire2 of 10
Earth3 of 10
Air1 of 10
Water4 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal6 of 10
Fixed2 of 10
Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

⚷ ChironAquarius 28°39′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 10°12′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 3°53′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 22°25′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Chiron square Mars 0.1°
Chiron sextile Saturn 1.2°
Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.2°
Hygiea trine Neptune 1.6°
Chiron trine Pluto 1.7°
Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.7°
Chiron sextile Venus 2.6°
Chiron sextile Sun 2.7°

Abe’s dominant planets

1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Abe’s chart

Yod onto Mars · Saturn, Pluto, MarsTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

Mercury semi-square Mars 0.8°
Mars quincunx Saturn 1.1°
Mars quincunx Pluto 1.8°

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The Radiant Explorer explained →

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Life Path numbers explained →

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Abe’s cards

Computed from December 18, 1910. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

Western zodiac

Chinese zodiac

Life Path

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Abe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q318138 (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.

The same Abe Burrows at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Abe Burrows.

Quick answers about Abe Burrows’s chart

What zodiac sign was Abe Burrows?: Abe Burrows was a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1910, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Abe Burrows's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1910 birth.
What was Abe Burrows's Life Path number?: Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Abe Burrows's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Abe Burrows's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Abe Burrows's dominant planet?: Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.