Anthony R. Dolan
Anthony R. Dolan (born July 7, 1948, Norwalk, United States; died 2025), was a Speechwriter to Ronald Reagan. Dolan served as White House Director of Speechwriting. Dolan's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Anthony R. Dolan’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Anthony
Anthony R. Dolan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Anthony in the U.S.?
#46
US rank in 2025
~1,495,156
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
In 1948, 7,878 American boys and 23 girls were registered Anthony — 41st among boys and 2,012th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Anthony’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
5
Soul Urge · freedom
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Anthony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1948, 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 Anthony apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting came in 1978, when Anthony R. Dolan was 30.
Study took Anthony R. Dolan to Yale University.
On Wikipedia the categories read White House directors of speechwriting, American newspaper people and Reagan administration personnel.
Yitzhak Tshuva shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (1978)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Anthony, according to the stars
Core essence
Anthony feels the room before entering it. The core of Anthony is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Anthony, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Anthony wants to be loved
Anthony wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Anthony like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Anthony creates
How Anthony makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Anthony creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Anthony is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Anthony is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Anthony channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Anthony's birth date. Working below.
Where Anthony sits
Six lines
Anthony’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Norwalk 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 Norwalk that night
Computed for 41.09°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Norwalk at 9 p.m. that evening: Izar of Boötes, within 14.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Norwalk sits at 41.1°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 −48.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, was still up; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
How unusual Anthony's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mars · A bowl chart · 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.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Anthony R. Dolan's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 7, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Anthony R. Dolan was born on July 7, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Anthony R. Dolan's birth date, July 7, 1948, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Anthony’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Anthony R. Dolan's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, 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.
- Anthony R. Dolan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Anthony’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° 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.
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
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.3° to 0.5° orb
Anthony’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.9° to 1.1° orb
Anthony’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareMars1.1° to 2.0° orb
Anthony’s affections grind against their drive.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus1.2° to 1.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.2° to 2.7° orb
stableMarssquareUranus2.7° to 3.2° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter2.9° to 3.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.8° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.6° to 4.8° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.7° to 5.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus6.0° to 6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Anthony’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 18°31′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 1°36′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 1°28′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 25°38′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 28°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.1°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.4°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 3.0°
Anthony’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 5 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun
Configurations in Anthony’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Venus, Jupiter, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Uranus, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Jupiter, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
Born the same day as Anthony
Yitzhak Tshuva was born on July 7, 1948 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Norwalk, at 41.1°N, nothing below −48.9° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Anthony’s cards
Computed from July 7, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
9 · Healer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Anthony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4773328 (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 Series: Reagan White House Photographs, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989 Collection: White House Photographic Collection, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Anthony R. Dolan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Anthony R. Dolan?
- Anthony R. Dolan was a Cancer: born July 7, 1948, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Anthony R. Dolan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 7, 1948 birth.
- What was Anthony R. Dolan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Anthony R. Dolan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Anthony R. Dolan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Anthony R. Dolan's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
