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Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut (born November 12, 1963, Pretoria, South Africa), aged 62, is a South African writer (1963-). Galgut is best known for The Good Doctor. Galgut's honours include Booker Prize and The Sunday Times Fiction Prize.

Damon Galgut’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Damon Galgut’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Guardian

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#501

US rank in 2025

~69,157

Americans share it since 1880

1976

its peak year

Damon ranked 281st in 1963, the year of this birth, with 753 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Damon’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

11

Soul Urge · insight

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5).

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

Damon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus

Gold · Crimson · Soft pink

The record

What sets Damon apart

Grace Kelly (1929) and Anne Hathaway (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Damon, according to the stars

Core essence

Damon does not do surface. The core of Damon is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Damon is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Damon cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Damon needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Damon wants to be loved

Damon wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Damon and watch them fall for you again.

How Damon creates

How Damon makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Damon creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Damon is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Damon 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Damon 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 Damon's birth date. Working below.

Where Damon sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Damon

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Damon

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Damon

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Damon

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Damon

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Damon

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Damon Galgut

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

Damon’s birth-night reference starDiphdawarm orange · CetusDiphda, in Cetus. A warm orange star, 80.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Diphda →The warmest lightAldebaranwarm orange · TaurusAldebaran, in Taurus. A warm orange star, 14.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Aldebaran →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Pretoria that night

Computed for 25.75°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Pretoria was Diphda, in Cetus, 80.6° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 25.7°S not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Sun 29° below the horizon, Moon down and 11% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Damon's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

3-planet stellium in Scorpio

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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Scorpio Sun

Trusts slowly. Forgets nothing.

Damon Galgut's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 12, 1963, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Water Rabbit

Gentle, and never cornered.

Damon Galgut was born on November 12, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

Damon Galgut's birth date, November 12, 1963, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Damon’s chart

Damon’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Uranus · Square, 1° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.1° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.3° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.9° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.4° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.4° orbSun in Scorpio · 19°17′☉19°Moon in Libra · 7°01′☽7°Mercury in Scorpio · 23°40′☿23°Venus in Sagittarius · 8°33′♀8°Mars in Sagittarius · 12°51′♂12°Jupiter in Aries · 10°26′ · retrograde♃℞10°Saturn in Aquarius · 16°51′♄16°Uranus in Virgo · 9°33′♅9°Neptune in Scorpio · 15°32′♆15°Pluto in Virgo · 13°54′♇13°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableVenussquareUranus0.4° to 1.6° orb

    Damon’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableMarssquarePluto0.7° to 1.4° orb

    Damon’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.2° to 2.6° orb

    Damon’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn2.0° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter2.0° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus3.0° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.3° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.7° to 4.3° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars4.0° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.1° to 4.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 10°16′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 14°57′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 1°34′ (moves 0.47° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 8°31′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 22°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.6°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.7°
  • Ceres sextile Pluto 1.0°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.0°
  • Chiron square Venus 1.7°
  • Ceres square Saturn 1.9°
  • Chiron square Mars 2.6°

Damon’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars7.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Damon’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.

  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.9°
  • Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°

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Damon’s cards

Computed from November 12, 1963. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Damon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q510119 (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 Etonnants Voyageurs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Damon Galgut at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Damon Galgut.

Quick answers about Damon Galgut’s chart

How old is Damon Galgut?
Damon Galgut is 62 years old, born November 12, 1963 in Pretoria, South Africa.
What zodiac sign is Damon Galgut?
Damon Galgut is a Scorpio: born November 12, 1963, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Damon Galgut's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 12, 1963 birth.
What is Damon Galgut's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Damon Galgut's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Damon Galgut's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Damon Galgut's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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