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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Damon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Damon sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

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. 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 Damon’s chart

Damon’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Damon Galgut, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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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.

  • 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

    Damon’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareSaturn2.0° to 2.9° orb

    Damon’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter2.0° to 2.8° orb

    Damon’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarssquareUranus3.0° to 3.7° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.3° to 4.2° orb

    Damon’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.7° to 4.3° orb

    Damon’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars4.0° to 4.6° orb

    Damon’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.1° to 4.7° orb

    Damon’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Damon absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

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

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

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Damon is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

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

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Damon is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

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

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

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Damon is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 22°56′ (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. Damon 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.

  • 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°

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°).

Damon’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. 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

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Damon is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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 Damon’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, 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 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.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Damon Galgut, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Damon’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Lovers

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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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

No birth time is on public record for Damon Galgut, 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

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

The same Damon Galgut at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit.
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 time was Damon Galgut 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 is Damon Galgut's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the November 12, 1963 birth date.
What is Damon Galgut's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 12, 1963 birth date.
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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