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Donald L. Coburn

Donald L. Coburn (born August 4, 1938, Baltimore, United States; died 2025), was an American dramatist. Coburn's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Donald L. Coburn’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Donald L. Coburn’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 Donald in the U.S.?

#690

US rank in 2025

~1,420,387

Americans share it since 1880

1934

its peak year

In 1938, 26,677 American boys and 79 girls were registered Donald — 7th among boys and 793rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Donald’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

7

Soul Urge · understanding

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Donald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1938, 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 Donald apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama came in 1978, when Donald L. Coburn was 40.

Cause of death is recorded as colorectal cancer.

On Wikipedia the categories read Deaths from colorectal cancer in Texas, Sailors from Maryland and Writers from Dallas.

Barack Obama (1961) and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1978)
Cause of death
colorectal cancer
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Donald, according to the stars

Core essence

Donald is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Donald is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

How Donald wants to be loved

Donald wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Donald and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Donald creates

How Donald 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. Donald 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: Donald is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Donald 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Donald fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Donald's birth date. Working below.

Where Donald sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Donald

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Donald

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

PrivateExpressive
Donald

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Donald

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

PracticalVisionary
Donald

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Donald

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 Donald L. Coburn

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

Donald’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 74.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 24.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Baltimore that night

Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Baltimore was Rastaban, in Draco, 74.9° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.

Baltimore sits at 39.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Baltimore at all: they sit past the −50.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon up and 69% lit at first quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Baltimore, United States

The death is recorded at Dallas, Dallas County in 2025.

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

How unusual Donald's chart is

Chart pattern score

58 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet · No Water planets

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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If you only read one paragraph

Leo Sun

Loves an audience. Earns one.

Donald L. Coburn's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 4, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Earth Tiger

Big heart, short fuse.

Donald L. Coburn was born on August 4, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 6

Home is the project.

Donald L. Coburn's birth date, August 4, 1938, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Donald’s chart

Donald’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.1° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.5° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.8° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 3.4° orbVenus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 5° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 6.1° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 6.4° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 6.8° orbSun in Leo · 11°36′☉11°Moon in Scorpio · 29°29′☽29°Mercury in Virgo · 8°23′☿8°Venus in Virgo · 24°25′♀24°Mars in Leo · 8°12′♂8°Jupiter in Aquarius · 29°22′ · retrograde♃℞29°Saturn in Aries · 18°02′ · retrograde♄℞18°Uranus in Taurus · 17°40′♅17°Neptune in Virgo · 19°28′♆19°Pluto in Leo · 0°02′♇0°

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

  • stableMoontrinePluto0.0° to 6.6° orb

    Donald’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMoonsquareJupiter0.1° to 6.2° orb

    Donald’s feelings grind against their growth.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune1.8° orb

    Donald’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars3.2° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus5.6° to 6.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn5.9° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 3.0° to 14.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 3.3° to 14.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 4.0° to 16.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 5.8° to 17.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 6°21′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 21°05′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 29°31′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 8°14′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 14°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Mars 0.0°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 0.1°
  • Eros square Pluto 0.5°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 1.6°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 2.0°

Donald’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus3 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Donald’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mars, PlutoThree 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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.2°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.7°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 1.2°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.4°

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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong

Donald’s cards

Computed from August 4, 1938. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Donald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1240037 (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 Donald L. Coburn 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 Donald L. Coburn.

Quick answers about Donald L. Coburn’s chart

What zodiac sign was Donald L. Coburn?
Donald L. Coburn was a Leo: born August 4, 1938, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Donald L. Coburn's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 4, 1938 birth.
What was Donald L. Coburn's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Donald L. Coburn's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Donald L. Coburn's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Donald L. Coburn's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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