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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Tiger, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Donald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves 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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Donald L. Coburn was born on August 4, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Donald L. Coburn's birth date, August 4, 1938, 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 Donald’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Donald L. Coburn's date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Donald L. Coburn combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Donald’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Donald L. Coburn, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
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
Donald’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 5.5° orb
Donald’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareUranus5.6° to 6.5° orb
Donald’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineSaturn5.9° to 6.9° orb
Donald’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 6°21′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Donald is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 21°05′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Donald is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLibra 29°31′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Donald is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaLibra 8°14′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Donald is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 14°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Donald is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Donald’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. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune
3. ♅ Uranus3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Donald is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Donald’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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Donald L. Coburn, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Donald’s cards
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☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Donald L. Coburn, 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
Donald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1240037, 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Tiger.
- 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 time was Donald L. Coburn 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 was Donald L. Coburn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the August 4, 1938 birth date.
- What was Donald L. Coburn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 4, 1938 birth date.
- 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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