Donald Margulies
Donald Margulies (born September 2, 1954, Brooklyn, United States), aged 72, is an American playwright. Margulies's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Donald Margulies’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Horse, with 
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Donald Margulies’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, 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
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Donald, according to the stars
Core essence
Donald notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Donald is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Donald feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Donald needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Donald wants to be loved
Donald wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Donald gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Donald creates
How Donald makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Donald creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Donald is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Donald is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Donald does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Donald Margulies's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 2, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Wood Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Donald Margulies was born on September 2, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Donald Margulies's birth date, September 2, 1954, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Donald’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Donald Margulies' date-only chart is Venus square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Donald Margulies combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Donald’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Donald Margulies, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Scorpio 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.
stableVenussquareUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Donald’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableVenussextilePluto0.1° to 1.1° orb
Donald’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.8° to 2.4° orb
Donald’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb
Donald’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb
Donald’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.8° to 2.1° orb
Donald’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableUranussquareNeptune1.9° orb
Donald’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.1° to 2.3° orb
Donald’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter3.4° to 4.2° orb
Donald’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunsextileSaturn4.0° to 4.8° orb
Donald’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus4.0° to 4.2° orb
Donald’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineMars6.0° to 6.6° orb
Donald’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 23°34′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Donald is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresLibra 27°55′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Donald is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosSagittarius 7°56′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Donald attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 4°29′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Donald is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 8°52′ (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. Donald 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.
- Chiron square Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros square Sun 1.7°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.8°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.1°
- Chiron square Venus 2.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.5°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 2.7°
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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Donald is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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-square Saturn 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.5°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Donald Margulies, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Donald’s cards
Every card is computed from September 2, 1954, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Donald Margulies, 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 Q531705, 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 Donald Margulies, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Donald Margulies 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 Donald Margulies’s chart
- How old is Donald Margulies?
- Donald Margulies is 72 years old, born September 2, 1954 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Donald Margulies?
- Donald Margulies is a Virgo: born September 2, 1954, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse.
- What is Donald Margulies's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 2, 1954 birth.
- What time was Donald Margulies 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 Donald Margulies's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 2, 1954 birth date.
- What is Donald Margulies's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 2, 1954 birth date.
- Where is Donald Margulies's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Donald Margulies's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
