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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Horse, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Donald
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
Of the names registered in 1954, Donald came 14th among boys and 1,225th among girls, carried by 29,279 American boys and 66 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Donald’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4).
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1954, 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
Donald Margulies took the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2000, at 46.
Training came by way of John Dewey High School and State University of New York at Purchase.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Donald Margulies: John Dewey High School alumni, American academics of English literature and Purchase College alumni.
Keir Starmer (1962) and Keanu Reeves (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- John Dewey High School and State University of New York at Purchase
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2000)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 12
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.
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.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Donald Margulies
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 3.5° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.
Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon up and 27% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Donald's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn1.8° to 2.1° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune1.9° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.4° to 4.2° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn4.0° to 4.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus4.0° to 4.2° orb
stableSuntrineMars6.0° to 6.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 23°34′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 27°55′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 7°56′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 4°29′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 8°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Donald’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Donald’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Also born on September 2
- Keir Starmer1962
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- Salma Hayek1966
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
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Other Gilded Healers
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- Tirunesh DibabaEthiopian long distance track athlete
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Donald’s cards
Computed from September 2, 1954. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Donald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q531705 (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 Donald Margulies, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Donald Margulies 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 Margulies.
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.
- 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 is Donald Margulies's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Donald Margulies's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
