Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill (born October 16, 1888, New York City, United States; died 1953), was an American playwright. O'Neill is best remembered for All God's Chillun Got Wings and Mourning Becomes Electra. O'Neill's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.
Eugene O'Neill’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rat, with 
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Eugene O'Neill’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Eugene in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~383,340
Americans share it since 1880
1927
its peak year
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Eugene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Eugene, according to the stars
Core essence
Eugene makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Eugene is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Eugene is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Eugene needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Eugene wants to be loved
Eugene wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Eugene even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Eugene creates
How Eugene makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Eugene creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Eugene is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Eugene 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. Eugene 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 Eugene's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Eugene O'Neill's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 16, 1888, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Rat
Earth RatResourceful is an understatement.
Eugene O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Eugene O'Neill's birth date, October 16, 1888, 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 Eugene’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eugene O'Neill's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- Eugene O'Neill combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Eugene’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Eugene O'Neill, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Pisces 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.
stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 7.0° orb
Eugene’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.1° to 0.3° orb
Eugene’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.4° to 1.5° orb
Eugene’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.5° orb
Eugene’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileMars1.2° to 1.4° orb
Eugene’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.5° to 1.8° orb
Eugene’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.2° to 3.0° orb
Eugene’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.8° orb
Eugene’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.9° to 4.1° orb
Eugene’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionUranus5.3° to 6.2° orb
Eugene’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarstrineSaturn6.2° to 6.8° orb
Eugene’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Eugene’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 11°36′ (moves 0.01° 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. Eugene is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresCancer 28°55′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Eugene is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosVirgo 11°35′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Eugene is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 8°25′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Eugene carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 28°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Eugene is read as immovable on those points.
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 sextile Neptune 2.9°
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°).
Eugene’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Eugene is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Eugene’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.
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Eugene O'Neill, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Eugene’s cards
Every card is computed from October 16, 1888, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Eugene O'Neill, 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
Eugene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q93157, 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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eugene O'Neill at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Eugene O'Neill.
Quick answers about Eugene O'Neill’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Eugene O'Neill?
- Eugene O'Neill was a Libra: born October 16, 1888, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat.
- What was Eugene O'Neill's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 16, 1888 birth.
- What time was Eugene O'Neill 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 Eugene O'Neill's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the October 16, 1888 birth date.
- What was Eugene O'Neill's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 16, 1888 birth date.
- Where was Eugene O'Neill's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Eugene O'Neill's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
