Frank D. Gilroy
Frank D. Gilroy (born October 13, 1925, New York City, United States; died 2015), was an American playwright, screenwriter, producer, and director. Gilroy's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Frank D. Gilroy’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Frank
Frank D. Gilroy’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Frank in the U.S.?
#514
US rank in 2025
~920,589
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
The SSA recorded 15,329 American boys and 99 girls named Frank in 1925: 12th among boys and 746th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Frank’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1925, 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 Frank apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama came in 1965, when Frank D. Gilroy was 40.
Frank D. Gilroy was taught at Yale School of Drama and DeWitt Clinton High School.
Frank D. Gilroy was raised 3 children.
Wikipedia files Frank D. Gilroy under DeWitt Clinton High School alumni, Military personnel from New York (state) and Screenwriters from New York (state).
Margaret Thatcher shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Yale School of Drama, DeWitt Clinton High School and Dartmouth College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1965)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Author
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Frank, according to the stars
Core essence
Frank makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Frank 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.
How Frank wants to be loved
Frank wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Frank and watch them fall for you again.
How Frank creates
How Frank makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Frank 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: Frank is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Frank is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Frank fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Frank's birth date. Working below.
Where Frank sits
Six lines
Frank’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Scheat stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.8° above the horizon in Pegasus.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°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 New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 14% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Monroe, Orange County in 2015.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Frank D. Gilroy: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Frank's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Uranus · 3-planet stellium in Libra · T-square onto Sun
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Frank D. Gilroy's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 13, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Frank D. Gilroy was born on October 13, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Frank D. Gilroy's birth date, October 13, 1925, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Frank’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frank D. Gilroy's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Frank D. Gilroy combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Frank’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMoonsquareVenus0.0° to 5.7° orb
Frank’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Frank’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.2° to 0.3° orb
Frank’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.7° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.2° to 4.8° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.6° to 5.1° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.7° to 5.4° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter4.9° to 5.8° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 2.4° to 14.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Frank’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 26°20′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 11°23′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 11°46′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 20°53′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 2.0°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.0°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.1°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.4°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.7°
- Eros sextile Pluto 3.0°
Frank’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Frank’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Pluto, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Uranus · Mercury, Neptune, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.4°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.8°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.9°
Born the same day as Frank
Margaret Thatcher was born on October 13, 1925 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.7°N, the sky above New York City stops at −49.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Ox years
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Bill HudsonAmerican musician and actor
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Other Libra Ox charts
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Other Gilded Pioneers
- Alan Jay LernerAmerican lyricist and librettist
- Julie HarrisAmerican actress
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Famous people with Life Path 4
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Frank’s cards
Computed from October 13, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1408040 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Frank D. Gilroy’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Frank D. Gilroy?
- Frank D. Gilroy was a Libra: born October 13, 1925, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Frank D. Gilroy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 13, 1925 birth.
- What was Frank D. Gilroy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Frank D. Gilroy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Frank D. Gilroy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Frank D. Gilroy's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
