George S. Kaufman
George S. Kaufman (born November 16, 1889, Pittsburgh, United States; died 1961), was an American writer. Kaufman is best remembered for Of Thee I Sing. Kaufman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Director.
George S. Kaufman’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with George
George S. Kaufman’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name George in the U.S.?
#126
US rank in 2025
~1,497,260
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 4,430 American boys and 42 girls named George in 1889: 4th among boys and 375th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
The record
What sets George apart
José Saramago (1922) and Chinua Achebe (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George does not do surface. The core of George is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from George is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How George wants to be loved
George 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 George even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. George creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: George 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. George is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
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. George fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from George's birth date. Working below.
Where George sits
Six lines
George’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 George S. Kaufman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh that night
Computed for 40.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mirach stood nearest the zenith over Pittsburgh at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.7° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Of the 98 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Pittsburgh sits at 40.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 38% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.
How unusual George's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets
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 →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
George S. Kaufman's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 16, 1889, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Ox
Earth OxReliable to the bone.
George S. Kaufman was born on November 16, 1889, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
George S. Kaufman's birth date, November 16, 1889, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George S. Kaufman's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Fire signs in this chart.
- George S. Kaufman combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° 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
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonsquareNeptune0.0° to 7.0° orb
George’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.0° to 0.4° orb
George’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.1° to 7.1° orb
George’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn0.5° to 1.7° orb
stableMarstrinePluto2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto2.8° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.2° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.6° to 4.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 22°07′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 25°49′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 28°54′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 22°45′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 12°29′ (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 Mercury 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 1.5°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.8°
- Chiron square Uranus 2.2°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.5°
George’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
Configurations in George’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.7°
More people like George
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- Philippe SternSwiss entrepreneur
- Marc Ladreit de LacharrièreFrench businessman
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Born in Ox years
- Eva AmurriAmerican actress
- Danny AmendolaAmerican football player (born 1985)
- Maude ApatowAmerican actress (born 1997)
Also born on November 16
- José Saramago1922
- Chinua Achebe1930
- Lisa Bonet1967
- Pete Davidson1993
- Mohammad Rasoulof1972
- Brandi Glanville1972
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Odafe OwehAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Jayden ReedAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Drew StevensAmerican football player
Other Scorpio Ox charts
- Taylor FritzAmerican tennis player (born 1997)
- Albert HallAmerican actor
- Claude RainsBritish actor
- Burt LancasterAmerican actor
Other Radiant Scholars
- Vanessa ParadisFrench singer, model and actress
- Sam NeillNew Zealand actor
- Anna Nicole SmithAmerican actress and television personality
- Fan BingbingChinese actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Willie GayAmerican football linebacker
- Marvin MimsAmerican football player (born 2002)
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George’s cards
Computed from November 16, 1889. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q163662 (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 The Theatre Magazine Company, photograph by Vandamm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by George S. Kaufman.
Quick answers about George S. Kaufman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George S. Kaufman?
- George S. Kaufman was a Scorpio: born November 16, 1889, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was George S. Kaufman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 16, 1889 birth.
- What was George S. Kaufman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was George S. Kaufman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George S. Kaufman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George S. Kaufman's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
