Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson (born April 13, 1937, Lebanon, United States; died 2011), was an American playwright. Wilson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Guggenheim Fellowship and star on Playwrights' Sidewalk.
Lanford Wilson’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Lanford
Lanford Wilson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
What Lanford’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on L (3) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 6: movement against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lanford’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
The record
What sets Lanford apart
Thomas Jefferson (1743) and Samuel Beckett (1906) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Lanford, according to the stars
Core essence
Lanford leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Lanford is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Lanford creates
How Lanford makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Lanford 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: Lanford 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Lanford is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Lanford leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Lanford 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 Lanford's birth date. Working below.
Where Lanford sits
Six lines
Lanford’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Lanford Wilson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lebanon 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 Lebanon that night
Computed for 37.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Lebanon was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 85.9° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Lebanon sits at 37.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −52.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Lebanon on any night.
Sun 25° below the horizon, Moon up and 12% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Lanford's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Sun · No Air planets · Venus retrograde
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 →Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Lanford Wilson's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 13, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Lanford Wilson was born on April 13, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Lanford Wilson's birth date, April 13, 1937, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Lanford’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lanford Wilson's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air.
- Lanford Wilson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Lanford’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 6° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Lanford’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableSunsquareJupiter1.9° to 2.8° orb
Lanford’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSaturntrinePluto2.1° to 2.3° orb
Lanford’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.2° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsquarePluto2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.9° orb
stableVenussquarePluto3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter4.1° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.4° to 5.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.1° to 7.7° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn6.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 14.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Lanford’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 19°17′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 18°03′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 6°28′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 7°32′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 21°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mars 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.2°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.6°
Lanford’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Lanford’s 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 Venus · Jupiter, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Venus biquintile Mars 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°
More people like Lanford
Other writers
- Seymour Hersh1937
- Roger Zelazny1937
- Robert Campbell1937
- Gurney Norman1937
- Joanna Russ1937
- Jared Diamond1937
Born in United States
- Seymour HershAmerican investigative journalist (born 1937)
- Frank VincentAmerican actor
- Merle HaggardAmerican country music songwriter, singer, and musician
- Jack NicholsonAmerican actor and filmmaker
- Billy Dee WilliamsAmerican actor (born 1937)
- George CarlinAmerican stand-up comedian
More charts like Lanford’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Will Lee IIIAmerican football player (born 2003)
- Vederian LoweAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Warren McClendonAmerican football player
Born in Ox years
- Claude SittonAmerican journalist
- Gillian ClarkeWelsh poet (born 1937)
- Frank X WalkerAfrican-American poet from Kentucky (1961- )
Also born on April 13
- Thomas Jefferson1743
- Samuel Beckett1906
- Seamus Heaney1939
- Julius Nyerere1922
- Jonathan Brandis1976
- Ty Dolla Sign1982
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- KJ ApaNew Zealand actor
- Gwynne ShotwellAmerican business executive
- Suki WaterhouseBritish model and actress
Other Aries Ox charts
- Michael W. YoungAmerican geneticist, chronobiologist
- Carol GreiderAmerican molecular biologist
- Stephen BonsalAmerican diplomat
- Joseph LelyveldAmerican journalist
Other Gilded Strategists
- Jim MorrisonAmerican singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors
- Bradley CooperAmerican actor
- Ada LovelaceEnglish mathematician
- Gwyneth PaltrowAmerican actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Wangari Muta MaathaiKenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
- Nadine GordimerSouth African writer
- Ayn RandRussian-born American writer and public philosopher
From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Lanford’s cards
Computed from April 13, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lanford’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q503635 (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 Frederick Eberstadt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lanford Wilson 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 Lanford Wilson.
Quick answers about Lanford Wilson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Lanford Wilson?
- Lanford Wilson was an Aries: born April 13, 1937, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Lanford Wilson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 13, 1937 birth.
- What was Lanford Wilson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Lanford Wilson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Lanford Wilson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Lanford Wilson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
