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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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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.
Lanford’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Lanford sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Lanford Wilson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 6° Taurus or Gemini 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.
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
Lanford’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquarePluto2.6° to 3.6° orb
Lanford’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.9° orb
Lanford’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquarePluto3.5° to 4.1° orb
Lanford’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareJupiter4.1° to 4.8° orb
Lanford’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.4° to 5.9° orb
Lanford’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.1° to 7.7° orb
Lanford’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineSaturn6.8° to 6.9° orb
Lanford’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
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
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 19°17′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Lanford turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresAquarius 18°03′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Lanford is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosPisces 6°28′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Lanford is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaCancer 7°32′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Lanford is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 21°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Lanford is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Eros square Mars 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.2°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.6°
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°).
Lanford’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
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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Lanford 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 Lanford’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.
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 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.
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Venus biquintile Mars 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Lanford Wilson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Lanford’s cards
Every card is computed from April 13, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Lanford Wilson, 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
Lanford’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q503635, 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 Frederick Eberstadt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lanford Wilson at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox.
- 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 time was Lanford Wilson 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 Lanford Wilson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the April 13, 1937 birth date.
- What was Lanford Wilson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 13, 1937 birth date.
- 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.
