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Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947, Oklahoma City, United States), aged 79, is an American author, screenwriter, and staff writer (1947-). Wright is best known for The Looming Tower. Wright's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Lionel Gelber Prize.

Lawrence Wright’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Lawrence Wright’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Lawrence in the U.S.?

#520

US rank in 2025

~463,357

Americans share it since 1880

1952

its peak year

In 1947, 9,582 American boys and 23 girls were registered Lawrence — 32nd among boys and 2,069th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Lawrence’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

2

Soul Urge · closeness

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on L (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Lawrence’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Gold · Flame orange

The record

What sets Lawrence apart

JD Vance (1984) and Isabel Allende (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Lawrence, according to the stars

Core essence

Lawrence is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Lawrence is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Lawrence needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Lawrence needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Lawrence wants to be loved

Lawrence wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Lawrence openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Lawrence creates

How Lawrence makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Lawrence creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Lawrence is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Lawrence 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Lawrence scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Lawrence's birth date. Working below.

Where Lawrence sits

Six lines

Lawrence’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Lawrence

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Lawrence

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Lawrence

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lawrence

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Lawrence

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Lawrence

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oklahoma City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Lawrence’s birth-night reference starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 77.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alphecca →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 28.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Oklahoma City that night

Computed for 35.48°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Oklahoma City at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.8° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 80 catalog stars above the horizon.

Oklahoma City sits at 35.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Oklahoma City at all: they sit past the −54.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.

How unusual Lawrence's chart is

Chart pattern score

79 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Jupiter · A bowl chart

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.

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Lawrence Wright in 15 seconds

Leo Sun

Pride is the engine.

Lawrence Wright's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 2, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Lawrence Wright was born on August 2, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

Lawrence Wright's birth date, August 2, 1947, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Lawrence’s chart

Lawrence’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.8° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.6° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.1° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.2° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.5° orbSun fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.3° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.5° orbSun in Leo · 9°33′☉9°Moon in Aquarius · 16°31′☽16°Mercury in Cancer · 20°21′☿20°Venus in Leo · 0°49′♀0°Mars in Gemini · 22°33′♂22°Jupiter in Scorpio · 18°10′♃18°Saturn in Leo · 12°03′♄12°Uranus in Gemini · 24°40′♅24°Neptune in Libra · 8°32′♆8°Pluto in Leo · 12°52′♇12°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.5° to 1.5° orb

    Lawrence’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto0.8° to 0.9° orb

    Lawrence’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb

    Lawrence’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.8° to 2.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.1° to 2.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto2.9° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto5.3° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn6.1° to 6.2° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.

Lawrence’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 3°13′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 5°59′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 5°27′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 19°60′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 20°33′ (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 opposition Mercury 0.2°
  • Chiron square Venus 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.4°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.6°

Lawrence’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Lawrence’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, Saturn, PlutoThree 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-square Uranus 0.1°
  • Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.5°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 2.0°

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Lawrence’s cards

Computed from August 2, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

4 · Architect

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Lawrence’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q353893 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Lawrence Wright at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lawrence Wright.

Quick answers about Lawrence Wright’s chart

How old is Lawrence Wright?
Lawrence Wright is 79 years old, born August 2, 1947 in Oklahoma City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Lawrence Wright?
Lawrence Wright is a Leo: born August 2, 1947, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Lawrence Wright's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 2, 1947 birth.
What is Lawrence Wright's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Lawrence Wright's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Lawrence Wright's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Lawrence Wright's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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