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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Lawrence’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Lawrence sits

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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

Dedicate a star to Lawrence Wright

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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Lawrence’s chart

Lawrence’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Lawrence Wright, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Lawrence’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.1° to 2.9° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto2.9° to 3.8° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° orb

    Lawrence’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto5.3° orb

    Lawrence’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn6.1° to 6.2° orb

    Lawrence’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Lawrence carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.

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

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Lawrence is read as someone who shows care by providing.

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

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Lawrence attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

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

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

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Lawrence needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 20°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Lawrence is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.2°
  • Chiron square Venus 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.4°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mars 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°).

Lawrence’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. 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

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Lawrence is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 Lawrence’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.

  • 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 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 semi-square Uranus 0.1°
  • Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.5°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 2.0°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Lawrence Wright, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Lawrence’s cards

Every card is computed from August 2, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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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

No birth time is on public record for Lawrence Wright, 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

Lawrence’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q353893, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
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 time was Lawrence Wright 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 is Lawrence Wright's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the August 2, 1947 birth date.
What is Lawrence Wright's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 2, 1947 birth date.
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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