Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage (born November 2, 1964, Brooklyn, United States), aged 62, is an American playwright (born 1964). Nottage is best known for Ruined. Nottage's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellows Program.
Lynn Nottage’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Lynn
Lynn Nottage’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Lynn in the U.S.?
#2558
US rank in 2025
~234,778
Americans share it since 1880
1956
its peak year
The SSA recorded 5,675 American girls and 645 boys named Lynn in 1964: 72nd among girls and 307th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lynn’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
1
Soul Urge · independence
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on L (3) and closes on N (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
Lynn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1964, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Lynn apart
The record Lynn Nottage is measured by: Ruined.
Lynn Nottage was taught at Yale School of Drama and High School of Music & Art.
On the family side, Lynn Nottage was married Tony Gerber.
Wikipedia files Lynn Nottage under African-American opera librettists, People from Boerum Hill, Brooklyn and American opera librettists.
Lauren Vélez shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Ruined
- Educated at
- Yale School of Drama, High School of Music & Art and Saint Ann's School
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2009), Guggenheim Fellowship (2005) and MacArthur Fellows Program (2007)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Tony Award for Best Play
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 16
What the chart says
Lynn, according to the stars
Core essence
Lynn does not do surface. The core of Lynn 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 Lynn is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Lynn cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Lynn needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Lynn wants to be loved
Lynn wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Lynn gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Lynn creates
How Lynn makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Lynn creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Lynn is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Lynn is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Lynn fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Lynn's birth date. Working below.
Where Lynn sits
Six lines
Lynn’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Lynn Nottage
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.0° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon down and 2% lit at new moon.
How unusual Lynn's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Lynn Nottage's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 2, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Lynn Nottage was born on November 2, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Lynn Nottage's birth date, November 2, 1964, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Lynn’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lynn Nottage's date-only chart is Mars opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Lynn Nottage combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Lynn’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Libra 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
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb
Lynn’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter0.4° to 2.0° orb
Lynn’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
Lynn’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.3° to 4.7° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune3.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.1° to 5.3° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter5.4° to 6.0° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.8° to 5.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.5° to 7.5° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.6° to 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Lynn’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°24′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 8°58′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 8°31′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 18°15′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 2°37′ (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 square Venus 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Sun 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.5°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.9°
Lynn’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Lynn’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Saturn, JupiterAn 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 quintile Mars 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.5°
Born the same day as Lynn
Lauren Vélez was born on November 2, 1964 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.7°N, the sky above Brooklyn stops at −49.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Lynn
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Born in United States
- Samantha MarkleAmerican memoirist and mental health counselor
- Molly ShannonAmerican actress and comedian (born 1964)
- Dorinda MedleyAmerican television personality
- Melinda GatesAmerican philanthropist
- Calista FlockhartAmerican actress
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More charts like Lynn’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Mansour bin Zayed Al NahyanVice President of the United Arab Emirates
- Philippe SternSwiss entrepreneur
- Marc Ladreit de LacharrièreFrench businessman
Born in Dragon years
- Bryan AngerAmerican football player (born 1988)
- Case KeenumAmerican football player (born 1988)
- Sam HowellAmerican football player (born 2000)
Also born on November 2
- Shah Rukh Khan1965
- David Schwimmer1966
- Larry Fink1952
- Jon M. Chu1979
- Danny Amendola1985
- Karamo Brown1980
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Shamar JosephWest Indian cricketer
- Nasa HataokaJapanese golfer
- ChangbinSouth Korean rapper, dancer, singer and songwriter
Other Scorpio Dragon charts
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- Elsa HoskSwedish fashion model
- Andrew BealAmerican banker, businessman, investor, and amateur mathematician
- Galen WestonCanadian billionaire
Other Evergreen Guardians
- Hugo GonzálezSpanish basketball player (born 2006)
- Jalen JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born December 2001)
- Drake PowellAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
- De'Anthony MeltonAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Will PoulterBritish actor
- Lily-Rose DeppFrench-American actress
- Elisabeth MossBritish-American actress and producer
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Lynn’s cards
Computed from November 2, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lynn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q541910 (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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lynn Nottage at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lynn Nottage.
Quick answers about Lynn Nottage’s chart
- How old is Lynn Nottage?
- Lynn Nottage is 62 years old, born November 2, 1964 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Lynn Nottage?
- Lynn Nottage is a Scorpio: born November 2, 1964, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Lynn Nottage's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 2, 1964 birth.
- What is Lynn Nottage's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Lynn Nottage's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Lynn Nottage's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lynn Nottage's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
