What was Nicholas Dante's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 22, 1941 birth.

What was Nicholas Dante's Life Path number?

Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.

What was Nicholas Dante's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Leo at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.

Where was Nicholas Dante's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was Nicholas Dante's dominant planet?

Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Nicholas Dante

Nicholas Dante (born November 22, 1941, Manhattan, United States; died 1991), was a Dancer, writer. Dante's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Nicholas Dante’s zodiac sign was Scorpio or Sagittarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

Your match with Nicholas

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

#112

US rank in 2025

~929,199

Americans share it since 1880

1995

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1941, Nicholas came 146th among boys and 4,295th among girls, carried by 1,212 American boys and 6 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Nicholas’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · direction and scale

Soul Urge · solid ground

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on N (5) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

Nicholas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

—

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Nicholas apart

Nicholas Dante took the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976, at 35.

Cause of death is recorded as death from AIDS-related complications.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Nicholas Dante: AIDS-related deaths in New York (state), American LGBTQ dramatists and playwrights and Hispanic and Latino American LGBTQ people.

Scarlett Johansson (1984) and Mark Ruffalo (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1976)
Cause of death: death from AIDS-related complications
Citizenship: United States
Languages: English
Wikipedia editions: 8

What the chart says

Nicholas, according to the stars

The vibe

Underneath, Nicholas is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Nicholas needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Nicholas wants to be loved

Nicholas wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Nicholas you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Nicholas creates

How Nicholas makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Nicholas builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Nicholas is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Nicholas is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Nicholas gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Nicholas's birth date. Working below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Nicholas Dante

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

Nicholas’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 84.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 46.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Manhattan that night

Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Manhattan was Mirach, in Andromeda, 84.5° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Manhattan at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 23% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.

The name and the places

Born in: Manhattan, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1991.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Nicholas Dante: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Nicholas's chart is

Chart pattern score

30 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

2 planets at a critical degree · 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.

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Nicholas Dante at a glance

Scorpio or Sagittarius Sun

Nicholas Dante was born on a day when the Sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Metal Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Nicholas Dante was born on November 22, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Nicholas Dante's birth date, November 22, 1941, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Nicholas’s chart

The tightest major aspect in Nicholas Dante's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto.

Nicholas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Capricorn depending on the hour.

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.

Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

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

stableSunsextileNeptune0.1° to 1.1° orb
Nicholas’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb
Nicholas’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionUranus1.2° to 2.3° orb
Nicholas’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.8° to 3.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.6° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.7° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn4.8° to 5.9° orb
stableSuntrinePluto5.2° to 6.2° orb
stableMarstrinePluto6.2° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

Fire3 of 10
Earth5 of 10
Air1 of 10
Water1 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal3 of 10
Fixed4 of 10
Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

⚷ ChironLeo 14°33′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 16°28′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 9°48′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 2°21′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 28°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Chiron square Mercury 0.3°
Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.5°
Ceres conjunction Venus 0.7°
Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.7°
Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.1°
Ceres sextile Mercury 2.3°
Hygiea opposition Sun 2.3°
Chiron trine Mars 2.5°
Hygiea trine Neptune 2.9°

Nicholas’s dominant planets

1. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Nicholas’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.2°
Saturn quintile Pluto 0.9°
Mars semi-square Uranus 1.2°
Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.3°
Mercury quincunx Mars 2.2°

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Year of the Snake →

Also born on November 22

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What a Day Master is →

Famous people with Life Path 3

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Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time

Nicholas’s cards

Computed from November 22, 1941. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Nicholas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7025282 (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 Martha Swope, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Nicholas Dante at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nicholas Dante.

Quick answers about Nicholas Dante’s chart

What zodiac sign was Nicholas Dante?: Nicholas Dante was born on a day when the Sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
What was Nicholas Dante's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 22, 1941 birth.
What was Nicholas Dante's Life Path number?: Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Nicholas Dante's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Leo at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Nicholas Dante's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Nicholas Dante's dominant planet?: Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.