Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran (born October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv, Israel), aged 76, is an American composer. Ran is best known for Symphony. Ran's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Arts and Letters Award in Music and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Shulamit Ran’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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Shulamit Ran’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
Shulamit’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Shulamit, according to the stars
Core essence
Shulamit makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Shulamit is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Shulamit 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 Shulamit 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 Shulamit wants to be loved
Shulamit wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Shulamit and watch them fall for you again.
How Shulamit creates
How Shulamit 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. Shulamit 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: Shulamit 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Shulamit is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Shulamit 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 Shulamit's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Shulamit Ran at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Shulamit Ran's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 21, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Shulamit Ran was born on October 21, 1949, which falls in a Earth 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 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Shulamit Ran's birth date, October 21, 1949, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Shulamit’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Shulamit Ran's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Shulamit Ran combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Shulamit’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Shulamit Ran, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Libra 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.
stableSunsextileMars0.7° to 1.1° orb
Shulamit’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.4° to 3.4° orb
Shulamit’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileNeptune2.4° to 3.5° orb
Shulamit’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° orb
Shulamit’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.7° to 2.8° orb
Shulamit’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.2° to 4.1° orb
Shulamit’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercurysquareUranus4.1° to 5.4° orb
Shulamit’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrinePluto5.0° to 6.1° orb
Shulamit’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.1° to 6.2° orb
Shulamit’s mind and imagination act as one.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Shulamit’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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 7°24′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Shulamit building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresLibra 24°00′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Shulamit is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosAquarius 3°06′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Shulamit is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaLibra 27°22′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Shulamit is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 20°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Shulamit carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.9°
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°).
Shulamit’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. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Shulamit 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 Shulamit’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 in Libra · 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.
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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Shulamit Ran, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Shulamit
Benjamin Netanyahu was born on October 21, 1949 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Shulamit’s cards
Every card is computed from October 21, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Shulamit Ran, 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
Shulamit’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1889606, 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.
The same Shulamit Ran at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
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Quick answers about Shulamit Ran’s chart
- How old is Shulamit Ran?
- Shulamit Ran is 76 years old, born October 21, 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- What zodiac sign is Shulamit Ran?
- Shulamit Ran is a Libra: born October 21, 1949, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- What is Shulamit Ran's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 21, 1949 birth.
- What time was Shulamit Ran 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 Shulamit Ran's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the October 21, 1949 birth date.
- What is Shulamit Ran's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 21, 1949 birth date.
- Where is Shulamit Ran's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Shulamit Ran's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
