Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner (born July 16, 1956, Manhattan, United States), aged 70, is an American playwright and screenwriter (born 1956). Kushner's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play and Lambda Literary Award.
Tony Kushner’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Monkey, with 
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Tony Kushner’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Tony in the U.S.?
#784
US rank in 2025
~254,483
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Tony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Tony, according to the stars
Core essence
Tony feels the room before entering it. The core of Tony is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Tony, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Tony feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Tony needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Tony wants to be loved
Tony wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Tony like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Tony creates
How Tony 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. Tony 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: Tony is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Tony is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Tony slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Tony's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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Tony Kushner at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Tony Kushner's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 16, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Tony Kushner was born on July 16, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Tony Kushner's birth date, July 16, 1956, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Tony’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tony Kushner's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Tony Kushner combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Tony’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Tony Kushner, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Scorpio 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.
stableMercurytrineMars0.0° to 1.5° orb
Tony’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.5° orb
Tony’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb
Tony’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.8° to 2.8° orb
Tony’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareMars2.9° to 3.1° orb
Tony’s affections grind against their drive.
stableSunsquareNeptune3.1° to 4.1° orb
Tony’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.2° to 4.4° orb
Tony’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.9° to 4.1° orb
Tony’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineMars4.1° to 4.8° orb
Tony’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.4° to 4.6° orb
Tony’s growth and depths act as one.
stableUranussquareNeptune4.4° orb
Tony’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
Tony’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Tony’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 9°53′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Tony making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAries 18°24′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Tony looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 2°20′ (moves 0.42° 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. Tony is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 24°11′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Tony is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 24°57′ (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. Tony 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.
- Hygiea opposition Sun 0.1°
- Eros opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.7°
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°).
Tony’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. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Tony 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 Tony’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.
Grand trine · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tony Kushner, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Tony’s cards
Every card is computed from July 16, 1956, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Tony Kushner, 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
Tony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q704433, 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 Commonwealth Club from San Francisco, San Jose, United States (photo by Ed Ritger), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tony Kushner 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tony Kushner.
Quick answers about Tony Kushner’s chart
- How old is Tony Kushner?
- Tony Kushner is 70 years old, born July 16, 1956 in Manhattan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tony Kushner?
- Tony Kushner is a Cancer: born July 16, 1956, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey.
- What is Tony Kushner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 16, 1956 birth.
- What time was Tony Kushner 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 Tony Kushner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 16, 1956 birth date.
- What is Tony Kushner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 16, 1956 birth date.
- Where is Tony Kushner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tony Kushner's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
