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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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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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

In 1956, 4,669 American boys and 24 girls were registered Tony — 85th among boys and 2,318th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Tony’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

5

Soul Urge · freedom

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on T (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Tony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Tony apart

Will Ferrell (1967) and Margaret Court (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Tony sits

Six lines

Tony’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Tony

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tony

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Tony

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Tony

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Tony

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Tony

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Tony’s birth-night reference starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 76° 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, 22.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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 Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 76.0° up.

Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Manhattan 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 Manhattan on any night.

Sun 6° below the horizon, Moon up and 72% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Tony's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

Grand trine

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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Tony Kushner at a glance

Cancer Sun

Hard 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.

What Cancer means →

Fire Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Tony Kushner was born on July 16, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Tony Kushner's birth date, July 16, 1956, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Tony’s chart

Tony’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 0.6° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.9° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.3° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 3° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.6° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.8° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4° orbSun in Cancer · 24°04′☉24°Moon in Scorpio · 15°19′☽15°Mercury in Cancer · 20°16′☿20°Venus in Gemini · 22°39′♀22°Mars in Pisces · 19°38′♂19°Jupiter in Virgo · 1°40′♃1°Saturn in Scorpio · 26°19′ · retrograde♄℞26°Uranus in Leo · 2°04′♅2°Neptune in Libra · 27°39′♆27°Pluto in Leo · 27°11′♇27°

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

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableVenussquareMars2.9° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune3.1° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune3.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSuntrineMars4.1° to 4.8° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.4° to 4.6° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.4° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 9°53′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 18°24′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 2°20′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 24°11′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 24°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Tony’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    disposes Mars; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury

Configurations in Tony’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°

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Tony’s cards

Computed from July 16, 1956. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Strategist

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Tony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q704433 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Tony Kushner's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Tony Kushner's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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