Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein (born October 18, 1950, Brooklyn, United States; died 2006), was an American playwright. Wasserstein's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play and Drama Desk Awards.
Wendy Wasserstein’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Wendy
Wendy Wasserstein’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Wendy in the U.S.?
#1347
US rank in 2025
~263,276
Americans share it since 1918
1967
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1950, Wendy came 114th among girls and 2,764th among boys, carried by 3,030 American girls and 9 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Wendy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on W (5) 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
Wendy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1950, 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 Wendy apart
Wendy Wasserstein took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983, at 33.
Training came by way of Calhoun School and Mount Holyoke College.
Cause of death is recorded as lymphoma.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Wendy Wasserstein: Deaths from lymphoma in New York (state), Jewish American feminists and Mount Holyoke College alumni.
Zohran Mamdani (1991) and Ne-Yo (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Calhoun School, Mount Holyoke College and City College of New York
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1989), Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (1989) and Drama Desk Awards (1989)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Play
- Cause of death
- lymphoma
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
Wendy, according to the stars
Core essence
Wendy makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Wendy 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.
How Wendy wants to be loved
Wendy 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. Wendy gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Wendy creates
How Wendy makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Wendy creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Wendy is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Wendy is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Wendy has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Wendy's birth date. Working below.
Where Wendy sits
Six lines
Wendy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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.
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 Wendy Wasserstein
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.
Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 13.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 90 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 Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 60% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2006.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Wendy Wasserstein: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Wendy's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Libra
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Wendy Wasserstein's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 18, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Wendy Wasserstein was born on October 18, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Wendy Wasserstein's birth date, October 18, 1950, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Wendy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Wendy Wasserstein's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Wendy Wasserstein combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Wendy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 1.3° orb
Wendy’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileMars0.6° to 1.6° orb
Wendy’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.8° to 1.4° orb
Wendy’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextilePluto0.9° to 2.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune1.4° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussextileMars1.5° to 2.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.7° to 3.2° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.0° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.8° to 6.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.5° to 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Wendy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 18°19′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 22°53′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 7°40′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 26°53′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 1°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Chiron trine Pluto 1.3°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.9°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.1°
Wendy’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Wendy’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Venus, 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°
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Fellow Libra suns
- Ray KrocAmerican businessman
- Ne-YoAmerican R&B singer
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Born in Tiger years
- Elsa SchiaparelliItalian fashion designer and couturier
- Tommy LeeAmerican drummer
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Also born on October 18
- Zohran Mamdani1991
- Brittney Griner1990
- Zac Efron1987
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- Bristol Palin1990
- Freida Pinto1984
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
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- Eddie MurphyAmerican actor and comedian
- Pamela AndersonCanadian actress and model
Other Libra Tiger charts
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Other Radiant Visionarys
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Famous people with Life Path 7
- Selina Tusitala MarshNew Zealand poet-scholar
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Wendy’s cards
Computed from October 18, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Wendy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q450050 (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.
The same Wendy Wasserstein 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 Wendy Wasserstein.
Quick answers about Wendy Wasserstein’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Wendy Wasserstein?
- Wendy Wasserstein was a Libra: born October 18, 1950, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Wendy Wasserstein's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1950 birth.
- What was Wendy Wasserstein's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Wendy Wasserstein's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Wendy Wasserstein's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Wendy Wasserstein's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
