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Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis (born March 27, 1927, New York City, United States; died 2013), was an American journalist. Lewis's honours include Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, Edgar Awards and Presidential Citizens Medal.

Anthony Lewis’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Anthony Lewis’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Pioneer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#46

US rank in 2025

~1,495,156

Americans share it since 1880

1990

its peak year

Anthony ranked 43rd among boys and 1,459th among girls in 1927, the year of this birth, with 4,917 American boys and 31 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Anthony’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

3

Soul Urge · being heard

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on A (1) 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

Anthony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 3 · 6

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1927, 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 Anthony apart

Anthony Lewis took the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1963, at 36.

Training came by way of Horace Mann School and Harvard College.

On the family side, Anthony Lewis was married Margaret H. Marshall and Linda Rannells.

Wikipedia's editors put Anthony Lewis under Presidential Citizens Medal recipients, American legal writers and University of Arizona faculty.

The same date carries Mstislav Rostropovich. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Horace Mann School, Harvard College and Harvard University
Awards
Edgar Awards (1965), Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (1963) and Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (1983)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Anthony, according to the stars

Core essence

Anthony leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Anthony is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Anthony 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 Anthony needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Anthony wants to be loved

Anthony wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Anthony is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Anthony creates

How Anthony makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Anthony creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Anthony is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Anthony is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Anthony scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Anthony's birth date. Working below.

Where Anthony sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Anthony

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Anthony

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

PrivateExpressive
Anthony

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Anthony

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Anthony

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Anthony

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Anthony’s birth-night reference starAlkaphrahblue-white · Ursa MajorAlkaphrah, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 82.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaphrah →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 25.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 7.9° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

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

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 New York City on any night.

The Moon, 33% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 30° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States

The death is recorded at Cambridge, Middlesex County in 2013.

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

How unusual Anthony's chart is

Chart pattern score

32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

2 unaspected planets · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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The quick version

Aries Sun

First through every door.

Anthony Lewis's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 27, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Fire Rabbit

Soft voice, sharp read.

Anthony Lewis was born on March 27, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 4

Structure is comfort.

Anthony Lewis's birth date, March 27, 1927, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Anthony’s chart

Anthony’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.1° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.6° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.2° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.4° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 4.4° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.9° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 6.3° orbSun in Aries · 6°02′☉6°Moon in Capricorn · 21°05′☽21°Mercury in Pisces · 13°55′☿13°Venus in Taurus · 5°47′♀5°Mars in Gemini · 18°18′♂18°Jupiter in Pisces · 16°08′♃16°Saturn in Sagittarius · 7°35′ · retrograde♄℞7°Uranus in Pisces · 29°46′♅29°Neptune in Leo · 24°36′ · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Cancer · 13°47′ · retrograde♇℞13°

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

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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

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb

    Anthony’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn1.1° to 2.1° orb

    Anthony’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter2.0° to 2.3° orb

    Anthony’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.1° to 2.3° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto2.2° to 2.5° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars4.1° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus5.8° to 6.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn6.3° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.5° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.6° to 14.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.9° to 15.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 0°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 19°50′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 24°30′ (moves 0.77° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 10°18′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 2°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Neptune 0.1°
  • Ceres opposition Mars 1.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 2.7°

Anthony’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Anthony’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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.2°
  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Sun quintile Mars 0.3°
  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.8°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 1.8°

Born the same day as Anthony

Mstislav Rostropovich was born on March 27, 1927 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from New York City, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Anthony’s cards

Computed from March 27, 1927. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Pioneer

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

4 · Architect

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Anthony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q573532 (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 Rochester Institute of Technology, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Anthony Lewis’s chart

What zodiac sign was Anthony Lewis?
Anthony Lewis was an Aries: born March 27, 1927, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What was Anthony Lewis's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 27, 1927 birth.
What was Anthony Lewis's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Anthony Lewis's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Anthony Lewis's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Anthony Lewis's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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