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Eddie Adams

Eddie Adams (born June 12, 1933, New Kensington, United States; died 2004), was an American photographer. Adams's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Photography, Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and George Polk Award.

Eddie Adams’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Eddie Adams’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#861

US rank in 2025

~227,627

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

Eddie ranked 93rd among boys and 390th among girls in 1933, the year of this birth, with 2,016 American boys and 274 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Eddie’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

2

Expression · connecting people

3

Soul Urge · being heard

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on E (5) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.

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

Eddie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1933, 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 Eddie apart

Eddie Adams took the George Polk Award in 1968, at 35.

Cause of death is recorded as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; the grave is at Greenwood Memorial Park.

Wikipedia's editors put Eddie Adams under People from New Kensington, Pennsylvania, Photography in Korea and Deaths from motor neuron disease in New York (state).

George H. W. Bush (1924) and Anne Frank (1929) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
George Polk Award (1968), Pulitzer Prize for Photography (1969) and Robert Capa Gold Medal (1977)
Cause of death
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Buried at
Greenwood Memorial Park
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
31

What the chart says

Eddie, according to the stars

Core essence

Eddie is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Eddie needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Eddie needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Eddie needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Eddie wants to be loved

Eddie wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Eddie gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Eddie creates

How Eddie makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Eddie creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Eddie is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Eddie 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Eddie channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Eddie's birth date. Working below.

Where Eddie sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Eddie

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Eddie

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

PrivateExpressive
Eddie

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Eddie

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

PracticalVisionary
Eddie

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Eddie

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

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The sky over New Kensington that night

Computed for 40.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at New Kensington at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 2.9° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New Kensington on any night.

The Moon, 70% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 2° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
New Kensington, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2004.

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

How unusual Eddie's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini Sun

Quick, curious, already elsewhere.

Eddie Adams's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 12, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Water Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Eddie Adams was born on June 12, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Eddie Adams's birth date, June 12, 1933, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Eddie’s chart

Eddie’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.3° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 1.5° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.5° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.8° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.9° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 3.4° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.7° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun in Gemini · 21°12′☉21°Moon in Aquarius · 22°41′☽22°Mercury in Cancer · 7°49′☿7°Venus in Cancer · 5°03′♀5°Mars in Virgo · 17°49′♂17°Jupiter in Virgo · 14°54′♃14°Saturn in Aquarius · 16°09′ · retrograde♄℞16°Uranus in Aries · 26°24′♅26°Neptune in Virgo · 7°34′♆7°Pluto in Cancer · 22°08′♇22°

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

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Eddie’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune1.9° to 3.1° orb

    Eddie’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.4° to 3.1° orb

    Eddie’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.7° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars3.1° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto4.1° to 4.5° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn4.6° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.9° to 6.7° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune7.3° to 7.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 0°24′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 11°27′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 11°48′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 19°27′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 15°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.6°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 2.7°

Eddie’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Eddie’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.

  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.4°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Venus quintile Mars 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.3°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 1.7°

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Eddie’s cards

Computed from June 12, 1933. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Eddie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q496027 (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 Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Eddie Adams at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Eddie Adams.

Quick answers about Eddie Adams’s chart

What zodiac sign was Eddie Adams?
Eddie Adams was a Gemini: born June 12, 1933, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Eddie Adams's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 12, 1933 birth.
What was Eddie Adams's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Eddie Adams's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Eddie Adams's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Eddie Adams's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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