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Edith Evans

Edith Evans (born February 8, 1888, London, United Kingdom; died 1976), was a British actress. Evans's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Edith Evans’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Edith Evans’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#499

US rank in 2025

~271,705

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1888, Edith came 29th among girls and 841st among boys, carried by 1,453 American girls and 7 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Edith’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

11

Soul Urge · insight

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on E (5) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Edith’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 5

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Violet · Ivory · Gold

The record

What sets Edith apart

Dmitri Mendeleev (1834) and James Dean (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Edith, according to the stars

Core essence

Edith is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Edith is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Edith wants to be loved

Edith wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Edith you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Edith creates

How Edith 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. Edith 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: Edith is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Edith 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Edith fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Edith's birth date. Working below.

Where Edith sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Edith

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Edith

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Edith

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Edith

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

PracticalVisionary
Edith

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Edith

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 London 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 London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at London was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 82.5° up.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 36° below the horizon, Moon down and 11% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Edith's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Mercury

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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Edith Evans at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Ahead of the room by a decade.

Edith Evans's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 8, 1888, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Earth Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

Edith Evans was born on February 8, 1888, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Edith Evans's birth date, February 8, 1888, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Edith’s chart

Edith’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.4° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.6° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 1° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.8° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.1° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 4.4° orbSun in Aquarius · 19°13′☉19°Moon in Capricorn · 6°41′☽6°Mercury in Pisces · 4°02′☿4°Venus in Capricorn · 11°06′♀11°Mars in Libra · 26°51′♂26°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 3°39′♃3°Saturn in Leo · 1°48′ · retrograde♄℞1°Uranus in Libra · 17°06′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Taurus · 27°16′♆27°Pluto in Gemini · 3°03′ · retrograde♇℞3°

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

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Edith’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto0.1° to 1.8° orb

    Edith’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Edith’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus1.6° to 2.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn1.7° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn4.8° to 5.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareUranus5.4° to 6.6° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.8° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 26°40′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 23°06′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 25°12′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 3°19′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 0°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mars 0.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.5°
  • Eros trine Mars 1.7°
  • Eros square Neptune 2.1°

Edith’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

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

Configurations in Edith’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Pluto, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars biquintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 0.4°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.5°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°
  • Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.2°

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Edith’s cards

Computed from February 8, 1888. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Edith’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q236718 (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 Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Edith Evans 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 Edith Evans.

Quick answers about Edith Evans’s chart

What zodiac sign was Edith Evans?
Edith Evans was an Aquarius: born February 8, 1888, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Edith Evans's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 8, 1888 birth.
What was Edith Evans's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Edith Evans's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Edith Evans's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Edith Evans's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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