Edmund Morris
Edmund Morris (born May 27, 1940, Nairobi, Kenya; died 2019), was an American writer. Morris is best remembered for Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan and The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Morris's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Edmund Morris’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Edmund
Edmund Morris’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Edmund in the U.S.?
#1082
US rank in 2025
~52,143
Americans share it since 1880
1923
its peak year
Edmund ranked 242nd in 1940, the year of this birth, with 498 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edmund’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
5
Soul Urge · freedom
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Edmund’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Lilac · Silver
The record
What sets Edmund apart
Rachel Carson (1907) and Donna Strickland (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Edmund, according to the stars
Core essence
Edmund 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. Edmund needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Edmund 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 Edmund 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 Edmund wants to be loved
Edmund 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. Edmund gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Edmund creates
How Edmund makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Edmund 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: Edmund is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Edmund is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Edmund leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Edmund does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Edmund's birth date. Working below.
Where Edmund sits
Six lines
Edmund’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Edmund Morris
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nairobi 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 Nairobi that night
Computed for 1.29°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Nairobi was Spica, in Virgo, 79.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Rigil Kentaurus in Centaurus, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
From 1.3°S not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon down and 62% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Edmund's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Edmund Morris's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 27, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Edmund Morris was born on May 27, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Edmund Morris's birth date, May 27, 1940, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Edmund’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edmund Morris' date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Edmund Morris combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Edmund’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° 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
stableUranustrineNeptune0.1° orb
Edmund’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquarePluto1.4° to 1.6° orb
Edmund’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.9° to 2.4° orb
Edmund’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenussextileSaturn3.3° to 3.5° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter3.6° to 4.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.3° to 5.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.9° to 6.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.2° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 3.1° to 15.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextilePlutoorb from 4.4° to 5.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Edmund’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 17°28′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 11°05′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 3°38′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 26°31′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 28°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.7°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.1°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.6°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.6°
- Eros opposition Mars 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.7°
Edmund’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Edmund’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 Mars 0.4°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
- Venus quintile Neptune 1.1°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.5°
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Edmund’s cards
Computed from May 27, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edmund’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3048117 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edmund Morris at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Edmund Morris.
Quick answers about Edmund Morris’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edmund Morris?
- Edmund Morris was a Gemini: born May 27, 1940, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Edmund Morris's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 27, 1940 birth.
- What was Edmund Morris's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edmund Morris's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Edmund Morris's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edmund Morris's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
