Edmund S. Morgan
Edmund S. Morgan (born January 17, 1916, Minneapolis, United States; died 2013), was an American historian. Morgan's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Sterling Professor and Bancroft Prize.
Edmund S. Morgan’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Edmund
Edmund S. Morgan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, 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
Of the names registered in 1916, Edmund came 134th, carried by 1,032 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edmund’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
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
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
The record
What sets Edmund apart
Muhammad Ali (1942) and Michelle Obama (1964) 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 playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Edmund is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Edmund wants to be loved
Edmund wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Edmund be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Edmund creates
How Edmund makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Edmund creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Edmund 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Edmund 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Edmund fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 S. Morgan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis that night
Computed for 44.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Minneapolis was Capella, in Auriga, 83.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 45.0°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −45.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Minneapolis on any night.
Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon up and 96% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Edmund's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde
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 →Edmund S. Morgan in 15 seconds
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Edmund S. Morgan's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 17, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Edmund S. Morgan was born on January 17, 1916, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Edmund S. Morgan's birth date, January 17, 1916, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Edmund’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edmund S. Morgan's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Edmund S. Morgan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Edmund’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 3° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Edmund’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoontrineVenus0.1° to 6.1° orb
Edmund’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionMars0.1° to 1.5° orb
Edmund’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.0° to 1.8° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.1° to 5.3° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.4° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 6.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleJupitersquarePlutoorb from 6.8° to 7.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Edmund’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 19°11′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 15°58′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 27°07′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 23°09′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 27°11′ (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 trine Venus 0.0°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.8°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.4°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.3°
Edmund’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun
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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Mars 1.6°
More people like Edmund
Other writers
Born in United States
- Herb CaenAmerican newspaper columnist
- Arthur MillerAmerican playwright and essayist
- Keenan WynnAmerican actor
- Frank SinatraAmerican singer and actor
- Yehudi MenuhinAmerican violinist and conductor
- Clifford ShullAmerican physicist
More charts like Edmund’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- John LegendAmerican singer-songwriter
- Chad LoweAmerican actor and director
- Matt LauerAmerican journalist (1957-)
Born in Rabbit years
- Isaiah WashingtonAmerican actor (born 1963)
- Vanessa WilliamsAmerican actress, singer and former Miss America (born 1963)
- Ed WestwickEnglish actor and musician
Also born on January 17
- Muhammad Ali1942
- Michelle Obama1964
- Jim Carrey1962
- Betty White1922
- Eartha Kitt1927
- Zooey Deschanel1980
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Joseph MurrayUS surgeon
- Aaron CiechanoverIsraeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate
- George Wells BeadleAmerican geneticist
Other Capricorn Rabbit charts
- William KennedyAmerican writer and journalist
- Austin C. WehrweinAmerican reporter
- Sam RaganAmerican poet
- Francisco TrincãoPortuguese footballer (born 1999)
Other Tidal Strategists
- Hayes MacArthurAmerican stand-up comedian, actor and writer
- Shanna MoaklerAmerican actress and model
- Jeff Lewisreal estate speculator
- Tatum O'NealAmerican actress (born 1963)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Peter ThielGerman-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
- Kristin KreukCanadian actress
- Jamie DornanNorthern Irish actor
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Edmund’s cards
Computed from January 17, 1916. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edmund’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q365672 (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 Edmund S. Morgan at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Edmund S. Morgan.
Quick answers about Edmund S. Morgan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edmund S. Morgan?
- Edmund S. Morgan was a Capricorn: born January 17, 1916, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Edmund S. Morgan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 17, 1916 birth.
- What was Edmund S. Morgan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edmund S. Morgan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Edmund S. Morgan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edmund S. Morgan's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
