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Edna Purviance

Edna Purviance (born October 21, 1895, Paradise Valley, United States; died 1958), was an Actress.

Edna Purviance’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Edna Purviance’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#2463

US rank in 2025

~296,158

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1895, Edna came 14th, carried by 2,560 American girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Edna’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

6

Soul Urge · being needed

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on E (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Edna’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Blush · Forest

The record

What sets Edna apart

Alfred Nobel (1833) and Benjamin Netanyahu (1949) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Edna, according to the stars

Core essence

Edna makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Edna is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Edna is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Edna needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Edna wants to be loved

Edna wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Edna and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Edna creates

How Edna makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Edna creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Edna is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Edna is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

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. Edna fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Edna's birth date. Working below.

Where Edna sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Edna

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Edna

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

PrivateExpressive
Edna

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Edna

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

PracticalVisionary
Edna

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Edna

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 Paradise Valley 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 Paradise Valley that night

Computed for 41.49°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Paradise Valley was Scheat, in Pegasus, 75.8° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.

From 41.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Paradise Valley at all: they sit past the −48.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 44° below the horizon, Moon down and 19% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Edna's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Venus · 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Libra Sun

Beauty matters. So does balance.

Edna Purviance's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 21, 1895, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Wood Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Edna Purviance was born on October 21, 1895, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Edna Purviance's birth date, October 21, 1895, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Edna’s chart

Edna’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.1° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.3° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.4° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.4° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.3° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.5° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 3.4° orbSun in Libra · 28°11′☉28°Moon in Sagittarius · 15°32′☽15°Mercury in Scorpio · 7°10′ · retrograde☿℞7°Venus in Virgo · 20°19′♀20°Mars in Libra · 24°46′♂24°Jupiter in Leo · 7°14′♃7°Saturn in Scorpio · 8°35′♄8°Uranus in Scorpio · 18°53′♅18°Neptune in Gemini · 17°49′ · retrograde♆℞17°Pluto in Gemini · 12°30′ · retrograde♇℞12°

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

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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 0.7° orb

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.9° to 2.0° orb

    Edna’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableVenussextileUranus1.3° to 1.6° orb

    Edna’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.3° to 1.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune2.3° to 2.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars3.3° to 3.6° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.3° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 1.5° to 14.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 2.9° to 15.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 17°04′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 7°54′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 8°02′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 17°03′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 13°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Saturn 0.6°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 0.7°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 0.7°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.8°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.2°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 1.8°

Edna’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Edna’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 sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.7°
  • Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.7°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.8°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.9°

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Edna’s cards

Computed from October 21, 1895. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Edna’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235313 (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 Edna Purviance 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 Edna Purviance.

Quick answers about Edna Purviance’s chart

What zodiac sign was Edna Purviance?
Edna Purviance was a Libra: born October 21, 1895, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Edna Purviance's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 21, 1895 birth.
What was Edna Purviance's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Edna Purviance's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Edna Purviance's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Edna Purviance's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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