Edward B. Lewis
Edward B. Lewis (born May 20, 1918, Wilkes-Barre, United States; died 2004), was an American biologist. Lewis's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and Wolf Prize in Medicine.
Edward B. Lewis’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Edward
Edward B. Lewis’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Edward in the U.S.?
#224
US rank in 2025
~1,308,955
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
The SSA recorded 19,489 American boys and 63 girls named Edward in 1918: 8th among boys and 904th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edward’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
11
Soul Urge · insight
33
Personality · warm authority
The name opens on E (5) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Edward’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, 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 Edward apart
The Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal came in 1983, when Edward B. Lewis was 65.
Study took Edward B. Lewis to University of Minnesota and California Institute of Technology.
Wikipedia files Edward B. Lewis under Radiation health effects researchers, People from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and Bucknell University alumni.
Cher (1946) and José Mujica (1935) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Minnesota and California Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1995), National Medal of Science (1990) and Wolf Prize in Medicine (1989)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Edward, according to the stars
Core essence
Edward is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Edward is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Edward wants to be loved
Edward wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Edward creates
How Edward makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Edward creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Edward is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Edward 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Edward 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 Edward's birth date. Working below.
Where Edward sits
Six lines
Edward’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 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 Edward B. Lewis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wilkes-Barre 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 Wilkes-Barre that night
Computed for 41.24°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Wilkes-Barre at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 12.5° of the exact zenith.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Wilkes-Barre sits at 41.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 79% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 7° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Wilkes-Barre, United States
The death is recorded at Pasadena, Los Angeles County in 2004.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Edward B. Lewis: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Edward's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all
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
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Edward B. Lewis's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 20, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Edward B. Lewis was born on May 20, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Edward B. Lewis's birth date, May 20, 1918, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Edward’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edward B. Lewis' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Edward B. Lewis combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Edward’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
Edward’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb
Edward’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineMoon0.1° to 6.4° orb
Edward’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.5° orb
stableSunsquareUranus0.7° to 1.6° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter2.5° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.5° to 5.1° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Edward’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 2°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 9°01′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 10°42′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 9°09′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 2°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.1°
- Chiron square Pluto 1.6°
- Eros square Saturn 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.8°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.3°
Edward’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Edward’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-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.9°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 2.0°
- Venus quincunx Mars 2.4°
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Also born on May 20
- Cher1946
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- Petr Čech1982
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Other Radiant Scholars
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Famous people with Life Path 8
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Edward’s cards
Computed from May 20, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q274123 (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 Edward B. Lewis at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Edward B. Lewis.
Quick answers about Edward B. Lewis’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edward B. Lewis?
- Edward B. Lewis was a Taurus: born May 20, 1918, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Edward B. Lewis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 20, 1918 birth.
- What was Edward B. Lewis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edward B. Lewis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Edward B. Lewis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edward B. Lewis's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
