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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Horse, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Edward’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Edward B. Lewis, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Edward’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareUranus0.7° to 1.6° orb
Edward’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.5° to 3.3° orb
Edward’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
Edward’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.5° to 5.1° orb
Edward’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenustrineSaturn5.3° to 6.3° orb
Edward’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrinePluto6.5° orb
Edward’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAries 2°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Edward may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 9°01′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Edward caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosTaurus 10°42′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Edward wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaAries 9°09′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Edward feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 2°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Edward that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Edward’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Edward is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Edward’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Edward B. Lewis, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Edward’s cards
Every card is computed from May 20, 1918, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Edward B. Lewis, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q274123, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
- 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 time was Edward B. Lewis born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Edward B. Lewis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the May 20, 1918 birth date.
- What was Edward B. Lewis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 20, 1918 birth date.
- 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.
