Edward Bok
Edward Bok (born October 9, 1863, Den Helder, Netherlands; died 1930), was a Dutch-born American editor and writer. Bok's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Edward Bok’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Edward
Edward Bok’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, 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 name records start in 1880, 17 years after this birth. In that first year Edward ranked 11th, with 2,364 American boys registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edward’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on E (5) and closes on D (4).
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
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Edward apart
Edward Bok took the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1921, at 58.
The grave is at Bok Tower Gardens.
The family line: married Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist and raised 2 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Edward Bok: People from Den Helder, Curtis family and American anti-suffragists.
John Lennon (1940) and Boris Nemtsov (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1921)
- Buried at
- Bok Tower Gardens
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
What the chart says
Edward, according to the stars
Core essence
Edward makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Edward 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, Edward is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Edward needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Edward wants to be loved
Edward 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 Edward and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Edward creates
How Edward makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Edward 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: Edward is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Edward 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 Edward leads without needing to do it alone.
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. Edward fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Bok
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Den Helder 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 Den Helder that night
Computed for 52.96°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alderamin stood nearest the zenith over Den Helder at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.1° above the horizon in Cepheus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 93 catalog stars were up in all.
From 53.0°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −37.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 9% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 32° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Den Helder, Netherlands
The death is recorded at Lake Wales, Polk County in 1930.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Edward Bok: 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
68 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Libra · Five planets retrograde · Venus 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Edward Bok's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 9, 1863, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Pig
Water PigGenerous to the last coin.
Edward Bok was born on October 9, 1863, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Edward Bok's birth date, October 9, 1863, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Edward’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edward Bok's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Edward Bok combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Edward’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Virgo 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
stableSunconjunctionMars2.0° to 2.3° orb
Edward’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.2° to 5.3° orb
Edward’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.8° to 4.3° orb
Edward’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableVenussquareUranus4.2° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus4.5° to 5.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.8° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.5° to 7.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn5.8° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Edward’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°53′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 19°35′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Taurus 7°21′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 3°44′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 0°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mercury 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.7°
Edward’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Edward’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Mars, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.7°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.8°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 2.3°
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Edward’s cards
Computed from October 9, 1863. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
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
Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2913066 (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, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edward Bok 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 Bok.
Quick answers about Edward Bok’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edward Bok?
- Edward Bok was a Libra: born October 9, 1863, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Edward Bok's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 9, 1863 birth.
- What was Edward Bok's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edward Bok's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Edward Bok's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edward Bok's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
