Edward J. Larson
Edward J. Larson (born September 21, 1953, Mansfield, United States), aged 73, is an American lawyer, historian, author and academic. Larson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.
Edward J. Larson’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Edward
Edward J. Larson’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
Of the names registered in 1953, Edward came 23rd among boys and 1,396th among girls, carried by 18,984 American boys and 49 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edward’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
The record
What sets Edward apart
Kwame Nkrumah (1909) and Stephen King (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Edward, according to the stars
Core essence
Edward notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Edward is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Edward wants to be loved
Edward wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Edward openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Edward creates
How Edward makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Edward creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Edward is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Edward is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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 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 Edward J. Larson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mansfield 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 Mansfield that night
Computed for 40.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Mansfield at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.3° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.8°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 Mansfield at all: they sit past the −49.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.
How unusual Edward's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · 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 →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Edward J. Larson's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 21, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Edward J. Larson was born on September 21, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Edward J. Larson's birth date, September 21, 1953, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Edward’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edward J. Larson's date-only chart is Uranus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Edward J. Larson combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Edward’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableVenussextileSaturn0.1° to 1.2° orb
Edward’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquareNeptune0.2° orb
Edward’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.7° to 0.8° orb
Edward’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.8° to 2.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto2.4° to 3.5° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune2.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune3.7° to 4.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 15°20′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 0°15′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 17°36′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 22°04′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.4°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.0°
Edward’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
5 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.
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on September 21
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- Stephen King1947
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Edward’s cards
Computed from September 21, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5343656 (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 fourandsixty, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edward J. Larson at Wikipedia and law.yale.edu.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Edward J. Larson.
Quick answers about Edward J. Larson’s chart
- How old is Edward J. Larson?
- Edward J. Larson is 73 years old, born September 21, 1953 in Mansfield, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Edward J. Larson?
- Edward J. Larson is a Virgo: born September 21, 1953, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Edward J. Larson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 21, 1953 birth.
- What is Edward J. Larson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Edward J. Larson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Edward J. Larson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Edward J. Larson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Mercury, Saturn, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
