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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Snake, with 
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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
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
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Edward sits
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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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Edward J. Larson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Aquarius or Pisces 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.
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
Edward’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
Edward’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb
Edward’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSunsquareJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb
Edward’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
Edward’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto2.4° to 3.5° orb
Edward’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrineNeptune2.9° orb
Edward’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
Edward’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileNeptune3.7° to 4.9° orb
Edward’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 15°20′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Edward is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresVirgo 0°15′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Edward caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosCancer 17°36′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Edward is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaCancer 22°04′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Edward is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°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 conjunction Uranus 0.4°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.0°
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. ♀ 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
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.
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Edward J. Larson, 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 September 21, 1953, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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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
No birth time is on public record for Edward J. Larson, 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 Q5343656, 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.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake.
- 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 time was Edward J. Larson 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 is Edward J. Larson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 21, 1953 birth date.
- What is Edward J. Larson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 21, 1953 birth date.
- 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.
