Edward James
Edward James (born May 14, 1947, Solihull, United Kingdom), aged 79, is a British academic. James's honours include Hugo Award for Best Related Work and Pilgrim Award.
Edward James’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Edward
Edward James’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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
Edward ranked 19th among boys and 1,219th among girls in 1947, the year of this birth, with 20,539 American boys and 55 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edward’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
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
4 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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
Edward James took the Pilgrim Award in 2004, at 57.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Oxford.
The family line: married Farah Mendlesohn.
Wikipedia's editors put Edward James under Historians of France, Alumni of St John's College, Oxford and British medievalists.
Mark Zuckerberg (1984) and George Lucas (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Oxford
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work (2005) and Pilgrim Award (2004)
- Nominated for
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Edward creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Edward is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Edward gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 James
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Solihull 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 Solihull that night
Computed for 52.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Solihull was Merak, in Ursa Major, 82.9° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
Solihull sits at 52.4°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −37.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 36% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat -6° below the horizon.
How unusual Edward's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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 SunBuilt for the long haul.
Edward James's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 14, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Edward James was born on May 14, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Edward James's birth date, May 14, 1947, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Edward’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edward James' date-only chart is Sun opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Edward James combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Edward’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° 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
stableSunoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
Edward’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter0.6° to 2.9° orb
Edward’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.2° to 2.4° orb
Edward’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.5° to 2.0° orb
stableVenussextileUranus2.4° to 3.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 4.3° to 15.9° depending on birth time
possibleMarssextileUranusorb from 4.4° to 5.1° depending on birth time
possibleSaturnsextileNeptuneorb from 4.9° to 5.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 6.0° to 18.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 6.5° to 18.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Edward’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 4°11′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 12°49′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 22°11′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 24°49′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 11°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.8°
- Eros trine Venus 1.0°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.7°
- Eros opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 2.0°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.1°
- Eros trine Mars 2.7°
Edward’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect
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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Sun quintile Saturn 1.4°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.8°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 2.2°
Edward’s family here
One relative of Edward James also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on May 14
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Edward’s cards
Computed from May 14, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5343720 (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.
The same Edward James 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 James.
Quick answers about Edward James’s chart
- How old is Edward James?
- Edward James is 79 years old, born May 14, 1947 in Solihull, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Edward James?
- Edward James is a Taurus: born May 14, 1947, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Edward James's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 14, 1947 birth.
- What is Edward James's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Edward James's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Edward James's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Edward James's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
