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Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947, East Los Angeles, United States), aged 79, is an American actor. Olmos's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award.

Edward James Olmos’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Edward James Olmos’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Seeker

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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

In 1947, 20,539 American boys and 55 girls were registered Edward — 19th among boys and 1,219th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Edward’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

6

Soul Urge · being needed

9

Personality · generous, worldly

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

11 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy

Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange

The record

What sets Edward apart

Steve Jobs (1955) and Brian Schmidt (1967) 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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Edward is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Edward runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Edward needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Edward wants to be loved

Edward wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Edward you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Edward creates

How Edward makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Edward builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

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 11 is the visionary, a master number. Edward is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Edward goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Edward

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Edward

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Edward

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Edward

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Edward

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Edward

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Edward James Olmos

Three stars chosen from the real sky above East Los Angeles 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 East Los Angeles that night

Computed for 34.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at East Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 2.5° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

East Los Angeles sits at 34.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −56.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from East Los Angeles on any night.

Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon up and 18% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Edward's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet

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.

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Edward James Olmos at a glance

Pisces Sun

Soft edges, deep pull.

Edward James Olmos's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 24, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Edward James Olmos was born on February 24, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 11

Bright signal, thin skin.

Edward James Olmos's birth date, February 24, 1947, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Edward’s chart

Edward’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Venus · Square, 0° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.7° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.3° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.4° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4.6° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.7° orbSun in Pisces · 5°23′☉5°Moon in Aries · 20°25′☽20°Mercury in Pisces · 22°28′☿22°Venus in Capricorn · 20°28′♀20°Mars in Aquarius · 23°48′♂23°Jupiter in Scorpio · 27°05′♃27°Saturn in Leo · 3°12′ · retrograde♄℞3°Uranus in Gemini · 17°45′♅17°Neptune in Libra · 10°19′ · retrograde♆℞10°Pluto in Leo · 11°40′ · retrograde♇℞11°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonsquareVenus0.0° to 6.1° orb

    Edward’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb

    Edward’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus1.7° to 2.3° orb

    Edward’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter2.9° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter4.4° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus4.5° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus5.7° to 6.5° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn6.1° to 6.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 2.1° to 15.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 3.4° to 16.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Edward’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 8°40′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 12°39′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 8°22′ (moves 0.56° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 0°24′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 2°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.5°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 2.8°
  • Eros square Sun 3.0°

Edward’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.5°
  • Sun biquintile Neptune 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.8°
  • Sun quincunx Saturn 2.2°

Edward’s family here

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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection

Edward’s cards

Computed from February 24, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q211415 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Edward James Olmos at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Edward James Olmos.

Quick answers about Edward James Olmos’s chart

How old is Edward James Olmos?
Edward James Olmos is 79 years old, born February 24, 1947 in East Los Angeles, United States.
What zodiac sign is Edward James Olmos?
Edward James Olmos is a Pisces: born February 24, 1947, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Edward James Olmos's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 24, 1947 birth.
What is Edward James Olmos's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Edward James Olmos's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Edward James Olmos's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Edward James Olmos's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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