Edward Kleban
Edward Kleban (born April 30, 1939, The Bronx, United States; died 1987), was an American composer. Kleban's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Original Score.
Edward Kleban’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Edward
Edward Kleban’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
Of the names registered in 1939, Edward came 15th among boys and 999th among girls, carried by 14,427 American boys and 50 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edward’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on E (5) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, 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 Kleban took the Tony Award for Best Original Score in 1976, at 37.
High School of Music & Art and Columbia University shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Edward Kleban: Deaths from throat cancer in the United States, The High School of Music & Art alumni and American musical theatre composers.
The same date carries Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- High School of Music & Art and Columbia University
- Awards
- Tony Award for Best Original Score (1976) and Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1976)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song and Tony Award for Best Original Score
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Edward creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Edward is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Edward does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Kleban
Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx 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 The Bronx that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.5° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 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.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 92% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- The Bronx, United States
The death is recorded at Greenwich Village, Manhattan in 1987.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Edward Kleban: 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
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Air planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Edward Kleban's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 30, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Edward Kleban was born on April 30, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Edward Kleban's birth date, April 30, 1939, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Edward’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edward Kleban's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Edward Kleban combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Edward’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMarstrineNeptune0.0° to 0.3° orb
Edward’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.4° to 1.6° orb
Edward’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarssquareSaturn2.5° to 2.8° orb
Edward’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMarstrineUranus3.2° to 3.6° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.5° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.9° to 6.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.5° to 6.7° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.9° to 7.1° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 3.8° to 17.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Edward’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 5°58′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 14°48′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 10°48′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 12°43′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 14°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Venus 0.1°
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.8°
Edward’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Edward’s chart
Grand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.0°
Born the same day as Edward
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was born on April 30, 1939 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.8°N, the sky above The Bronx stops at −49.2° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Rabbit years
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Edward’s cards
Computed from April 30, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5343953 (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 Kleban 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 Kleban.
Quick answers about Edward Kleban’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edward Kleban?
- Edward Kleban was a Taurus: born April 30, 1939, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Edward Kleban's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 30, 1939 birth.
- What was Edward Kleban's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edward Kleban's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Edward Kleban's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edward Kleban's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
