Edward L. Ferman
Edward L. Ferman (born March 6, 1937, New York City, United States), aged 89, is an American science fiction writer and editor. Ferman's honours include Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine and Locus Award for Best Anthology.
Edward L. Ferman’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Edward
Edward L. Ferman’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Water 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 1937, 14,930 American boys and 59 girls were registered Edward — 13th among boys and 897th 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
3
Soul Urge · being heard
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1937, 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
The Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine came in 1969, when Edward L. Ferman was 32.
On Wikipedia the categories read American speculative fiction publishers (people), The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people and Hugo Award-winning editors.
Valentina Tereshkova shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine (1969), Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2009) and Locus Award for Best Anthology (1981)
- Nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Reprint Anthology/Collection and Locus Award for Best Original Anthology
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
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.
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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Edward creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Edward is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Edward runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 L. Ferman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 10.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 34% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 35° below the horizon.
How unusual Edward's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Pisces · Grand trine · No Air planets
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 →Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Edward L. Ferman's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 6, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Edward L. Ferman was born on March 6, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Edward L. Ferman's birth date, March 6, 1937, 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 L. Ferman's date-only chart is Mars trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Air.
- Edward L. Ferman combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Edward’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMarstrinePluto1.0° to 1.3° orb
Edward’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquarePluto1.2° to 1.8° orb
Edward’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.4° to 2.4° orb
Edward’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysquareMars1.7° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.7° to 3.9° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.2° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.3° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 5.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Edward’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 17°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 5°27′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 14°57′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 1°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 17°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Neptune 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.6°
- Chiron square Sun 2.1°
Edward’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Edward’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, PlutoThree 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.
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.4°
Born the same day as Edward
Valentina Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937 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 40.7°N, the sky above New York City stops at −49.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Also born on March 6
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- George H. W. BushPresident of the United States from 1989 to 1993
- Kamala HarrisVice President of the United States from 2021 to 2025
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Other Pisces Ox charts
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- Simone BilesAmerican artistic gymnast
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Other Tidal Seekers
- Piper LaurieAmerican actress
- Didier QuelozSwiss astronomer
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Famous people with Life Path 11
- Yuito SuzukiJapanese association football player
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Edward’s cards
Computed from March 6, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
11 · Visionary♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2350792 (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 L. Ferman 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 L. Ferman.
Quick answers about Edward L. Ferman’s chart
- How old is Edward L. Ferman?
- Edward L. Ferman is 89 years old, born March 6, 1937 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Edward L. Ferman?
- Edward L. Ferman is a Pisces: born March 6, 1937, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Edward L. Ferman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 6, 1937 birth.
- What is Edward L. Ferman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Edward L. Ferman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Edward L. Ferman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Edward L. Ferman's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
