Edward Lawrie Tatum
Edward Lawrie Tatum (born December 14, 1909, Boulder, United States; died 1975), was an US genetics scientist. Tatum's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Remsen Award.
Edward Lawrie Tatum’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Edward
Edward Lawrie Tatum’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, 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
Edward ranked 9th among boys and 1,239th among girls in 1909, the year of this birth, with 2,935 American boys and 12 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
11
Personality · perceptive
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
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1909, 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 Lawrie Tatum took the Remsen Award in 1953, at 44.
University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Chicago shaped the training.
Edward Lawrie Tatum was born to Arthur Lawrie Tatum.
Wikipedia's editors put Edward Lawrie Tatum under Academics from Boulder, Colorado, Stanford University Department of Biology faculty and Scientists from Boulder, Colorado.
Dilma Rousseff (1947) and Nicolas Batum (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Chicago
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1958) and Remsen Award (1953)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Edward, according to the stars
Core essence
Edward is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Edward is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Edward is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Edward needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Edward wants to be loved
Edward wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Edward be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Edward creates
How Edward makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Edward creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Edward is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Edward is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Lawrie Tatum
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boulder 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 Boulder that night
Computed for 40.02°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Algol stood nearest the zenith over Boulder at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.1° above the horizon in Perseus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Boulder at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 49° below the horizon, Moon down and 6% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Boulder, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1975.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Edward Lawrie Tatum: 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
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Saturn
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Edward Lawrie Tatum's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 14, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Edward Lawrie Tatum was born on December 14, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Edward Lawrie Tatum's birth date, December 14, 1909, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Edward’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edward Lawrie Tatum's date-only chart is Venus sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Edward Lawrie Tatum combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Edward’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussextileMars0.2° to 0.7° orb
Edward’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
Edward’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.8° to 3.4° orb
Edward’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.9° to 2.2° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter2.1° to 2.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus3.1° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto3.2° to 4.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.1° to 6.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn6.8° to 7.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 24°07′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 5°59′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 10°14′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 12°49′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 19°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.7°
- Eros opposition Mars 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.2°
- Eros trine Venus 1.3°
- Chiron trine Pluto 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.9°
Edward’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Edward’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
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Edward’s cards
Computed from December 14, 1909. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q237499 (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.
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The same Edward Lawrie Tatum 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 Lawrie Tatum.
Quick answers about Edward Lawrie Tatum’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edward Lawrie Tatum?
- Edward Lawrie Tatum was a Sagittarius: born December 14, 1909, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Edward Lawrie Tatum's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 14, 1909 birth.
- What was Edward Lawrie Tatum's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edward Lawrie Tatum's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Edward Lawrie Tatum's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edward Lawrie Tatum's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
