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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Edward’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Edward Lawrie Tatum in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Edward Lawrie Tatum, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Edward’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenustrineJupiter2.1° to 2.9° orb
Edward’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.2° orb
Edward’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquareUranus3.1° orb
Edward’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunoppositionPluto3.2° to 4.3° orb
Edward’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.9° to 5.0° orb
Edward’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineSaturn5.3° to 6.3° orb
Edward’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.1° to 6.7° orb
Edward’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn6.8° to 7.3° orb
Edward’s drive and discipline act as one.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAquarius 24°07′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Edward making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAquarius 5°59′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Edward is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosLibra 10°14′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Edward is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 12°49′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Edward is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 19°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Edward that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Edward’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Edward is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Edward’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Edward Lawrie Tatum, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Edward’s cards
Every card is computed from December 14, 1909, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Edward Lawrie Tatum, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q237499, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster.
- 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 time was Edward Lawrie Tatum born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Edward Lawrie Tatum's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the December 14, 1909 birth date.
- What was Edward Lawrie Tatum's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 14, 1909 birth date.
- 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.
