Edward O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson (born June 10, 1929, Birmingham, United States; died 2021), was an American biologist, naturalist, and writer. Wilson is best remembered for Journey to the Ants, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis and The Ants. Wilson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Catalonia International Prize and National Medal of Science.
Edward O. Wilson’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Snake, with 
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Edward O. Wilson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Edward in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~1,308,955
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
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Edward’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Lilac · 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 two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Edward needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Edward wants to be loved
Edward wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Edward is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Edward creates
How Edward makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Edward creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Edward is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Edward is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Edward leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Edward fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Edward's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Edward O. Wilson at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Edward O. Wilson's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 10, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Edward O. Wilson was born on June 10, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Edward O. Wilson's birth date, June 10, 1929, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Edward’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edward O. Wilson's date-only chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Edward O. Wilson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Edward’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Edward O. Wilson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.6° to 0.8° orb
Edward’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileMars0.8° to 1.9° orb
Edward’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
Edward’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.1° to 2.6° orb
Edward’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileMars3.1° to 3.4° orb
Edward’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMarstrineUranus4.9° to 5.5° orb
Edward’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineNeptune6.0° to 6.7° orb
Edward’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussquarePluto6.3° orb
Edward’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 5.6° to 19.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 12°20′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Edward building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresTaurus 16°12′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Edward is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLeo 10°08′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Edward loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaAries 8°18′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Edward feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 2°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Edward is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Ceres square Mars 0.2°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Edward is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Edward O. Wilson, 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 June 10, 1929, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Edward O. Wilson, 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 Q211029, 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.
Portrait by Jim Harrison, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edward O. Wilson at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Edward O. Wilson.
Quick answers about Edward O. Wilson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edward O. Wilson?
- Edward O. Wilson was a Gemini: born June 10, 1929, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake.
- What was Edward O. Wilson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 10, 1929 birth.
- What time was Edward O. Wilson 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 O. Wilson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the June 10, 1929 birth date.
- What was Edward O. Wilson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 10, 1929 birth date.
- Where was Edward O. Wilson'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 was Edward O. Wilson's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
