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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Edward
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.?
#224
US rank in 2025
~1,308,955
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
Edward ranked 10th among boys and 594th among girls in 1929, the year of this birth, with 17,220 American boys and 132 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
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
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 record
What sets Edward apart
Judy Garland (1922) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. 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 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.
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 O. Wilson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Birmingham 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 Birmingham that night
Computed for 33.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Birmingham at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.1° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 33.5°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 −56.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 18% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 11° below the horizon.
How unusual Edward's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Cancer or Leo 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
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
stableSunsextileMars3.1° to 3.4° orb
stableMarstrineUranus4.9° to 5.5° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune6.0° to 6.7° orb
stableUranussquarePluto6.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 12°20′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 16°12′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 10°08′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 8°18′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 2°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Edward’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Edward’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Snake years
- David M. KennedyAmerican historian
- Leon LitwackAmerican historian
- Margaret LeechAmerican historian and novelist
Also born on June 10
- Judy Garland1922
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh1921
- Saul Bellow1915
- Sundar Pichai1972
- Kate Upton1992
- Elizabeth Hurley1965
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Rameshbabu PraggnanandhaaIndian chess player
- Anna ShcherbakovaRussian figure skater (born 2004)
- Dilano van 't HoffDutch racing driver
Other Gemini Snake charts
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- Nia SiouxAmerican actress, singer, dancer and model
- Julien AlfredSaint Lucian sprinter (born 2001)
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Other Radiant Storytellers
- Adou ThieroAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Brandon IngramAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
- Kyle KuzmaAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- Luke KornetAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Dayot UpamecanoFrench footballer (born 1998)
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From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Edward’s cards
Computed from June 10, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q211029 (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.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Edward O. Wilson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edward O. Wilson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
