Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones (born October 5, 1950, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 75, is an American novelist, short story writer. Jones is best known for The Known World. Jones's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, O. Henry Award and MacArthur Fellows Program.
Edward P. Jones’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Tiger, with 
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Edward P. Jones’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Edward, according to the stars
Core essence
Edward makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Edward is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Edward wants to be loved
Edward wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Edward gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Edward creates
How Edward makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Edward creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Edward is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Edward is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Edward has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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Where Edward sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Edward P. Jones's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 5, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Edward P. Jones was born on October 5, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Edward P. Jones's birth date, October 5, 1950, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Edward’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edward P. Jones' date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Edward P. Jones combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Edward’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Edward P. Jones, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.1° to 1.2° orb
Edward’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableSunsquareUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb
Edward’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
Edward’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.5° to 5.5° orb
Edward’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.2° to 7.3° orb
Edward’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.4° orb
Edward’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 3.4° to 15.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 4.4° to 16.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMarsorb from 4.8° to 5.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 17°20′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Edward building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 18°47′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Edward is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLibra 27°51′ (moves 0.77° 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.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 22°50′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Edward is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 29°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Edward is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.6°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 1.9°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.0°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.3°
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. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Edward is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
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.
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.2°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Edward P. Jones, 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 October 5, 1950, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Edward P. Jones, 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 Q942627, 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 Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edward P. Jones at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about Edward P. Jones’s chart
- How old is Edward P. Jones?
- Edward P. Jones is 75 years old, born October 5, 1950 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Edward P. Jones?
- Edward P. Jones is a Libra: born October 5, 1950, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger.
- What is Edward P. Jones's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 5, 1950 birth.
- What time was Edward P. Jones 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 is Edward P. Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 5, 1950 birth date.
- What is Edward P. Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 5, 1950 birth date.
- Where is Edward P. Jones's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Edward P. Jones's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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