Edward Witten
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951, Baltimore, United States), aged 75, is an American theoretical physicist. Witten is best known for M-theory. Witten's honours include Fields medal, Albert Einstein Medal and Crafoord Prize.
Edward Witten’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Edward
Edward Witten’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
The SSA recorded 19,913 American boys and 43 girls named Edward in 1951: 23rd among boys and 1,440th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edward’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
11
Soul Urge · insight
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
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Edward apart
Mother Teresa (1910) and Antoine Lavoisier (1743) 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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Edward is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Edward wants to be loved
Edward wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Edward and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Edward is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Witten
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Baltimore 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 Baltimore that night
Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Baltimore at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.3° above the horizon in Lyra.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
Baltimore sits at 39.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 26% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.
How unusual Edward's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · 1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Uranus
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Edward Witten's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 26, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Edward Witten was born on August 26, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Edward Witten's birth date, August 26, 1951, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Edward’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edward Witten's date-only chart is Jupiter square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Edward Witten combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
Edward’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableJupitersquareUranus0.6° to 0.7° orb
Edward’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.0° to 1.8° orb
Edward’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileUranus1.9° to 2.4° orb
Edward’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.4° to 3.7° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn3.6° to 4.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.9° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.5° to 6.6° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 1.3° to 13.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Edward’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 26°49′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 11°16′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 21°04′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 16°53′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Mercury 0.0°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.2°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.4°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 2.0°
Edward’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Edward’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn 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 semi-square Neptune 0.0°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.0°
More people like Edward
Other mathematicians
- Enrico Bombieri1940
- Gerd Faltings1954
- Michael Freedman1951
- Curtis T. McMullen1958
- Grigory Margulis1946
- Vladimir Drinfeld1954
Born in United States
- Rick Sternbachscience fiction artist
- Jeffrey LurieAmerican football owner, CEO, film producer
- Oscar HijuelosAmerican novelist
- Gregory White SmithPulitzer Prize-winning American biographer
- Chris CooperAmerican actor (1951-)
- Kai BirdAmerican journalist
More charts like Edward’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Derek BartonEnglish organic chemist
- Frederick SoddyEnglish radiochemist
- Arthur Holly ComptonAmerican physicist
Born in Rabbit years
- Irwin UngerAmerican historian
- Esther Forbesnovelist
- Ellen Taaffe ZwilichAmerican composer
Also born on August 26
- Mother Teresa1910
- Antoine Lavoisier1743
- Chris Pine1980
- Macaulay Culkin1980
- Katherine Johnson1918
- Dylan O'Brien1991
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Marilynne RobinsonAmerican novelist and essayist (born 1943)
- Dean AchesonAmerican statesman and lawyer
- Edith WhartonAmerican writer and designer
Other Virgo Rabbit charts
- Duncan Haldaneprofessor of physics at Princeton University
- Oscar HijuelosAmerican novelist
- David HorseyAmerican cartoonist and columnist (born 1951)
- Carl DennisAmerican writer
Other Steadfast Explorers
- Michael BloombergAmerican businessman and politician; 108th Mayor of New York City
- Liv TylerAmerican actress
- Jon Bon JoviAmerican musician
- Sade AduBritish singer
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Jihaad CampbellAmerican football player (born 2004)
- Jedrick WillsAmerican football offensive tackle
- Reid FergusonAmerican football player from the United States
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Edward’s cards
Computed from August 26, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q201513 (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 Ojan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edward Witten at Wikipedia, ias.edu 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 Witten.
Quick answers about Edward Witten’s chart
- How old is Edward Witten?
- Edward Witten is 75 years old, born August 26, 1951 in Baltimore, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Edward Witten?
- Edward Witten is a Virgo: born August 26, 1951, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Edward Witten's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 26, 1951 birth.
- What is Edward Witten's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Edward Witten's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Edward Witten's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Edward Witten's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
