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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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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.
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~1,308,955
Americans share it since 1880
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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
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 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 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.
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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.
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Edward Witten in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Edward Witten, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Gemini or Cancer 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.
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
Edward’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.4° to 3.7° orb
Edward’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileSaturn3.6° to 4.1° orb
Edward’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
Edward’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranussquareNeptune4.9° orb
Edward’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrinePluto6.5° to 6.6° orb
Edward’s growth flows straight into their depths.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 26°49′ (moves 0.01° 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.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 11°16′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Edward is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAries 21°04′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Edward is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 16°53′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Edward needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Edward guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 opposition Mercury 0.0°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.2°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.4°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 2.0°
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. ☿ 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
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.
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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Edward Witten, 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 August 26, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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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
No birth time is on public record for Edward Witten, 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 Q201513, 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 Ojan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edward Witten at Wikipedia, ias.edu 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit.
- 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 time was Edward Witten 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 Witten's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 26, 1951 birth date.
- What is Edward Witten's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 26, 1951 birth date.
- 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.
