Edwin Carlile Litsey
Edwin Carlile Litsey (born June 3, 1874, Washington County, United States; died 1970), was an American writer from Kentucky. Litsey served as poet laureate.
Edwin Carlile Litsey’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Edwin
Edwin Carlile Litsey’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Edwin in the U.S.?
#398
US rank in 2025
~248,744
Americans share it since 1880
1922
its peak year
The earliest American count for Edwin is 1880, 6 years on: 57th, 309 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edwin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on E (5) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Edwin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
The record
What sets Edwin apart
On the family side, Edwin Carlile Litsey was raised one child.
Rafael Nadal (1986) and Désiré Doué (2005) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
Edwin, according to the stars
Core essence
Edwin 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. Edwin needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Edwin wants to be loved
Edwin wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Edwin gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Edwin creates
How Edwin makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Edwin creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Edwin is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Edwin is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Edwin scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Edwin's birth date. Working below.
Where Edwin sits
Six lines
Edwin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Edwin Carlile Litsey
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington County 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 Washington County that night
Computed for 37.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Washington County at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.9° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
Washington County sits at 37.8°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 −52.3° 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 gibbous, 85% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 10° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Washington County, United States
The death is recorded at Lebanon, Marion County in 1970.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Edwin Carlile Litsey: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Edwin's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Gemini · 1 unaspected planet · 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 →The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Edwin Carlile Litsey's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 3, 1874, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Dog
Wood DogFair, direct, dependable.
Edwin Carlile Litsey was born on June 3, 1874, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Edwin Carlile Litsey's birth date, June 3, 1874, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Edwin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edwin Carlile Litsey's date-only chart is Mars square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Edwin Carlile Litsey combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Edwin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMarssquareJupiter0.0° to 0.4° orb
Edwin’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.5° orb
Edwin’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSuntrineSaturn0.9° to 1.8° orb
Edwin’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.3° to 3.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.8° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus6.7° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileNeptuneorb from 4.3° to 6.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileUranusorb from 4.9° to 5.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 7.1° to 20.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Edwin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 21°22′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 27°03′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 25°10′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 4°44′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 13°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.7°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.8°
- Eros trine Jupiter 3.0°
Edwin’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Edwin’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 2.0°
More people like Edwin
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Born in United States
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- Owen DavisAmerican dramatist
- Charles IvesAmerican modernist composer
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Fellow Gemini suns
- Louis PartridgeBritish actor (born 2003)
- David IaconoAmerican actor
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Born in Dog years
- Matt DamonAmerican actor
- Anne HathawayAmerican actress
- William, Prince of WalesHeir apparent to the throne of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth Realms
Also born on June 3
- Rafael Nadal1986
- Désiré Doué2005
- Beabadoobe2000
- Myles Smith1998
- Jill Biden1951
- Anderson Cooper1967
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- John F. BurnsBritish journalist
- Ronald A. EdmondsAmerican photographer
- William H. GoetzmannAmerican historian of philosophy
Other Gemini Dog charts
- John StonesEnglish footballer (born 1994)
- Yvon MvogoSwiss association football player
- Bradley PinionAmerican football player
- Dan FeeneyAmerican football player (born 1994)
Other Gilded Seekers
- Bradley BealAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- Ariel HukportiGerman basketball player (born 2002)
- Will RileyCanadian basketball player (born 2006)
- Maika MonroeAmerican actress (born 1993)
Famous people with Life Path 11
- David BeckhamEnglish footballer
- Dilma Rousseff36th President of Brazil (2011-2016), 3rd President of the New Development Bank (BRICS)
- Michelle ObamaLawyer and former First Lady of the United States
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Edwin’s cards
Computed from June 3, 1874. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
11 · Visionary☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15222775 (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 Photographer not named., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Edwin Carlile Litsey.
Quick answers about Edwin Carlile Litsey’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edwin Carlile Litsey?
- Edwin Carlile Litsey was a Gemini: born June 3, 1874, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Edwin Carlile Litsey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 3, 1874 birth.
- What was Edwin Carlile Litsey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edwin Carlile Litsey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Edwin Carlile Litsey's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edwin Carlile Litsey's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
