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Edwin McMillan

Edwin McMillan (born September 18, 1907, Redondo Beach, United States; died 1991), was an American physicist. McMillan's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, National Medal of Science and Atoms for Peace Award.

Edwin McMillan’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Edwin McMillan’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Storyteller

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Edwin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet

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What the chart says

Edwin, according to the stars

Core essence

Edwin 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 Edwin is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Edwin needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Edwin needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Edwin wants to be loved

Edwin 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 Edwin and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Edwin creates

How Edwin makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Edwin creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Edwin is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Edwin is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Edwin does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Edwin's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Edwin sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Edwin

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Edwin

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Edwin

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Edwin

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Edwin

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Edwin

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Edwin McMillan

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Redondo Beach on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Edwin’s birth-night reference starAljanahwarm orange · CygnusAljanah, in Cygnus. A warm orange star, 87.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Aljanah →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 21.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Edwin McMillan's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 18, 1907, 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.

Fire Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Edwin McMillan was born on September 18, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Edwin McMillan's birth date, September 18, 1907, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Edwin’s chart

Edwin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Edwin McMillan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.1° orbSun faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.8° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.8° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.7° orbVenus faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.8° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.5° orbSun in Virgo · 24°44′☉24°Moon in Aquarius · 13°43′☽13°Mercury in Libra · 4°22′☿4°Venus in Virgo · 25°45′♀25°Mars in Capricorn · 17°07′♂17°Jupiter in Leo · 6°07′♃6°Saturn in Pisces · 23°59′ · retrograde♄℞23°Uranus in Capricorn · 8°44′♅8°Neptune in Cancer · 14°38′♆14°Pluto in Gemini · 24°48′♇24°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableSunsquarePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Edwin’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn0.2° to 1.3° orb

    Edwin’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenussquarePluto0.3° to 1.6° orb

    Edwin’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb

    Edwin’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus0.9° to 1.1° orb

    Edwin’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter1.0° to 2.5° orb

    Edwin’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn1.1° to 2.4° orb

    Edwin’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.3° to 2.7° orb

    Edwin’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus3.5° to 5.2° orb

    Edwin’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.9° orb

    Edwin’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.5° to 14.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 3.0° to 15.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Edwin’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 ℞Aquarius 13°45′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Edwin making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 0°58′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Edwin caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aries 28°55′ (moves 0.09° 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. Edwin is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 0°32′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Edwin is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 18°11′ (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 Edwin 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.

  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 1.1°

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°).

Edwin’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. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Edwin 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 Edwin’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.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Sun, Saturn, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Venus, Saturn, PlutoAn 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.

  • Venus quintile Neptune 0.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Edwin McMillan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Edwin’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Star

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The Gilded Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Edwin McMillan, 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

Edwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19009, 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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Edwin McMillan 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Edwin McMillan.

Quick answers about Edwin McMillan’s chart

What zodiac sign was Edwin McMillan?
Edwin McMillan was a Virgo: born September 18, 1907, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
What was Edwin McMillan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 18, 1907 birth.
What time was Edwin McMillan 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 was Edwin McMillan's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 18, 1907 birth date.
What was Edwin McMillan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 18, 1907 birth date.
Where was Edwin McMillan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Edwin McMillan's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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