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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

The SSA recorded 468 American boys named Edwin in 1907: 62nd for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Edwin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

6

Soul Urge · being needed

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

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1907, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Edwin apart

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry came in 1951, when Edwin McMillan was 44.

Edwin McMillan was taught at Pasadena High School and California Institute of Technology.

The record gives complications of diabetes mellitus as the cause, and Sunset View Cemetery as the resting place.

Wikipedia files Edwin McMillan under Scientists from Los Alamos, New Mexico, People from Redondo Beach, California and Academics from Pasadena, California.

Ronaldo (1976) and James Gandolfini (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Pasadena High School, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1951), National Medal of Science (1990) and Golden Plate Award (1964)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Prize in Physics
Cause of death
complications of diabetes mellitus
Buried at
Sunset View Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
63

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. Working below.

Where Edwin sits

Six lines

Edwin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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

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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Redondo Beach that night

Computed for 33.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Aljanah stood nearest the zenith over Redondo Beach at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.5° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.

Redondo Beach sits at 33.9°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 −56.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 91% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 36° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Redondo Beach, United States

The death is recorded at El Cerrito, Contra Costa County in 1991.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Edwin McMillan: 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

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Pluto

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

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.

What Virgo means →

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.

What the Goat means →

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.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Edwin’s chart

Edwin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Aquarius depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus0.9° to 1.1° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter1.0° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn1.1° to 2.4° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.3° to 2.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus3.5° to 5.2° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.9° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 13°45′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

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

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aries 28°55′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

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

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 18°11′ (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 opposition Mars 1.1°

Edwin’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Edwin’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus quintile Neptune 0.9°

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Edwin’s cards

Computed from September 18, 1907. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

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

The same Edwin McMillan at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Edwin McMillan's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Edwin McMillan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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