Edwin Morgan
Edwin Morgan (born April 27, 1920, Glasgow, United Kingdom; died 2010), was a Scottish poet and translator. Morgan served as The Scots Makar. Morgan's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Cholmondeley Award and King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
Edwin Morgan’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Edwin
Edwin Morgan’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, 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
Of the names registered in 1920, Edwin came 53rd among boys and 2,380th among girls, carried by 3,734 American boys and 15 girls.
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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
7 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Edwin apart
Lizzo (1988) and Frank Bainimarama (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Edwin, according to the stars
Core essence
Edwin is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Edwin is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Edwin wants to be loved
Edwin wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Edwin creates
How Edwin makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Edwin creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Edwin is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Edwin is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Edwin fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Edwin Morgan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Glasgow 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 Glasgow that night
Computed for 55.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Glasgow was Merak, in Ursa Major, 82.7° up.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 55.9°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −34.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Glasgow on any night.
Sun 2° below the horizon, Moon up and 74% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Edwin's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Mars retrograde
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Edwin Morgan's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 27, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Edwin Morgan was born on April 27, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Edwin Morgan's birth date, April 27, 1920, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Edwin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edwin Morgan's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Edwin Morgan combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Edwin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Leo or Virgo 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
stableSaturnoppositionUranus0.0° orb
Edwin’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Edwin’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextilePluto0.4° to 1.4° orb
Edwin’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableUranustrinePluto1.0° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune1.4° to 2.4° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn1.5° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsextileUranus1.5° to 2.4° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter1.6° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.2° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.3° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto5.1° to 6.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Edwin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 8°11′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 9°47′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 26°14′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 26°07′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 21°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.8°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.8°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.0°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.3°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 2.9°
Edwin’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Edwin’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.1°
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on April 27
- Lizzo1988
- Frank Bainimarama1954
- Balendra Shah1990
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- Rande Gerber1962
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Umberto EcoItalian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
- Diana, Princess of WalesMember of the British royal family and Princess of Wales
- Brad PittAmerican actor
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- Aleksandar PavlovićGerman footballer (born 2004)
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Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
- DeVonta SmithAmerican football player (born 1998)
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Edwin’s cards
Computed from April 27, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q638783 (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 Alex Boyd, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edwin Morgan at Wikipedia, edwinmorgan.com and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Edwin Morgan.
Quick answers about Edwin Morgan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edwin Morgan?
- Edwin Morgan was a Taurus: born April 27, 1920, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Edwin Morgan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 27, 1920 birth.
- What was Edwin Morgan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edwin Morgan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Edwin Morgan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edwin Morgan's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
