Edwin O'Connor
Edwin O'Connor (born July 29, 1918, Providence, United States; died 1968), was an American journalist and fiction writer. O'Connor's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Edwin O'Connor’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Edwin
Edwin O'Connor’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, 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
In 1918, 3,487 American boys and 12 girls were registered Edwin — 55th among boys and 2,713th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edwin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
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
1 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Gold · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, 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 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction came in 1962, when Edwin O'Connor was 44.
Edwin O'Connor was taught at La Salle Academy and University of Notre Dame.
On Wikipedia the categories read United States Coast Guard personnel of World War II, Novelists from Boston and La Salle Academy alumni.
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905) and Josh Radnor (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- La Salle Academy and University of Notre Dame
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1962)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 18
What the chart says
Edwin, according to the stars
Core essence
Edwin is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Edwin is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Edwin creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Edwin is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Edwin is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Edwin leads without needing to do it alone.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 O'Connor
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Providence 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 Providence that night
Computed for 41.82°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Providence at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.8° above the horizon in Draco.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Providence sits at 41.8°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 −48.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 56% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Providence, United States
The death is recorded at Boston, Suffolk County in 1968.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Edwin O'Connor: 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
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Leo
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Edwin O'Connor's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 29, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Edwin O'Connor was born on July 29, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Edwin O'Connor's birth date, July 29, 1918, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Edwin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edwin O'Connor's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Edwin O'Connor combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Edwin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Aries or Taurus 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
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Edwin’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.6° to 1.6° orb
Edwin’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.0° to 2.0° orb
Edwin’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.2° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.8° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.5° to 14.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 3°15′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 26°37′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 9°13′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 23°42′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 10°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.3°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.4°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.5°
- Chiron square Venus 2.6°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.9°
Edwin’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Edwin’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Saturn, NeptuneThree 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Sun quintile Mars 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.8°
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- Dag Hammarskjöld1905
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Other Leo Horse charts
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- Marisa MillerAmerican model
Other Radiant Scholars
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- Jordan BattleAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Ja'Marcus IngramAmerican football player (born 1997)
Famous people with Life Path 1
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Edwin’s cards
Computed from July 29, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q978959 (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.
The same Edwin O'Connor at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Edwin O'Connor.
Quick answers about Edwin O'Connor’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edwin O'Connor?
- Edwin O'Connor was a Leo: born July 29, 1918, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Edwin O'Connor's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 29, 1918 birth.
- What was Edwin O'Connor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edwin O'Connor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Edwin O'Connor's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edwin O'Connor's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
