Edwin Way Teale
Edwin Way Teale (born June 2, 1899, Joliet, United States; died 1980), was an American conservationist. Teale's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and John Burroughs Medal.
Edwin Way Teale’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Edwin
Edwin Way Teale’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
In 1899, 329 American boys and 7 girls were registered Edwin — 59th among boys and 1,308th 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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 · 5
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Lilac · Gold
The record
What sets Edwin apart
The John Burroughs Medal came in 1943, when Edwin Way Teale was 44.
Study took Edwin Way Teale to Joliet Central High School and Earlham College.
On the family side, Edwin Way Teale was married Nellie Teale.
On Wikipedia the categories read John Burroughs Medal recipients, Friends University people and Earlham College alumni.
Sergio Agüero (1988) and Awkwafina (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Joliet Central High School, Earlham College and Columbia University
- Awards
- John Burroughs Medal (1943) and Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1966)
- Nominated for
- National Book Award for Nonfiction
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
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 slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Edwin is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
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 warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Edwin fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Way Teale
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Joliet 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 Joliet that night
Computed for 41.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Joliet at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 8.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Joliet sits at 41.5°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 −48.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 27% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Joliet, United States
- Lived in
- Joliet
Wikidata records Joliet as Edwin Way Teale's home, Joliet among them.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Edwin Way Teale: 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
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Gemini · 2 unaspected planets
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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Edwin Way Teale's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 2, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
Edwin Way Teale was born on June 2, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Edwin Way Teale's birth date, June 2, 1899, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Edwin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edwin Way Teale's date-only chart is Mars sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Edwin Way Teale combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Edwin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Pisces or Aries 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
stableMarssextileNeptune1.1° to 1.5° orb
Edwin’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.3° to 2.0° orb
Edwin’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.7° to 3.6° orb
Edwin’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurysquareMars4.6° to 6.0° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus5.7° to 6.7° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.9° to 6.0° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.4° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 1.2° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 3.1° to 16.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 4.3° to 18.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 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 ℞Sagittarius 9°46′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 27°48′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 21°21′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 14°40′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 10°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Sun 2.2°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.7°
Edwin’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury
Configurations in Edwin’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Neptune, PlutoThree 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 1.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
- Sun quintile Mars 1.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
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Edwin’s cards
Computed from June 2, 1899. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3048826 (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 Way Teale 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 Way Teale.
Quick answers about Edwin Way Teale’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edwin Way Teale?
- Edwin Way Teale was a Gemini: born June 2, 1899, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Edwin Way Teale's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 2, 1899 birth.
- What was Edwin Way Teale's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edwin Way Teale's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Edwin Way Teale's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edwin Way Teale's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
