Laurence Edmund Allen
Laurence Edmund Allen (born October 19, 1908, Mount Savage, United States; died 1975), was an American journalist. Allen's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Laurence Edmund Allen’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Laurence
Laurence Edmund Allen’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Laurence in the U.S.?
#1747
US rank in 2025
~40,215
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1908, Laurence came 217th among boys and 1,976th among girls, carried by 91 American boys and 6 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Laurence’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on L (3) and closes on E (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
Laurence’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1908, 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 Laurence apart
Laurence Edmund Allen took the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1942, at 34.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Laurence Edmund Allen: People from Mount Savage, Maryland, American prisoners of war in World War II and Associated Press people.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910) and John Lithgow (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1942)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Laurence, according to the stars
Core essence
Laurence makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Laurence is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Laurence needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Laurence needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Laurence wants to be loved
Laurence 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 Laurence and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Laurence creates
How Laurence 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. Laurence 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: Laurence 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Laurence is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
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. Laurence fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Laurence's birth date. Working below.
Where Laurence sits
Six lines
Laurence’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Laurence Edmund Allen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mount Savage 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 Mount Savage that night
Computed for 39.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Mount Savage was Scheat, in Pegasus, 77.0° up.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 39.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 24% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
How unusual Laurence's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Laurence Edmund Allen's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 19, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Laurence Edmund Allen was born on October 19, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
Laurence Edmund Allen's birth date, October 19, 1908, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Laurence’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Laurence Edmund Allen's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Laurence Edmund Allen combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Laurence’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Leo 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
stableSuntrinePluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
Laurence’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Laurence’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 0.2° orb
Laurence’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.5° to 1.2° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.7° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune3.7° to 4.8° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.8° to 6.0° orb
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Laurence’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 18°23′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 19°06′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 7°27′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 2°30′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 2°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.4°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.0°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.2°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.8°
Laurence’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Laurence’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.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.1°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Laurence’s
Fellow Libra suns
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- Stefan Perssonbusiness magnate
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Born in Monkey years
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- Jessie Royce LandisAmerican actress
- James StewartAmerican actor and military officer
Also born on October 19
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar1910
- John Lithgow1945
- Rebecca Ferguson1983
- Lil Durk1992
- Ashlyn Harris1985
- Ty Pennington1964
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Annie ErnauxFrench writer (born 1940)
- Michael W. YoungAmerican geneticist, chronobiologist
- George SmithNobel prize winning US chemist
Other Libra Monkey charts
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- 21 SavageBritish-born rapper
- Ncuti GatwaRwandan-Scottish actor
Other Radiant Visionarys
- Judy SheindlinAmerican television judge
- Justin BaldoniAmerican actor and director
- Henna VirkkunenFinnish politician
- Patrice MotsepeSouth African businessman
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Haldan Keffer HartlineAmerican neuroscientist
- William G. KaelinAmerican Nobel Laureate, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University
- Peter J. RatcliffeBritish biologist & Nobel laureate in medicine
From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Laurence’s cards
Computed from October 19, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Laurence’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q100742035 (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 Laurence Edmund Allen at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Laurence Edmund Allen.
Quick answers about Laurence Edmund Allen’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Laurence Edmund Allen?
- Laurence Edmund Allen was a Libra: born October 19, 1908, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Laurence Edmund Allen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 19, 1908 birth.
- What was Laurence Edmund Allen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Laurence Edmund Allen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Laurence Edmund Allen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Laurence Edmund Allen's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
