Leo Sowerby
Leo Sowerby (born May 1, 1895, Grand Rapids, United States; died 1968), was an American composer and church musician. Sowerby's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music and Rome Prize.
Leo Sowerby’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Leo
Leo Sowerby’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Leo in the U.S.?
#19
US rank in 2025
~262,124
Americans share it since 1880
2022
its peak year
Leo ranked 42nd among boys and 1,369th among girls in 1895, the year of this birth, with 509 American boys and 7 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Leo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
22
Soul Urge · legacy
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on L (3) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Leo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
The record
What sets Leo apart
Leo Sowerby took the Rome Prize in 1921, at 26.
Innovation Central High School and American Conservatory of Music shaped the training.
The grave is at Washington National Cathedral.
Wikipedia's editors put Leo Sowerby under American Conservatory of Music faculty, Musicians from Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cedille Records artists.
Charli D'Amelio (2004) and Jamie Dornan (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Innovation Central High School and American Conservatory of Music
- Instruments
- pipe organ
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Music (1946) and Rome Prize (1921)
- Buried at
- Washington National Cathedral
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
What the chart says
Leo, according to the stars
Core essence
Leo 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 Leo 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 Leo wants to be loved
Leo wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Leo like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Leo creates
How Leo makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Leo creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Leo 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Leo 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Leo does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Leo's birth date. Working below.
Where Leo sits
Six lines
Leo’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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Leo Sowerby
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Grand Rapids 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 Grand Rapids that night
Computed for 42.96°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Phecda stood nearest the zenith over Grand Rapids at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.2° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 97 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 43.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Grand Rapids on any night.
The Moon, 50% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Grand Rapids, United States
The death is recorded at Port Clinton, Ottawa County in 1968.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Leo Sowerby: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Leo's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Fire planets · A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Leo Sowerby's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 1, 1895, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Leo Sowerby was born on May 1, 1895, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Leo Sowerby's birth date, May 1, 1895, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Leo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Leo Sowerby's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Leo Sowerby combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Leo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Cancer or 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
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.0° to 0.2° orb
Leo’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileMars0.7° to 2.2° orb
Leo’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.8° to 3.0° orb
Leo’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineSaturn2.0° to 2.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.2° to 2.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.7° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.9° to 4.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 4.4° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.5° to 6.6° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus6.7° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Leo’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 3°24′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 10°59′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 14°02′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 21°51′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 24°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.1°
- Ceres trine Sun 0.1°
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Chiron square Mars 2.3°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.6°
Leo’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Leo’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 sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.6°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
More people like Leo
Other composers
- Quinto Maganini1897
- Ross Lee Finney1906
- Georg Solti1912
- Ernst Toch1887
- Frederick Loewe1901
- Walter Scharf1910
Born in United States
- Bert LahrAmerican actor
- Paul GreenAmerican playwright
- Philip Showalter HenchAmerican physician
- John S. KnightAmerican newspaper publisher
- Morrie RyskindAmerican activist and entertainer
- Walter PistonAmerican composer
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- Robert TonyanAmerican football tight end
- Ashton DulinAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Alec PierceAmerican football player (born 2000)
Born in Goat years
- Adolfo Pérez EsquivelArgentine activist, architect and sculptor
- Johannes Hans Daniel JensenGerman nuclear physicist
- Robert LefkowitzAmerican physician and biochemist
Also born on May 1
- Charli D'Amelio2004
- Jamie Dornan1982
- Rema2000
- Chet Holmgren2002
- Victoria Monét1989
- Freida McFadden1980
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- K'Von WallaceAmerican football safety
- Kyle HamiltonAmerican football safety
- Parker WashingtonAmerican football player (born 2002)
Other Taurus Goat charts
- Malaki BranhamAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Trey AlexanderAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Jeremy SochanAmerican-Polish basketball player
- Adam NeumannIsraeli-American entrepreneur
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Pascal SiakamCameroonian basketball player (born 1994)
- Bennedict MathurinCanadian basketball player (born 2002)
- Keegan MurrayAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Kyshawn GeorgeSwiss basketball player (born 2003)
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Jay LenoAmerican television host and comedian (born 1950)
- Juliette LewisAmerican actress and singer
- John LegendAmerican singer-songwriter
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Leo’s cards
Computed from May 1, 1895. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Leo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q733341 (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 Leo Sowerby at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Leo Sowerby.
Quick answers about Leo Sowerby’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Leo Sowerby?
- Leo Sowerby was a Taurus: born May 1, 1895, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Leo Sowerby's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 1, 1895 birth.
- What was Leo Sowerby's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Leo Sowerby's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Leo Sowerby's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Leo Sowerby's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
