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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Goat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Goat, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Leo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Leo sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for Leo Sowerby, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Leo’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.2° to 2.6° orb
Leo’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.7° to 4.9° orb
Leo’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.9° to 4.8° orb
Leo’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 4.4° orb
Leo’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.7° orb
Leo’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.5° to 6.6° orb
Leo’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunoppositionUranus6.7° to 7.7° orb
Leo’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 3°24′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Leo is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 10°59′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Leo caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAries 14°02′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Leo is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 21°51′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Leo is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 24°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Leo at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Leo’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Leo is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Leo’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Leo Sowerby, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Leo’s cards
Every card is computed from May 1, 1895, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Leo Sowerby, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Leo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q733341, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same Leo Sowerby at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Goat.
- 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 time was Leo Sowerby born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Leo Sowerby's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the May 1, 1895 birth date.
- What was Leo Sowerby's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 1, 1895 birth date.
- 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.
