Leon Edel
Leon Edel (born September 9, 1907, Pittsburgh, United States; died 1997), was a Canadian writer. Edel's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, National Book Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Leon Edel’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Leon
Leon Edel’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 Leon in the U.S.?
#138
US rank in 2025
~184,074
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
In 1907, 324 American boys and 9 girls were registered Leon — 80th among boys and 1,459th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Leon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on L (3) 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
Leon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1907, 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 Leon apart
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1936, when Leon Edel was 29.
Study took Leon Edel to McGill University and University of Paris.
On Wikipedia the categories read Ritchie Boys, American expatriate writers in Canada and Academic staff of Concordia University.
Luka Modrić (1985) and Adam Sandler (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- McGill University and University of Paris
- Awards
- National Book Award (1963), Guggenheim Fellowship (1936) and Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1963)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Leon, according to the stars
Core essence
Leon notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Leon is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Leon cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Leon needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Leon wants to be loved
Leon 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 Leon and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Leon creates
How Leon makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Leon 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: Leon 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Leon 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Leon does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Leon's birth date. Working below.
Where Leon sits
Six lines
Leon’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Leon Edel
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh that night
Computed for 40.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Pittsburgh at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 4.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Pittsburgh sits at 40.4°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 −49.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 5% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 25° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Pittsburgh, United States
The death is recorded at Honolulu, Honolulu County in 1997.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Leon Edel: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Leon's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Pluto
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Leon Edel's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 9, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Leon Edel was born on September 9, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Leon Edel's birth date, September 9, 1907, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Leon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Leon Edel's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Leon Edel 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.
Leon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Libra 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
stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
Leon’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
Leon’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineMars0.6° to 1.5° orb
Leon’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.9° to 1.9° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune0.9° to 1.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.3° to 1.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.9° to 2.7° orb
stableSuntrineMars2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.8° to 4.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.4° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurytrineMars4.1° to 5.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus4.4° to 4.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Leon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 14°06′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 26°52′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 29°10′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 1°27′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 17°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.3°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.8°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 3.0°
Leon’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Leon’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.7°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
More people like Leon
Other biographers
Born in United States
- Barbara StanwyckAmerican actress
- Homer BigartAmerican journalist
- Rachel CarsonAmerican marine biologist and conservationist
- William Randolph Hearst Jr.American newspaper editor
- Robert YoungAmerican actor
- Edwin McMillanAmerican physicist
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- Thomas MeunierBelgian association football player
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Born in Goat years
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- Eben EtzebethSouth African rugby union footballer
Also born on September 9
- Luka Modrić1985
- Adam Sandler1966
- Hugh Grant1960
- Patrick Collison1988
- Dara1998
- Chaim Topol1935
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Mauricio MacriPresident of Argentina from 2015 to 2019
- Naomi OsakaJapanese tennis player
- Gwen StefaniAmerican singer
Other Virgo Goat charts
- Max GreenfieldAmerican actor (born 1979)
- Scott HoyingAmerican singer
- Faith HillAmerican country singer (born 1967)
- Eric JohnsonAmerican football player
Other Gilded Storytellers
- Clifford J. LevyAmerican journalist
- Upton SinclairAmerican writer
- Edward AlbeeAmerican playwright
- James WrightAmerican poet, born 1927
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Cate BlanchettAustralian actor and producer
- Sandra BullockAmerican actress and film producer
- Chris PrattAmerican actor
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Leon’s cards
Computed from September 9, 1907. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Leon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q611518 (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 Leon Edel at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Leon Edel.
Quick answers about Leon Edel’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Leon Edel?
- Leon Edel was a Virgo: born September 9, 1907, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Leon Edel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 9, 1907 birth.
- What was Leon Edel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Leon Edel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Leon Edel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Leon Edel's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
