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Leon Litwack

Leon Litwack (born December 2, 1929, Santa Barbara, United States; died 2021), was an American historian. Litwack's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, National Book Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Leon Litwack’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Leon Litwack’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

Of the names registered in 1929, Leon came 81st among boys and 1,793rd among girls, carried by 2,336 American boys and 21 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Leon’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

3

Soul Urge · being heard

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on L (3) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against 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 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold

The record

What sets Leon apart

Britney Spears (1981) and Lucy Liu (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Leon, according to the stars

Core essence

Leon is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Leon is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Leon wants to be loved

Leon wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Leon even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Leon has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step 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.

Intimate circleWide network
Leon

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Leon

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Leon

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Leon

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Leon

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Leon

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Leon Litwack

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Santa Barbara on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Leon’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 82.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightBetelgeusedeep red · OrionBetelgeuse, in Orion. A deep red star, 28° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Betelgeuse →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Santa Barbara that night

Computed for 34.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Almach stood nearest the zenith over Santa Barbara at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.1° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 34.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Santa Barbara at all: they sit past the −55.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 51° below the horizon, Moon down and 4% lit at new moon.

How unusual Leon's chart is

Chart pattern score

32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Leon Litwack's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 2, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Earth Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Leon Litwack was born on December 2, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Leon Litwack's birth date, December 2, 1929, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Leon’s chart

Leon’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.1° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.2° orbSun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.3° orbMercury faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.6° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.6° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.8° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.8° orbSun in Sagittarius · 10°11′☉10°Moon in Sagittarius · 28°17′☽28°Mercury in Sagittarius · 13°06′☿13°Venus in Scorpio · 24°24′♀24°Mars in Sagittarius · 10°19′♂10°Jupiter in Gemini · 11°29′ · retrograde♃℞11°Saturn in Capricorn · 0°18′♄0°Uranus in Aries · 7°32′ · retrograde♅℞7°Neptune in Virgo · 3°35′♆3°Pluto in Cancer · 19°16′ · retrograde♇℞19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunconjunctionMars0.0° to 0.3° orb

    Leon’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 8.0° orb

    Leon’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter0.7° to 1.9° orb

    Leon’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.7° to 1.6° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter0.8° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus2.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.4° to 3.2° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus2.4° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.6° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus3.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto4.5° to 5.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Leon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 10°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 12°26′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 22°00′ (moves 0.63° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 2°49′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 21°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres opposition Mercury 0.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.0°
  • Ceres opposition Mars 2.1°
  • Ceres opposition Sun 2.3°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.6°

Leon’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Leon’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.

  • Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.7°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°

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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated

Leon’s cards

Computed from December 2, 1929. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Storyteller

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Leon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3830293 (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 Litwack 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 Litwack.

Quick answers about Leon Litwack’s chart

What zodiac sign was Leon Litwack?
Leon Litwack was a Sagittarius: born December 2, 1929, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Leon Litwack's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 2, 1929 birth.
What was Leon Litwack's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Leon Litwack's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Leon Litwack's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Leon Litwack's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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