Leonora Speyer
Leonora Speyer (born November 7, 1872, Washington, D.C., United States; died 1956), was an American poet. Speyer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Robert Frost Medal.
Leonora Speyer’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Leonora
Leonora Speyer’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Leonora in the U.S.?
#1772
US rank in 2025
~7,504
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
The earliest American count for Leonora is 1880, 8 years on: 314th, 26 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Leonora’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
1
Soul Urge · independence
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on L (3) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Leonora’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
The record
What sets Leonora apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry came in 1927, when Leonora Speyer was 55.
Leonora Speyer was born to Ferdinand Graf von Stosch and married Edgar Speyer.
On Wikipedia the categories read American women classical violinists, Poets from Washington, D.C. and Speyer family.
Marie Curie (1867) and Albert Camus (1913) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- violin
- Awards
- Robert Frost Medal (1955) and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1927)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
What the chart says
Leonora, according to the stars
Core essence
Leonora does not do surface. The core of Leonora is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Leonora is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Leonora needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Leonora needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Leonora wants to be loved
Leonora wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Leonora and watch them fall for you again.
How Leonora creates
How Leonora 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. Leonora 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: Leonora 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Leonora is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Leonora channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Leonora's birth date. Working below.
Where Leonora sits
Six lines
Leonora’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 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 Leonora Speyer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Washington was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 79.5° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 100 catalog stars above the horizon.
Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Washington at all: they sit past the −51.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 49% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Washington, D.C., United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1956.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Leonora Speyer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Leonora's chart is
Chart pattern score
50 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · 2 planets at a critical degree · No Air planets
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 →Leonora Speyer at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Leonora Speyer's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 7, 1872, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Leonora Speyer was born on November 7, 1872, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Leonora Speyer's birth date, November 7, 1872, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Leonora’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Leonora Speyer's date-only chart is Mars trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Leonora Speyer 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.
Leonora’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Aquarius 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
stableMarstrinePluto0.0° to 0.3° orb
Leonora’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.5° to 1.5° orb
Leonora’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.7° to 2.0° orb
Leonora’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineSaturn3.0° to 3.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.0° to 4.4° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.2° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus4.7° to 6.2° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Leonora’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 11°18′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°03′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 1°39′ (moves 0.95° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius or Capricorn during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 9°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.8°
- Eros square Mercury 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.6°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Saturn 2.6°
Leonora’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Leonora’s chart
Kite · Mars, Saturn, Pluto, SunA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury quintile Mars 1.4°
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Also born on November 7
- Marie Curie1867
- Albert Camus1913
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman1888
- David Guetta1967
- Joni Mitchell1943
- Lisa Su1969
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Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Leonora’s cards
Computed from November 7, 1872. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Leonora’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1547340 (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.
Portrait by John Singer Sargent, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Leonora Speyer 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 Leonora Speyer.
Quick answers about Leonora Speyer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Leonora Speyer?
- Leonora Speyer was a Scorpio: born November 7, 1872, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Leonora Speyer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 7, 1872 birth.
- What was Leonora Speyer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Leonora Speyer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Leonora Speyer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Leonora Speyer's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
