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Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson (born April 23, 1897, Toronto, Canada; died 1972) was a 14th Prime Minister of Canada, from 1963 to 1968.

Lester B. Pearson (1897–1972) served as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada, from 1963 to 1968. Pearson held office as Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Chancellor of Carleton University. Pearson's honours include Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, honorary doctorate from Princeton University and honorary doctorate from the McGill University.

Lester B. Pearson’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

Your match with Lester

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Lester B. Pearson’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Lester in the U.S.?

#1641

US rank in 2025

~132,047

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

The SSA recorded 310 American boys and 8 girls named Lester in 1897: 62nd among boys and 1,217th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Lester’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on L (3) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Lester’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

White · Blush · Flame orange

The record

What sets Lester apart

Max Planck (1858) and Halldór Laxness (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Lester, according to the stars

Core essence

Lester 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 Lester 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 Lester wants to be loved

Lester wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Lester is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Lester creates

How Lester makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Lester 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: Lester is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Lester is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Lester 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 Lester's birth date. Working below.

Where Lester sits

Six lines

Lester’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Lester

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Lester

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Lester

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lester

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Lester

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Lester

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Lester B. Pearson

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Toronto 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 Toronto that night

Computed for 43.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Toronto was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 83.3° up.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Toronto sits at 43.7°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 Toronto at all: they sit past the −46.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 48% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.

How unusual Lester's chart is

Chart pattern score

67 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Taurus · T-square onto Jupiter · No Fire 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.

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Lester B. Pearson at a glance

Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Lester B. Pearson's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 23, 1897, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Fire Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Lester B. Pearson was born on April 23, 1897, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 7

Asks the better question.

Lester B. Pearson's birth date, April 23, 1897, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Lester’s chart

Lester’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 1° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.2° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.1° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.2° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 2.5° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.3° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.5° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 4.6° orbSun in Taurus · 3°46′☉3°Moon in Aquarius · 1°19′☽1°Mercury in Taurus · 23°21′☿23°Venus in Taurus · 11°46′ · retrograde♀℞11°Mars in Cancer · 16°23′♂16°Jupiter in Virgo · 0°14′ · retrograde♃℞0°Saturn in Scorpio · 29°13′ · retrograde♄℞29°Uranus in Scorpio · 28°00′ · retrograde♅℞27°Neptune in Gemini · 18°21′♆18°Pluto in Gemini · 12°20′♇12°

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

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.0° to 1.1° orb

    Lester’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus1.2° orb

    Lester’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus2.2° orb

    Lester’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter3.0° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.0° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.2° to 6.6° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.0° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 2.0° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 3.6° to 17.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 11°22′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 9°31′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 8°06′ (moves 0.79° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 22°30′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 14°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Venus 0.4°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 2.2°

Lester’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Lester’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · 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.

  • Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.1°
  • Sun semi-square Neptune 0.4°
  • Sun quintile Mars 0.6°
  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.1°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°

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Lester’s cards

Computed from April 23, 1897. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Lester’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q128604 (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 ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lester B. Pearson.

Quick answers about Lester B. Pearson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Lester B. Pearson?
Lester B. Pearson was a Taurus: born April 23, 1897, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Lester B. Pearson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 23, 1897 birth.
How tall was Lester B. Pearson?
Lester B. Pearson was 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Lester B. Pearson's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Lester B. Pearson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Lester B. Pearson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Lester B. Pearson's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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