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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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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

US Social Security Administration public records

Lester’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Lester sits

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Lester’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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

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

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. 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.

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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in Lester’s chart

Lester’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Lester B. Pearson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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′Moon in Aquarius · 1°19′Mercury in Taurus · 23°21′23°Venus in Taurus · 11°46′ · retrograde11°Mars in Cancer · 16°23′16°Jupiter in Virgo · 0°14′ · retrogradeSaturn in Scorpio · 29°13′ · retrograde29°Uranus in Scorpio · 28°00′ · retrograde27°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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Lester’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.0° to 5.4° orb

    Lester’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.2° to 6.6° orb

    Lester’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.0° orb

    Lester’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • 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

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.

  • ChironScorpio 11°22′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Lester carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.

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

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Lester is read as someone who shows care by providing.

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

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

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Lester wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

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

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

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Lester is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Lester is read as immovable on those points.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

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

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°).

Lester’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. 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

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Lester is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Lester’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.

  • 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 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 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Lester B. Pearson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Lester’s cards

Every card is computed from April 23, 1897, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

yin Fire

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yang Wood

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Metal

Pig

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Lester B. Pearson, 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

Lester’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q128604, 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.

Portrait by ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Lester B. Pearson at Wikipedia.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster.
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.
What time was Lester B. Pearson 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.
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 from the April 23, 1897 birth date.
What was Lester B. Pearson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 23, 1897 birth date.
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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