Lewis Black
Lewis Black (born August 30, 1948, Silver Spring, United States), aged 78, is an American comedian and actor.
Lewis Black’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 33 in numerology.Your match with Lewis
Lewis Black’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Lewis in the U.S.?
#433
US rank in 2025
~156,636
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1948, Lewis came 130th among boys and 4,068th among girls, carried by 2,143 American boys and 8 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lewis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
6
Soul Urge · being needed
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lewis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
33 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1948, 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 Lewis apart
The classrooms behind this chart: Springbrook High School and Yale School of Drama.
The working life starts in 1981, at 33.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Lewis Black: American religious skeptics, Comedians from Washington, D.C. and Dramatists and playwrights from Maryland.
Ernest Rutherford (1871) and Warren Buffett (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Springbrook High School, Yale School of Drama and University of Maryland
- Working from
- 1981
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 25
What the chart says
Lewis, according to the stars
Core essence
Lewis 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 Lewis is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Lewis is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Lewis needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Lewis wants to be loved
Lewis wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Lewis gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Lewis creates
How Lewis makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Lewis creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Lewis is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Lewis is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Lewis fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Lewis's birth date. Working below.
Where Lewis sits
Six lines
Lewis’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Lewis Black
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Silver Spring 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 Silver Spring that night
Computed for 39.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Silver Spring was Vega, in Lyra, 88.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 81 catalog stars were up in all.
From 39.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Silver Spring at all: they sit past the −51.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon down and 17% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Silver Spring, United States
- Lives in
- Chapel Hill · Manhattan
Wikidata records Chapel Hill and Manhattan as Lewis Black's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Lewis Black: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Lewis's chart is
Chart pattern score
52 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Lewis Black's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 30, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Lewis Black was born on August 30, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 33
Life Path 33Love as a job description.
Lewis Black's birth date, August 30, 1948, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 33 means →What stands out in Lewis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lewis Black's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Lewis Black combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Lewis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Cancer 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
stableMarssextileSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb
Lewis’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.9° to 2.6° orb
Lewis’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineUranus2.3° to 2.9° orb
Lewis’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.4° to 5.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto4.2° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.9° to 6.2° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.8° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 3.5° to 16.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Lewis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 19°58′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 24°07′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 20°47′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 14°38′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 4°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.6°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.3°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.7°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.8°
Lewis’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Uranus
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Lewis’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.2°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.9°
More people like Lewis
Other screenwriters
- Keith Carradine1949
- Ian McEwan1948
- A. Scott Berg1949
- Andrew Lloyd Webber1948
- Jeffrey Price1949
- William Gibson1948
Born in United States
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- James P. AllisonAmerican immunologist and Nobel laureate (born 1948)
- Spider RobinsonCanadian author
- Tommy MottolaAmerican music executive
- Ann Walton KroenkeAmerican businesswoman, heiress to the Walmart fortune
- Ben BurttAmerican sound designer and film director
More charts like Lewis’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Lisa VanderpumpEnglish actress, businesswoman, executive producer, and television personality (born 1960)
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Born in Rat years
- Paul NurseNobel prize winning British biochemist
- Richard KuhnAustrian-German biochemist
- Santiago Ramón y CajalSpanish scientist
Also born on August 30
- Ernest Rutherford1871
- Warren Buffett1930
- Cameron Diaz1972
- Bebe Rexha1989
- Thom Tillis1960
- Gabriel Aubry1975
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Eddie Van HalenDutch-American rock guitarist
- Chien-Shiung WuChinese-American physicist
- James MarsdenAmerican actor
Other Virgo Rat charts
- Dejounte MurrayAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Sommer RayAmerican fitness model
- Charles SimonyiHungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
- John CatsimatidisAmerican billionaire, radio talk show host, and politician
Other Radiant Healers
- James Forman, Jr.American author and professor
- Royce O'NealeAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- LaMelo BallAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Len BlavatnikBritish-American business magnate
Famous people with Life Path 33
- George HamiltonAmerican film and television actor
- Joseph SchwantnerAmerican composer (born 1943)
- Paul GreenAmerican playwright
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Lewis’s cards
Computed from August 30, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
33 · Lightkeeper☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lewis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q180252 (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 U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lewis Black at Wikipedia, lewisblack.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lewis Black.
Quick answers about Lewis Black’s chart
- How old is Lewis Black?
- Lewis Black is 78 years old, born August 30, 1948 in Silver Spring, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Lewis Black?
- Lewis Black is a Virgo: born August 30, 1948, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Lewis Black's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 30, 1948 birth.
- What is Lewis Black's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
- What is Lewis Black's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Lewis Black's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lewis Black's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
