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Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.

Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. (born August 18, 1945, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, United States; died 1994), was an American Marine officier and attorney. Puller,'s honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Purple Heart and Silver Star.

Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.’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 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 1945, Lewis came 123rd among boys and 2,681st among girls, carried by 1,836 American boys and 12 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Lewis’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

3

Soul Urge · being heard

9

Personality · generous, worldly

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

9 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern

Coral · Gold · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1945, 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

Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. took the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1992, at 47.

The classrooms behind this chart: William & Mary Law School and Christchurch School.

The grave is at Arlington National Cemetery.

The family line: born to Chesty Puller and married Toddy Puller.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.: American military personnel who died by suicide, Suicides by firearm in Virginia and George Mason University faculty.

Edward Norton (1969) and Patrick Swayze (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
William & Mary Law School, Christchurch School and College of William & Mary
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1992)
Buried at
Arlington National Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Lewis, according to the stars

Core essence

Lewis is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Lewis is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

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 make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Lewis creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Lewis 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Lewis 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Lewis scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Lewis

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
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You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lewis

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

PracticalVisionary
Lewis

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Lewis

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Lewis’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 78° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 26.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune that night

Computed for 34.59°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune was Vega, in Lyra, 78.0° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 34.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 78% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, United States

The death is recorded at Mount Vernon, Fairfax County in 1994.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.: 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

63 / 100 · Unusual

A bundled chart · 3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet

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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If you only read one paragraph

Leo Sun

Pride is the engine.

Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.'s Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 18, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Wood Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. was born on August 18, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.'s birth date, August 18, 1945, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Lewis’s chart

Lewis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Moon · Trine, 0.3° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.6° orbVenus fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.5° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.6° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.7° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 3.9° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 6° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 7.5° orbSun in Leo · 25°19′☉25°Moon in Sagittarius · 25°01′☽25°Mercury in Leo · 28°54′ · retrograde☿℞28°Venus in Cancer · 16°10′♀16°Mars in Gemini · 17°30′♂17°Jupiter in Virgo · 28°41′♃28°Saturn in Cancer · 19°43′♄19°Uranus in Gemini · 16°55′♅16°Neptune in Libra · 4°43′♆4°Pluto in Leo · 10°20′♇10°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableSuntrineMoon0.1° to 6.0° orb

    Lewis’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus0.3° to 0.9° orb

    Lewis’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.7° to 4.5° orb

    Lewis’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn3.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.9° to 6.1° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 1.6° to 13.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 1.9° to 14.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 3.4° to 15.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 3°04′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 7°28′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 1°42′ (moves 0.65° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 9°30′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 1°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 0.8°
  • Chiron conjunction Neptune 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.1°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.8°
  • Ceres square Pluto 2.9°

Lewis’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☽ Moon3 pts

    disposes Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Lewis’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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 quintile Uranus 0.0°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.2°
  • Venus quintile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Mercury quintile Mars 0.6°
  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.3°

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Lewis’s cards

Computed from August 18, 1945. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

9 · Healer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Lewis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6536363 (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.

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Quick answers about Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.’s chart

What zodiac sign was Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.?
Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. was a Leo: born August 18, 1945, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 18, 1945 birth.
What was Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.'s Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.'s Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.'s dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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