Lewis Spratlan
Lewis Spratlan (born September 5, 1940, Miami, United States; died 2023), was an American music academic. Spratlan's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Lewis Spratlan’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Lewis
Lewis Spratlan’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
The SSA recorded 1,900 American boys and 8 girls named Lewis in 1940: 107th among boys and 3,380th among girls for the year.
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
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, 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 Pulitzer Prize for Music came in 2000, when Lewis Spratlan was 60.
The schooling ran through Yale University.
Wikipedia files Lewis Spratlan under Amherst College faculty, American classical composers and Pulitzer Prize for Music winners.
Raquel Welch shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Music (2000)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
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.
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 refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Lewis 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: Lewis is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Lewis is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Lewis leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Lewis 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 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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Spratlan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Miami 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 Miami that night
Computed for 25.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Miami was Sheliak, in Lyra, 82.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 79 catalog stars were up in all.
Miami sits at 25.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 21% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Miami, United States
The death is recorded at Mount Laurel, Burlington County in 2023.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Lewis Spratlan: 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
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · 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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Lewis Spratlan's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 5, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Lewis Spratlan was born on September 5, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Lewis Spratlan's birth date, September 5, 1940, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Lewis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lewis Spratlan's date-only chart is Mercury trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Lewis Spratlan combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Lewis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 1.7° orb
Lewis’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenussextileUranus0.4° to 1.4° orb
Lewis’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.6° to 1.5° orb
Lewis’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.7° to 2.6° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.0° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn1.3° to 2.3° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune1.8° to 2.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars1.9° to 2.3° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.5° to 3.8° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.6° to 4.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Lewis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 28°04′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 16°46′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 21°50′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 1°29′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 9°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Venus 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.1°
- Eros square Neptune 2.9°
Lewis’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Lewis’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 2.0°
Born the same day as Lewis
Raquel Welch was born on September 5, 1940 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 79 catalog stars stood above Miami, at 25.8°N that night, with Sheliak nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Lewis
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Born in United States
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Lewis’s cards
Computed from September 5, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lewis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6537065 (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.
The same Lewis Spratlan at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Spratlan.
Quick answers about Lewis Spratlan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Lewis Spratlan?
- Lewis Spratlan was a Virgo: born September 5, 1940, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Lewis Spratlan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 5, 1940 birth.
- What was Lewis Spratlan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Lewis Spratlan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Lewis Spratlan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Lewis Spratlan's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
