R. W. B. Lewis
R. W. B. Lewis (born November 1, 1917, Chicago, United States; died 2002), was an American literary critic. Lewis's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Bancroft Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
R. W. B. Lewis’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with R. W. B. Lewis
R. W. B. Lewis’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
What R. W. B. Lewis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
5
Soul Urge · freedom
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on R (9) 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
R. W. B. Lewis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Crimson · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1917, 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 R. W. B. Lewis apart
R. W. B. Lewis took the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction in 1975, at 58.
Training came by way of Phillips Exeter Academy and University of Chicago.
On the family side, R. W. B. Lewis was raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put R. W. B. Lewis under People from Bethany, Connecticut, Episcopal Academy alumni and American literary critics.
Aishwarya Rai (1973) and Tim Cook (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Phillips Exeter Academy, University of Chicago and Harvard University
- Awards
- Bancroft Prize (1976), Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1976) and National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction (1975)
- Nominated for
- National Book Award for Nonfiction
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
What the chart says
R. W. B. Lewis, according to the stars
Core essence
R. W. B. Lewis does not do surface. The core of R. W. B. Lewis is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from R. W. B. Lewis is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, R. W. B. Lewis processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What R. W. B. Lewis needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How R. W. B. Lewis wants to be loved
R. W. B. Lewis wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with R. W. B. Lewis and watch them fall for you again.
How R. W. B. Lewis creates
How R. W. B. 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. R. W. B. 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: R. W. B. Lewis is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. R. W. B. Lewis is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means R. W. B. Lewis fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from R. W. B. Lewis's birth date. Working below.
Where R. W. B. Lewis sits
Six lines
R. W. B. Lewis’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 13.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 100 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 41.9°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 Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon up and 90% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
The death is recorded at Bethany, South Central Connecticut Planning Region in 2002.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for R. W. B. Lewis: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual R.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Earth planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
R. W. B. Lewis's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 1, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
R. W. B. Lewis was born on November 1, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
R. W. B. Lewis's birth date, November 1, 1917, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in R. W. B. Lewis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in R. W. B. Lewis' date-only chart is Mercury square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- R. W. B. Lewis combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
R. W. B. Lewis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Gemini 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
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.0° to 1.2° orb
R. W. B. Lewis’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 1.6° orb
R. W. B. Lewis’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareNeptune1.2° to 2.2° orb
R. W. B. Lewis’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.3° to 2.9° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableSuntrinePluto2.8° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.5° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn4.8° to 5.7° orb
stableVenustrineMars5.4° to 6.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus5.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 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: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
R. W. B. Lewis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 25°58′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 12°07′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 4°10′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 3°16′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 10°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.2°
- Eros opposition Pluto 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.3°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.9°
- Chiron square Venus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.6°
R. W. B. Lewis’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in R. W. B. 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.4°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
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R. W. B. Lewis’s cards
Computed from November 1, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
R. W. B. Lewis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q990492 (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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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about R. W. B. Lewis’s chart
- What zodiac sign was R. W. B. Lewis?
- R. W. B. Lewis was a Scorpio: born November 1, 1917, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was R. W. B. Lewis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 1, 1917 birth.
- What was R. W. B. Lewis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was R. W. B. Lewis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was R. W. B. Lewis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was R. W. B. Lewis's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
