Ronald A. Edmonds
Ronald A. Edmonds (born June 16, 1946, Richmond, United States; died 2024), was an American photographer. Edmonds's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
Ronald A. Edmonds’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Ronald
Ronald A. Edmonds’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ronald in the U.S.?
#638
US rank in 2025
~1,086,091
Americans share it since 1883
1947
its peak year
The SSA recorded 31,858 American boys and 94 girls named Ronald in 1946: 10th among boys and 856th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ronald’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ronald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1946, 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 Ronald apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Photography came in 1982, when Ronald A. Edmonds was 36.
Wikipedia files Ronald A. Edmonds under People from Richmond, California, Photographers from California and Pulitzer Prize for Photography winners.
Tupac Shakur (1971) and Barbara McClintock (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Photography (1982)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Ronald, according to the stars
Core essence
Ronald is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Ronald needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Ronald is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Ronald needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Ronald wants to be loved
Ronald 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. Ronald gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Ronald creates
How Ronald makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Ronald 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: Ronald is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ronald is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Ronald 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 Ronald's birth date. Working below.
Where Ronald sits
Six lines
Ronald’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Ronald A. Edmonds
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Richmond 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 Richmond that night
Computed for 37.94°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Richmond at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.0° above the horizon in Boötes.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
Richmond sits at 37.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −52.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Richmond on any night.
Sun 14° below the horizon, Moon down and 95% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Richmond, United States
The death is recorded at Falls Church, Virginia in 2024.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ronald A. Edmonds: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ronald's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · A bowl chart · No Earth 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
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Ronald A. Edmonds's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 16, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Ronald A. Edmonds was born on June 16, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Ronald A. Edmonds's birth date, June 16, 1946, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Ronald’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ronald A. Edmonds' date-only chart is Jupiter trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ronald A. Edmonds combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Ronald’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Capricorn 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
stableMoonsquareJupiter0.0° to 6.3° orb
Ronald’s feelings grind against their growth.
stableJupitertrineUranus0.5° to 0.6° orb
Ronald’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileMars2.8° to 3.2° orb
Ronald’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.7° to 5.5° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus6.6° to 7.5° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.6° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.4° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 5.2° to 16.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 5.8° to 17.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Ronald’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 14°55′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 12°60′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 8°02′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 21°48′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°40′ (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 sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.0°
- Eros square Pluto 2.1°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.3°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.5°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 2.9°
Ronald’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Ronald’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 Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.1°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 0.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.0°
More people like Ronald
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Born in United States
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on June 16
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
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Other Gemini Dog charts
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Other Gilded Healers
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Ronald’s cards
Computed from June 16, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ronald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7364612 (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 Ronald A. Edmonds, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ronald A. Edmonds at Wikipedia and ronedmondsphotography.wordpress.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ronald A. Edmonds.
Quick answers about Ronald A. Edmonds’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ronald A. Edmonds?
- Ronald A. Edmonds was a Gemini: born June 16, 1946, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Ronald A. Edmonds's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 16, 1946 birth.
- What was Ronald A. Edmonds's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ronald A. Edmonds's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ronald A. Edmonds's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ronald A. Edmonds's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
