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Ted Morgan

Ted Morgan (born March 30, 1932, Geneva, Switzerland; died 2023), was a French-American journalist and biographer. Morgan's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.

Ted Morgan’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Ted Morgan’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Diplomat

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Ted in the U.S.?

#3229

US rank in 2025

~75,424

Americans share it since 1880

1958

its peak year

Ted ranked 147th among boys and 3,251st among girls in 1932, the year of this birth, with 1,067 American boys and 9 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ted’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

3

Soul Urge · being heard

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on T (2) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Ted’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1932, 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 Ted apart

Ted Morgan took the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 1961, at 29.

Yale University shaped the training.

The family line: born to Marie Helene Negroponte and Comte Gabriel de Gramont.

Wikipedia's editors put Ted Morgan under Deaths from dementia in New York (state), French military personnel of the Algerian War and Writers from Geneva.

Céline Dion (1968) and Ingvar Kamprad (1926) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Yale University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting (1961)
Citizenship
United States and France
Languages
French and English
Wikipedia editions
12

What the chart says

Ted, according to the stars

Core essence

Ted leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Ted is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Ted wants to be loved

Ted wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Ted is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Ted creates

How Ted makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Ted creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Ted is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ted 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Ted slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Ted's birth date. Working below.

Where Ted sits

Six lines

Ted’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Ted

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ted

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Ted

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ted

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

PracticalVisionary
Ted

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ted

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ted Morgan

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Geneva on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Ted’s birth-night reference starAlkaphrahblue-white · Ursa MajorAlkaphrah, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 88.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaphrah →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 21.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Geneva that night

Computed for 46.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Geneva at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.

Geneva sits at 46.2°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −43.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon down and 33% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Geneva, Switzerland

The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2023.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ted Morgan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Ted's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Mercury · 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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Ted Morgan at a glance

Aries Sun

Impatient, and usually right to be.

Ted Morgan's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 30, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Water Monkey

Wit is the tool.

Ted Morgan was born on March 30, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 3

Creative, loud, warm.

Ted Morgan's birth date, March 30, 1932, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Ted’s chart

Ted’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

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

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Mercury · Square, 0.4° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.2° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 1.4° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.6° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.2° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.1° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 5° orbSun in Aries · 9°32′☉9°Moon in Capricorn · 25°26′☽25°Mercury in Aries · 24°59′☿24°Venus in Taurus · 24°02′♀24°Mars in Pisces · 27°01′♂27°Jupiter in Leo · 12°44′ · retrograde♃℞12°Saturn in Aquarius · 3°08′♄3°Uranus in Aries · 18°46′♅18°Neptune in Virgo · 5°46′ · retrograde♆℞5°Pluto in Cancer · 19°57′ · retrograde♇℞19°

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

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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

  • stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.8° orb

    Ted’s feelings grind against their mind.

  • stableUranussquarePluto1.2° orb

    Ted’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter2.7° to 3.7° orb

    Ted’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableVenussextileMars2.8° to 3.1° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto3.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto5.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus6.0° to 6.1° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus6.2° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.2° to 13.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 20°34′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 19°34′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 25°09′ (moves 0.65° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 12°52′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 0.1°
  • Ceres opposition Pluto 0.4°
  • Chiron sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Ceres square Uranus 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.3°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 1.9°

Ted’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Ted’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.7°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 2.0°

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Ted’s cards

Computed from March 30, 1932. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Diplomat

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ted’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2399828 (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 Ted Morgan at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ted Morgan.

Quick answers about Ted Morgan’s chart

What zodiac sign was Ted Morgan?
Ted Morgan was an Aries: born March 30, 1932, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What was Ted Morgan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 30, 1932 birth.
What was Ted Morgan's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Ted Morgan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Ted Morgan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Ted Morgan's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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