Ezra is Hebrew for help or aid, carried by a scribe remembered for restoring order to a community after a period of upheaval. The name centers less on personal strength than on being useful to others at the right moment -- assistance treated as a calling rather than an afterthought.
Planets under the Sun's beams, or within twelve degrees thereof, are unfortunate, unless in the same degree with him, but when passed 12 degrees from him (existentes orientales) they are fortunate. - William Lilly (1602.-1681.)