Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath (born June 22, 1939, Jerusalem; died 2026), was an Israeli chemist. Yonath's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Israel Prize and Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.
Ada Yonath’s zodiac sign was Gemini or Cancer (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Earth Rabbit, with 
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How common is the name Ada in the U.S.?
#219
US rank in 2025
~107,183
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ada’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
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Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ada, according to the stars
How Ada wants to be loved
Ada wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Ada like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Ada creates
How Ada makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Ada 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: Ada is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ada is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Ada goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Ada's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Gemini or Cancer Sun
Ada Yonath was born on a day when the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Ada Yonath was born on June 22, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Ada Yonath's birth date, June 22, 1939, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Ada’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ada Yonath's date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
Ada’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ada Yonath, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.4° orb
Ada’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.7° to 1.5° orb
Ada’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.2° orb
Ada’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.8° to 2.0° orb
Ada’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.5° to 3.6° orb
Ada’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.6° to 4.4° orb
Ada’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileNeptune3.0° to 4.8° orb
Ada’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableVenustrineMars4.4° to 5.6° orb
Ada’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.5° orb
Ada’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssquareSaturn5.7° orb
Ada’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsquareJupiter6.1° to 6.9° orb
Ada’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableJupitertrinePluto6.4° orb
Ada’s growth flows straight into their depths.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Ada’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironCancer 10°38′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Ada is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresCancer 6°60′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Ada is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosTaurus 17°58′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Ada wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 8°19′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Ada is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 20°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Ada at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.2°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.4°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.2°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.7°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 2.3°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.7°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Ada’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Ada is read as acting first and reflecting after.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Ada’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
T-square onto Saturn · Mars, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
- Sun biquintile Mars 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ada Yonath, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Ada’s cards
Every card is computed from June 22, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ada Yonath, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Ada’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7426, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Hareesh N. Nampoothiri, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ada Yonath at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Ada Yonath’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ada Yonath?
- Ada Yonath was born on a day when the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit.
- What was Ada Yonath's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 22, 1939 birth.
- What time was Ada Yonath born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Ada Yonath's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the June 22, 1939 birth date.
- What was Ada Yonath's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 22, 1939 birth date.
- Where was Ada Yonath's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ada Yonath's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
