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), Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Ada
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
Of the names registered in 1939, Ada came 233rd, carried by 703 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ada’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on A (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ada’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Ada apart
Ada Yonath took the Israel Prize in 2002, at 63.
The classrooms behind this chart: Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Weizmann Institute of Science.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Ada Yonath: Israeli women physicists, Israel Prize in chemistry recipients and Carnegie Mellon University fellows.
Meryl Streep (1949) and Cyndi Lauper (1953) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Weizmann Institute of Science
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009), Israel Prize (2002) and Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2007)
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Languages
- English and Hebrew
- Wikipedia editions
- 89
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. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Jerusalem 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 Jerusalem that night
Computed for 31.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Jerusalem was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 84.6° up.
Of the 79 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 31.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Jerusalem at all: they sit past the −58.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 34% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.
How unusual Ada's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · 2 planets at a critical degree · Mars retrograde
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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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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Leo or Virgo 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
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
stableVenussextileJupiter2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.6° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune3.0° to 4.8° orb
stableVenustrineMars4.4° to 5.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.5° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.7° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter6.1° to 6.9° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 10°38′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 6°60′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 17°58′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 8°19′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 20°26′ (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 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°
Ada’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ada’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
- Sun biquintile Mars 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.4°
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Famous people with Life Path 5
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Ada’s cards
Computed from June 22, 1939. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ada’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7426 (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 Hareesh N. Nampoothiri, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ada Yonath at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ada Yonath.
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.
- 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 was Ada Yonath's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ada Yonath's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
