Alexander Todd
Alexander Todd (born October 2, 1907, Glasgow, United Kingdom; died 1997), was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate. Todd served as President of the Royal Society and member of the House of Lords. Todd's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Copley Medal.
Alexander Todd’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Goat, with 
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Alexander Todd’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
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Alexander’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Alexander, according to the stars
Core essence
Alexander makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Alexander is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Alexander needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Alexander needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Alexander wants to be loved
Alexander wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Alexander gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Alexander creates
How Alexander makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Alexander builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Alexander is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Alexander is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Alexander does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Alexander's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Alexander Todd at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Alexander Todd's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 2, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Alexander Todd was born on October 2, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
Alexander Todd's birth date, October 2, 1907, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Alexander’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alexander Todd's date-only chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alexander Todd combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Alexander’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Alexander Todd, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Leo 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.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Alexander’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSunsquareUranus0.2° to 1.2° orb
Alexander’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.5° to 2.0° orb
Alexander’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.6° to 1.2° orb
Alexander’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenussquareNeptune1.4° to 2.6° orb
Alexander’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareMars1.8° to 2.7° orb
Alexander’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
Alexander’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareUranus3.4° to 4.6° orb
Alexander’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableVenussextileJupiter3.8° to 4.9° orb
Alexander’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.5° to 4.8° orb
Alexander’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.0° orb
Alexander’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Alexander’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 13°21′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Alexander making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 7°02′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Alexander caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Aries 26°19′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Alexander is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 28°29′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Alexander feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 19°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Alexander guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Eros opposition Mercury 0.3°
- Chiron trine Venus 0.6°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.8°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.4°
- Eros square Mars 2.5°
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°).
Alexander’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. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Alexander is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Alexander’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.
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
T-square onto Venus · Uranus, Neptune, VenusAn 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.
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alexander Todd, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Alexander’s cards
Every card is computed from October 2, 1907, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Alexander Todd, 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
Alexander’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q157242, 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.
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The same Alexander Todd 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 Alexander Todd’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alexander Todd?
- Alexander Todd was a Libra: born October 2, 1907, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
- What was Alexander Todd's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 2, 1907 birth.
- What time was Alexander Todd 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 Alexander Todd's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the October 2, 1907 birth date.
- What was Alexander Todd's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 2, 1907 birth date.
- Where was Alexander Todd's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alexander Todd's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
