Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel (born June 28, 1873, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France; died 1944), was a French surgeon and biologist. Carrel is best remembered for Man, The Unknown. Carrel's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Alexis Carrel’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rooster, with 
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Alexis Carrel’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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Alexis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Alexis, according to the stars
Core essence
Alexis feels the room before entering it. The core of Alexis is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Alexis, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Alexis 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 Alexis 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 Alexis wants to be loved
Alexis 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 Alexis is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Alexis creates
How Alexis makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Alexis creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Alexis is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Alexis is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Alexis runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Alexis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Alexis Carrel's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 28, 1873, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Water Rooster
Water RoosterCandid to a fault.
Alexis Carrel was born on June 28, 1873, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Alexis Carrel's birth date, June 28, 1873, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Alexis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alexis Carrel's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alexis Carrel combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Alexis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Alexis Carrel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° 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.
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.0° to 0.2° orb
Alexis’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.2° to 0.5° orb
Alexis’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.7° to 1.4° orb
Alexis’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.8° to 2.5° orb
Alexis’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.4° orb
Alexis’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.4° to 2.6° orb
Alexis’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.8° orb
Alexis’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.2° to 3.3° orb
Alexis’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquareMars3.4° to 4.8° orb
Alexis’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareUranus3.5° to 3.7° orb
Alexis’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.6° to 5.3° orb
Alexis’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.9° to 4.8° orb
Alexis’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Alexis’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.
⚷ ChironAries 18°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Alexis may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAries 4°37′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Alexis looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosScorpio 17°58′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Alexis is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaPisces 16°50′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Alexis needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 5°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Alexis exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.1°
- Ceres square Sun 2.2°
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°).
Alexis’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. ♂ Mars7 pts
disposes Neptune; 6 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Alexis 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 Alexis’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.
Grand cross · Mars, Neptune, Saturn, UranusTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.- Grand cross · Mars, Neptune, Mercury, SaturnTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
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.
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alexis Carrel, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Alexis’s cards
Every card is computed from June 28, 1873, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Alexis Carrel, 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
Alexis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q185777, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alexis Carrel 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 Alexis Carrel’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alexis Carrel?
- Alexis Carrel was a Cancer: born June 28, 1873, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster.
- What was Alexis Carrel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 28, 1873 birth.
- What time was Alexis Carrel 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 Alexis Carrel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the June 28, 1873 birth date.
- What was Alexis Carrel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 28, 1873 birth date.
- Where was Alexis Carrel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alexis Carrel's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Neptune; 6 major aspects). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
