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, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Alexis
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.
How common is the name Alexis in the U.S.?
#513
US rank in 2025
~412,632
Americans share it since 1882
1998
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Alexis falls under that line for 1880. Its peak came in 1998, and 412,632 Americans have carried it since 1882.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alexis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on A (1) and closes on S (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alexis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Alexis apart
Elon Musk (1971) and Muhammad Yunus (1940) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Alexis sits
Six lines
Alexis’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Alexis Carrel
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon that night
Computed for 45.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon at 9 p.m. that evening: Edasich of Draco, within 13.9° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 45.7°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −44.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 15% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 10° below the horizon.
How unusual Alexis's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Leo 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
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
stableMarssextileJupiter2.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.8° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.4° to 4.8° orb
stableMarssquareUranus3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.6° to 5.3° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.9° to 4.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 18°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 4°37′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 17°58′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 16°50′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 5°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.1°
- Ceres square Sun 2.2°
Alexis’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Alexis’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Alexis
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- Saint-John PerseFrench poet and diplomat
- André GideFrench author and Nobel laureate
- Maurice ChevalierFrench singer, actor, and entertainer
- Jeanne LanvinFrench fashion designer
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Fellow Cancer suns
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- Tupou VI of TongaKing of Tonga
- Lindsey GrahamAmerican politician and attorney
Born in Rooster years
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- Ruth NeggaEthiopian-Irish actress
Also born on June 28
- Elon Musk1971
- Muhammad Yunus1940
- Maria Göppert Mayer1906
- Kevin De Bruyne1991
- Itamar Franco1930
- Markiplier1989
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Brian KobilkaAmerican physiologist
- John GurdonBritish developmental biologist
- François EnglertBelgian theoretical physicist
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- Mark KurtserRussian physician
- Hong Ra-heewife of Lee Kun-hee
- Luis PaganiArgentinian businessperson
- Ariana GrandeAmerican singer, songwriter, and actress
Other Gilded Strategists
- Igor ThiagoBrazilian footballer (born 2001)
- Emiliano MartínezUruguayan footballer (born 1999)
- Sander TangvikNorwegian association football goalkeeper (born 2002)
- Cameron JordanAmerican football player (born 1989)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Logan CostaCape Verdean association football player (born 2001)
- Jarell QuansahEnglish association football player
- Idrissa GueyeSenegalese association football player
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Alexis’s cards
Computed from June 28, 1873. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alexis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q185777 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alexis Carrel at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alexis Carrel.
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.
- 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 was Alexis Carrel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alexis Carrel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
