Alfred G. Gilman
Alfred G. Gilman (born July 1, 1941, New Haven, United States; died 2015), was an American pharmacologist. Gilman's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and Canada Gairdner International Award.
Alfred G. Gilman’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Alfred
Alfred G. Gilman’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Alfred in the U.S.?
#840
US rank in 2025
~245,153
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
The SSA recorded 3,052 American boys and 20 girls named Alfred in 1941: 74th among boys and 1,810th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alfred’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on A (1) and closes on D (4).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alfred’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Alfred apart
The John J. Abel Award came in 1975, when Alfred G. Gilman was 34.
Alfred G. Gilman was taught at Case Western Reserve University and University of Virginia.
Cause of death is recorded as pancreatic cancer.
Wikipedia files Alfred G. Gilman under Deaths from pancreatic cancer in Texas, University of Virginia School of Medicine faculty and American critics of creationism.
Twyla Tharp shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Case Western Reserve University, University of Virginia and Yale University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1994), John J. Abel Award (1975) and Canada Gairdner International Award (1984)
- Cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Alfred, according to the stars
Core essence
Alfred feels the room before entering it. The core of Alfred 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 Alfred, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Alfred wants to be loved
Alfred wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Alfred gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Alfred creates
How Alfred makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Alfred 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: Alfred is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Alfred 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Alfred slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Alfred's birth date. Working below.
Where Alfred sits
Six lines
Alfred’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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 Alfred G. Gilman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Haven 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 New Haven that night
Computed for 41.31°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over New Haven at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
New Haven sits at 41.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New Haven at all: they sit past the −48.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 49% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New Haven, United States
The death is recorded at Dallas, Dallas County in 2015.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alfred G. Gilman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Alfred's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Alfred G. Gilman's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 1, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Alfred G. Gilman was born on July 1, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Alfred G. Gilman's birth date, July 1, 1941, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Alfred’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alfred G. Gilman's date-only chart is Venus sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Alfred G. Gilman combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Alfred’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Virgo or Libra 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
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Alfred’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineMars0.4° to 1.0° orb
Alfred’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
Alfred’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileUranus0.8° to 1.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.1° to 2.7° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.2° to 3.8° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune3.3° to 4.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.6° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.9° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Alfred’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 1°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 29°44′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 3°01′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 23°09′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 12°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mars 0.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.3°
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.9°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.0°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 2.7°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 3.0°
Alfred’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Alfred’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.8°
Born the same day as Alfred
Twyla Tharp was born on July 1, 1941 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 41.3°N, the sky above New Haven stops at −48.7° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Alfred
Other pharmacists
- Louis Ignarro1941
- Tu Youyou1930
- James Black1924
- Gertrude B. Elion1918
- George H. Hitchings1905
- Henri Moissan1852
Born in United States
- Robert KraftAmerican businessman and philanthropist
- Twyla TharpAmerican dancer and choreographer
- Louis IgnarroAmerican physiologist
- Les PayneAmerican journalist
- Bob DylanAmerican singer-songwriter
- Joe RickettsAmerican businessman (born 1941)
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Fellow Cancer suns
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Born in Snake years
- Perry MillerAmerican historian
- George WillAmerican newspaper columnist, journalist, and author
- Robert SchenkkanAmerican playwright, screenwriter, and actor
Also born on July 1
- Diana, Princess of Wales1961
- Pamela Anderson1967
- Liv Tyler1977
- Carl Lewis1961
- Daniel Ricciardo1989
- Tate McRae2003
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Michel duCilleAmerican photojournalist
- Kenneth R. WeissAmerican journalist
- Annie ProulxAmerican novelist, short story and non-fiction author (b. 1935)
Other Cancer Snake charts
- William E. MoernerNobel prize winning American chemical physicist
- Hans SpemannGerman embryologist
- Tracy LettsAmerican actor and screenwriter
- Thomas FriedmanAmerican journalist and author
Other Gilded Pioneers
- Damian LillardAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
- OG AnunobyBritish basketball player (born 1997)
- Karl-Anthony TownsDominican-American basketball player
- Rasheer FlemingAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- O'Cyrus TorrenceAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Tyler SteenAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Jihaad CampbellAmerican football player (born 2004)
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Alfred’s cards
Computed from July 1, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alfred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296423 (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 NIH historic image, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alfred G. Gilman at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alfred G. Gilman.
Quick answers about Alfred G. Gilman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alfred G. Gilman?
- Alfred G. Gilman was a Cancer: born July 1, 1941, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Alfred G. Gilman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 1, 1941 birth.
- What was Alfred G. Gilman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alfred G. Gilman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Alfred G. Gilman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alfred G. Gilman's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
