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Alfred Hershey

Alfred Hershey (born December 4, 1908, Owosso, United States; died 1997), was an American chemist. Hershey's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and Kimber Genetics Award.

Alfred Hershey’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Alfred Hershey’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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 739 American boys named Alfred in 1908: 38th 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.

8

Expression · direction and scale

7

Soul Urge · understanding

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on A (1) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

7 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold

The record

What sets Alfred apart

Jay-Z (1969) and Tyra Banks (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Alfred, according to the stars

Core essence

Alfred is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Alfred is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Alfred wants to be loved

Alfred wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Alfred even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Alfred creates

How Alfred makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Alfred creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Alfred is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Alfred is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Alfred 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 Alfred's birth date. Working below.

Where Alfred sits

Six lines

Alfred’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Alfred

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alfred

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Alfred

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alfred

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Alfred

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alfred

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Alfred Hershey

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Owosso on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Alfred’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 86.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 59.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Owosso that night

Computed for 43.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Almach stood nearest the zenith over Owosso at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.3° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.

Owosso sits at 43.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 91% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 53° below the horizon.

How unusual Alfred's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet

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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Alfred Hershey in 15 seconds

Sagittarius Sun

Says the quiet part loud.

Alfred Hershey's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 4, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Earth Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Alfred Hershey was born on December 4, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Alfred Hershey's birth date, December 4, 1908, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Alfred’s chart

Alfred’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.3° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.5° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.6° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.7° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.8° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.1° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 3.4° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 5.2° orbSun in Sagittarius · 12°13′☉12°Moon in Taurus · 2°33′☽2°Mercury in Sagittarius · 1°33′☿1°Venus in Scorpio · 7°42′♀7°Mars in Scorpio · 5°59′♂5°Jupiter in Virgo · 13°28′♃13°Saturn in Aries · 3°22′ · retrograde♄℞3°Uranus in Capricorn · 15°03′♅15°Neptune in Cancer · 16°35′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Gemini · 25°04′ · retrograde♇℞25°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.8° to 1.7° orb

    Alfred’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn1.0° to 2.6° orb

    Alfred’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars1.4° to 2.0° orb

    Alfred’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus1.6° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.5° to 14.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 4.0° to 17.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 5.6° to 19.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Alfred’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 19°04′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 8°25′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 5°07′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 28°29′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 7°32′ (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 sextile Venus 0.2°
  • Eros sextile Mars 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.5°
  • Eros square Saturn 1.7°
  • Eros sextile Venus 2.6°

Alfred’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♂ Mars2 pts

    disposes Saturn; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Alfred’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.5°

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Alfred’s cards

Computed from December 4, 1908. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alfred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q271703 (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 Alfred Hershey 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 Hershey.

Quick answers about Alfred Hershey’s chart

What zodiac sign was Alfred Hershey?
Alfred Hershey was a Sagittarius: born December 4, 1908, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Alfred Hershey's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 4, 1908 birth.
What was Alfred Hershey's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Alfred Hershey's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Alfred Hershey's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Alfred Hershey's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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