Allan McLeod Cormack
Allan McLeod Cormack (born February 23, 1924, Johannesburg, South Africa; died 1998), was an American physicist. Cormack's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Order of Mapungubwe in Gold and National Medal of Science.
Allan McLeod Cormack’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Allan
Allan McLeod Cormack’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Allan in the U.S.?
#1013
US rank in 2025
~96,711
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1924, Allan came 201st among boys and 5,091st among girls, carried by 692 American boys and 5 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Allan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
2
Soul Urge · closeness
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Allan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Rose-gold · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1924, 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 Allan apart
Allan McLeod Cormack took the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1979, at 55.
Rondebosch Boys' High School and University of Cape Town shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as cancer.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Allan McLeod Cormack: Alumni of Rondebosch Boys' High School, Recipients of the Order of Mapungubwe and Academics from Johannesburg.
Emily Blunt (1983) and Casemiro (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Rondebosch Boys' High School, University of Cape Town and St John's College
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1979), National Medal of Science (1990) and Order of Mapungubwe in Gold (2002)
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Citizenship
- United States and South Africa
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 63
What the chart says
Allan, according to the stars
Core essence
Allan feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Allan is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Allan cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Allan needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Allan wants to be loved
Allan wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Allan creates
How Allan makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Allan creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Allan is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Allan 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Allan has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Allan's birth date. Working below.
Where Allan sits
Six lines
Allan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Johannesburg on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Johannesburg that night
Computed for 26.20°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Wezen stood nearest the zenith over Johannesburg at 9 p.m. that evening, 89.2° above the horizon in Canis Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.
From 26.2°S not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 88% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 29° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Johannesburg, South Africa
The death is recorded at Winchester, South East England in 1998.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Allan McLeod Cormack: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Allan's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · T-square onto Pluto · No Earth planets
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 →The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Allan McLeod Cormack's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 23, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Wood Rat
Wood RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Allan McLeod Cormack was born on February 23, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Allan McLeod Cormack's birth date, February 23, 1924, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Allan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Allan McLeod Cormack's date-only chart is Jupiter square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- Allan McLeod Cormack combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Allan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextileVenus0.5° to 0.8° orb
Allan’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.5° orb
Allan’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn0.8° to 1.8° orb
Allan’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquarePluto1.3° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune1.3° to 1.5° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.2° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.6° to 5.0° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter4.4° to 5.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune4.9° to 6.4° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.2° to 5.7° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune5.7° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Allan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 17°54′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 12°40′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 2°47′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 29°24′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 26°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.6°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.7°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.7°
- Eros trine Sun 0.7°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.2°
Allan’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter9.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Allan’s chart
Kite · Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, MercuryA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.0°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.6°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.9°
More people like Allan
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Born in South Africa
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- F. W. de Klerk7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994
- Sydney BrennerSouth African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
- Ivan Glasenbergformer CEO of Glencore International
- J. M. CoetzeeSouth African and Australian writer and scholar
- Max TheilerSouth African-American virologist and doctor
More charts like Allan’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Lupita Nyong'oKenyan-Mexican actress and film director
- Riyad MahrezAlgerian-French footballer
- Nat King ColeAmerican singer and jazz pianist
Born in Rat years
- Mary Tyler MooreAmerican actress and television producer
- Mervyn LeRoyAmerican film director and producer
- Maurice ChevalierFrench singer, actor, and entertainer
Also born on February 23
- Emily Blunt1983
- Casemiro1992
- Michael Dell1965
- Samara Weaving1992
- Dakota Fanning1994
- Aziz Ansari1983
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Jack CochraneAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Elijah WilkinsonAmerican football offensive tackle
- D. J. ReedAmerican football player (born 1996)
Other Pisces Rat charts
- Billy CrystalAmerican actor, comedian, writer, producer, director and television presenter (born 1948)
- Dane CookAmerican actor and comedian
- Haylie DuffAmerican actress and singer
- Mark HoppusAmerican musician and record producer
Other Tidal Explorers
- Bill CassidyAmerican physician and politician (born 1957)
- Xavier Becerra25th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Andrew WilsonAmerican actor
- Art MalikBritish actor
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Emery JonesAmerican football player
- Rakeem Nunez-RochesAmerican football player
- Matt GayAmerican football player (born 1994)
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Allan’s cards
Computed from February 23, 1924. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Allan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223542 (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 Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Allan McLeod Cormack’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Allan McLeod Cormack?
- Allan McLeod Cormack was a Pisces: born February 23, 1924, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Allan McLeod Cormack's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 23, 1924 birth.
- What was Allan McLeod Cormack's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Allan McLeod Cormack's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Allan McLeod Cormack's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Allan McLeod Cormack's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mars; 5 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
