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Andrew Fire

Andrew Fire (born April 27, 1959, Palo Alto, United States), aged 67, is an American biologist. Fire's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize and Massry Prize.

Andrew Fire’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Andrew Fire’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Andrew in the U.S.?

#73

US rank in 2025

~1,334,415

Americans share it since 1880

1987

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Andrew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

White · Blush · Gold

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Andrew, according to the stars

Core essence

Andrew is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Andrew is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Andrew is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Andrew needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Andrew wants to be loved

Andrew wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Andrew like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Andrew creates

How Andrew makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Andrew creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Andrew is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Andrew is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Andrew leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Andrew does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Andrew's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Andrew sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Andrew

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Andrew

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Andrew

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Andrew

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Andrew

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Andrew

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Andrew Fire

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

Andrew’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 85.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 35.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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Taurus Sun

Try rushing a Taurus. Go on.

Andrew Fire's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 27, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Earth Pig

Trusts easily. Rarely regrets it.

Andrew Fire was born on April 27, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 1

Goes first. Works it out.

Andrew Fire's birth date, April 27, 1959, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Andrew’s chart

Andrew’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Andrew Fire, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Mars · Square, 0.1° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.2° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 0.5° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 0.7° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.2° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.4° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.1° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.5° orbSun in Taurus · 6°46′☉6°Moon in Capricorn · 10°25′☽10°Mercury in Aries · 9°46′☿9°Venus in Gemini · 15°11′♀15°Mars in Cancer · 9°53′♂9°Jupiter in Scorpio · 29°40′ · retrograde♃℞29°Saturn in Capricorn · 6°58′ · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Leo · 12°15′♅12°Neptune in Scorpio · 5°34′ · retrograde♆℞5°Pluto in Virgo · 1°44′ · retrograde♇℞1°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Andrew’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMoonoppositionMars0.0° to 7.3° orb

    Andrew’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 0.3° orb

    Andrew’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb

    Andrew’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.4° orb

    Andrew’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb

    Andrew’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb

    Andrew’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn2.3° to 3.3° orb

    Andrew’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableVenussextileUranus2.3° to 3.5° orb

    Andrew’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.6° to 3.2° orb

    Andrew’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableSunsextileMars2.9° to 3.3° orb

    Andrew’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb

    Andrew’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Andrew’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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 27°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Andrew making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 24°31′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Andrew is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

  • ♡ ErosCancer 12°40′ (moves 0.94° over the day)

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

    Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Andrew is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 24°22′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Andrew needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Andrew is read as immovable on those points.

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.

  • Chiron square Jupiter 2.6°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 2.8°
  • Eros square Mercury 2.9°

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°).

Andrew’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. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars6 pts

    disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Andrew is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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 Andrew’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.

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Sun, Saturn, Pluto, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Sun, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.7°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Andrew Fire, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Andrew

Nicholas Kristof was born on April 27, 1959 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Andrew’s cards

Every card is computed from April 27, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Andrew Fire, 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

Andrew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q202152, 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 Linda A. Cicero / Stanford News Service, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Andrew Fire at Wikipedia and profiles.stanford.edu.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Andrew Fire.

Quick answers about Andrew Fire’s chart

How old is Andrew Fire?
Andrew Fire is 67 years old, born April 27, 1959 in Palo Alto, United States.
What zodiac sign is Andrew Fire?
Andrew Fire is a Taurus: born April 27, 1959, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
What is Andrew Fire's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 27, 1959 birth.
What time was Andrew Fire 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 is Andrew Fire's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the April 27, 1959 birth date.
What is Andrew Fire's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 27, 1959 birth date.
Where is Andrew Fire's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Andrew Fire's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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