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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, Chinese zodiac is 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

Of the names registered in 1959, Andrew came 58th among boys and 2,291st among girls, carried by 7,089 American boys and 25 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Andrew’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

22

Expression · building at scale

11

Soul Urge · insight

11

Personality · perceptive

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

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Andrew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

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 1959, 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 Andrew apart

Andrew Fire took the Genetics Society of America Medal in 2002, at 43.

The classrooms behind this chart: University of California, Berkeley and Fremont High School.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Andrew Fire: People from Stanford, California, Academics from Palo Alto, California and Fellows of the AACR Academy.

The same date carries Nicholas Kristof. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
University of California, Berkeley, Fremont High School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2006), Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2006) and Canada Gairdner International Award (2005)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
57

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. Working below.

Where Andrew sits

Six lines

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

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

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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 →

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

The sky over Palo Alto that night

Computed for 37.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Palo Alto was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 85.5° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.

From 37.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at last quarter, 68% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Palo Alto, United States
Lives in
Stanford

Wikidata records Stanford as Andrew Fire's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Andrew Fire: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Andrew's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · T-square onto Mercury · 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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If you only read one paragraph

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.

What Taurus means →

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.

What the Pig means →

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.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Andrew’s chart

Andrew’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Capricorn depending on the hour.

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.

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn2.3° to 3.3° orb

  • stableVenussextileUranus2.3° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.6° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars2.9° to 3.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

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

Andrew’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Andrew’s chart

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

  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.7°

Born the same day as Andrew

Nicholas Kristof was born on April 27, 1959 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 37.4°N, the sky above Palo Alto stops at −52.6° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Andrew’s cards

Computed from April 27, 1959. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Andrew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q202152 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Andrew Fire's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Andrew Fire's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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