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Andrew Grove

Andrew Grove (born September 2, 1936, Budapest, Hungary; died 2016), was a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author. Grove served as president and président-directeur général. Grove's honours include Time Person of the Year, California Hall of Fame and Great Immigrants Award.

Andrew Grove’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

Your match with Andrew

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Andrew Grove’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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

The SSA recorded 2,276 American boys and 12 girls named Andrew in 1936: 83rd among boys and 2,388th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Andrew’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

7

Personality · composed, private

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

3 · 2

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1936, 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

The J. J. Ebers Award came in 1974, when Andrew Grove was 38.

Andrew Grove was taught at University of California, Berkeley and City University of New York.

Cause of death is recorded as Parkinson's disease.

Gwyn Thomas 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
University of California, Berkeley and City University of New York
Awards
Time Person of the Year (1997), IEEE Medal of Honor (2000) and California Hall of Fame (2009)
Cause of death
Parkinson's disease
Citizenship
United States and Hungary
Languages
English and Hungarian
Wikipedia editions
38

What the chart says

Andrew, according to the stars

Core essence

Andrew notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Andrew is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Andrew wants to be loved

Andrew wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Andrew and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Andrew creates

How Andrew makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Andrew creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Andrew 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Andrew is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Andrew fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Andrew

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

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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Andrew Grove

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

Andrew’s birth-night reference starFawarisblue-white · CygnusFawaris, in Cygnus. A blue-white star, 85.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Fawaris →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 10.7° 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 Budapest that night

Computed for 47.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Budapest at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.7° above the horizon in Cygnus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.

At 47.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Budapest at all: they sit past the −42.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 24° down.

How unusual Andrew's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Jupiter · 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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Virgo Sun

Standards nobody else can meet.

Andrew Grove's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 2, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Fire Rat

Resourceful is an understatement.

Andrew Grove was born on September 2, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 3

Creative, loud, warm.

Andrew Grove's birth date, September 2, 1936, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 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 15° to 0° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.3° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.5° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.9° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.9° orbSaturn faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.6° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.5° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 4.9° orbSun in Virgo · 9°46′☉9°Moon in Pisces · 22°42′☽22°Mercury in Libra · 6°39′☿6°Venus in Virgo · 27°35′♀27°Mars in Leo · 14°47′♂14°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 15°19′♃15°Saturn in Pisces · 19°51′ · retrograde♄℞19°Uranus in Taurus · 9°27′ · retrograde♅℞9°Neptune in Virgo · 16°15′♆16°Pluto in Cancer · 28°06′♇28°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Andrew’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussextilePluto0.0° to 1.1° orb

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

  • stableMarstrineJupiter0.3° to 0.8° orb

    Andrew’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune3.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus5.0° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.1° to 6.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.9° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune6.8° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 14.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

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

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 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.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 22°52′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 26°06′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 14°15′ (moves 0.78° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 5°38′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 26°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 1.0°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.6°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 2.0°

Andrew’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Andrew’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Neptune, JupiterAn 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.

  • Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.1°
  • Mars biquintile Saturn 0.9°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°

Born the same day as Andrew

Gwyn Thomas was born on September 2, 1936 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Budapest, at 47.5°N, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.

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Andrew’s cards

Computed from September 2, 1936. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Andrew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q432929 (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 World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Andrew Grove at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Andrew Grove.

Quick answers about Andrew Grove’s chart

What zodiac sign was Andrew Grove?
Andrew Grove was a Virgo: born September 2, 1936, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Andrew Grove's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 2, 1936 birth.
What was Andrew Grove's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Andrew Grove's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Andrew Grove's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Andrew Grove's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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