Arieh Warshel
Arieh Warshel (born November 20, 1940, Sde Nahum, Israel), aged 85, is a Chemist, biochemist and biophysicist. Warshel's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and honorary doctor of the University of Tromso.
Arieh Warshel’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Arieh
Arieh Warshel’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Arieh in the U.S.?
#8973
US rank in 2025
~107
Americans share it since 1992
2023
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Arieh falls under that line for 1940. Its peak came in 2023, and 107 Americans have carried it since 1992.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Arieh’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on A (1) and closes on H (8).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Arieh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, 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 Arieh apart
Arieh Warshel took the Tolman Award in 2003, at 63.
Training came by way of Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and Weizmann Institute of Science.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Arieh Warshel: Israeli military officers, Jewish Israeli military personnel and Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
Joe Biden (1942) and Nadine Gordimer (1923) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and Weizmann Institute of Science
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012) and Tolman Award (2003)
- Citizenship
- United States and Israel
- Languages
- English and Hebrew
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
What the chart says
Arieh, according to the stars
Core essence
Arieh does not do surface. The core of Arieh is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Arieh is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Arieh wants to be loved
Arieh wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Arieh gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Arieh creates
How Arieh 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. Arieh 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: Arieh is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Arieh is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Computed from Arieh's birth date. Working below.
Where Arieh sits
Six lines
Arieh’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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
Dedicate a star to Arieh Warshel
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sde Nahum on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Sde Nahum that night
Computed for 32.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Sde Nahum at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 4.9° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 97 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 32.5°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 −57.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 71% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 43° below the horizon.
How unusual Arieh's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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 →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Arieh Warshel's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 20, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Arieh Warshel was born on November 20, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Arieh Warshel's birth date, November 20, 1940, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Arieh’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Arieh Warshel's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Arieh Warshel combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Arieh’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonsquareMars0.1° to 6.9° orb
Arieh’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.2° to 1.1° orb
Arieh’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.6° to 1.7° orb
Arieh’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.3° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus3.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.2° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb
stableSuntrinePluto5.9° to 6.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars7.0° to 7.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Arieh’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 1°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 19°39′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 24°57′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 22°12′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 18°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Uranus 1.0°
- Chiron square Mars 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.8°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.3°
- Eros square Venus 2.5°
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 2.8°
- Eros sextile Sun 3.0°
Arieh’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Arieh’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 semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Arieh’s cards
Computed from November 20, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Arieh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4790366 (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 Tomasz A. Wesolowski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Arieh Warshel at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Arieh Warshel.
Quick answers about Arieh Warshel’s chart
- How old is Arieh Warshel?
- Arieh Warshel is 85 years old, born November 20, 1940 in Sde Nahum, Israel.
- What zodiac sign is Arieh Warshel?
- Arieh Warshel is a Scorpio: born November 20, 1940, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Arieh Warshel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 20, 1940 birth.
- What is Arieh Warshel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Arieh Warshel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Arieh Warshel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Arieh Warshel's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
