Arthur Ashkin
Arthur Ashkin (born September 2, 1922, Brooklyn, United States; died 2020), was an American physicist. Ashkin's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Inventors Hall of Fame and IEEE Fellow.
Arthur Ashkin’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Arthur
Arthur Ashkin’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Arthur in the U.S.?
#87
US rank in 2025
~551,930
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 10,114 American boys and 55 girls named Arthur in 1922: 19th among boys and 1,008th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Arthur’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
5
Soul Urge · freedom
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Arthur’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
The record
What sets Arthur apart
Keir Starmer (1962) and Keanu Reeves (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Arthur, according to the stars
Core essence
Arthur 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 Arthur is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Arthur wants to be loved
Arthur 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. Arthur gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Arthur creates
How Arthur makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Arthur creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Arthur is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Arthur is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Arthur 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 Arthur's birth date. Working below.
Where Arthur sits
Six lines
Arthur’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Arthur Ashkin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Vega, in Lyra, 86.5° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon up and 90% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Arthur's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Libra · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Arthur Ashkin's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 2, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Arthur Ashkin was born on September 2, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Arthur Ashkin's birth date, September 2, 1922, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Arthur’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Arthur Ashkin's date-only chart is Uranus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Arthur Ashkin combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Arthur’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableVenussextileMars0.6° to 1.2° orb
Arthur’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableUranustrinePluto0.8° orb
Arthur’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextilePluto1.1° to 2.0° orb
Arthur’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunoppositionUranus1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.0° to 2.2° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn5.4° to 6.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.9° to 6.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter6.1° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 1.9° to 14.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Arthur’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 16°43′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 12°59′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 25°47′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 8°38′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 26°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.6°
- Hygiea square Sun 0.7°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.3°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.8°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 2.0°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.4°
Arthur’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Arthur’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, SaturnThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 1.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°
More people like Arthur
Other physicists
Born in United States
- Bea ArthurAmerican actress and comedienne
- Kurt VonnegutAmerican author
- Frank Kelly FreasAmerican artist
- Ava GardnerAmerican actress
- Eleanor ParkerAmerican actress
- Ruby DeeAmerican actress
More charts like Arthur’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Montez SweatAmerican football player
- Marcus DavenportAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Jeremy ReavesAmerican football player (born 1996)
Born in Dog years
- Zach WeinersmithAmerican cartoonist
- Donald H. TuckAustralian writer
- John BrunnerBritish author
Also born on September 2
- Keir Starmer1962
- Keanu Reeves1964
- Salma Hayek1966
- Carlos Valderrama1961
- Katt Williams1973
- Damson Idris1991
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Raven-SymonéAmerican actress, singer, and songwriter
- Nicolas BatumFrench basketball player
- Hayley KiyokoAmerican actress
Other Virgo Dog charts
- Zona GaleAmerican author and playwright
- Frank Kelly FreasAmerican artist
- Abdülkerim BardakçıTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Rigoberto SanchezAmerican football punter
Other Tidal Seekers
- Freddie MercuryBritish singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen
- Johnny DeppAmerican actor
- Pierre CurieFrench physicist
- J. M. CoetzeeSouth African and Australian writer and scholar
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Conchita WurstAustrian singer and drag queen
- LordeNew Zealand singer, songwriter and producer
- Måns ZelmerlöwSwedish singer and television presenter
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Arthur’s cards
Computed from September 2, 1922. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Arthur’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q708472 (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 Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Arthur Ashkin at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Arthur Ashkin.
Quick answers about Arthur Ashkin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Arthur Ashkin?
- Arthur Ashkin was a Virgo: born September 2, 1922, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Arthur Ashkin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 2, 1922 birth.
- What was Arthur Ashkin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Arthur Ashkin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Arthur Ashkin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Arthur Ashkin's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
