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Arthur B. McDonald

Arthur B. McDonald (born August 29, 1943, Sydney, Canada), aged 83, is a Canadian physicist (born 1943). McDonald's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of Ontario and Order of Nova Scotia.

Arthur B. McDonald’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Arthur B. McDonald’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, 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

Of the names registered in 1943, Arthur came 30th among boys and 1,252nd among girls, carried by 7,785 American boys and 42 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Arthur’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

11

Soul Urge · insight

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 4: voice against craft.

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

9 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white

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 1943, 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 Arthur apart

Arthur B. McDonald took the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2007, at 64.

The classrooms behind this chart: Dalhousie University and Sydney Academy.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Arthur B. McDonald: People from Sydney, Nova Scotia, Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston and Canadian astrophysicists.

Michael Jackson (1958) and Liam Payne (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Dalhousie University, Sydney Academy and California Institute of Technology
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (2015), Benjamin Franklin Medal (2007) and Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016)
Citizenship
Canada
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
66

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.

The vibe

Underneath, Arthur needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Arthur needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Arthur wants to be loved

Arthur 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 Arthur and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Arthur creates

How Arthur 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. Arthur 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: Arthur is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Arthur 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.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Arthur scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Arthur

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Arthur

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Arthur

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Arthur

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

PracticalVisionary
Arthur

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Arthur

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 Arthur B. McDonald

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

Arthur’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 82.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 12.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Sydney that night

Computed for 46.14°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sydney was Vega, in Lyra, 82.5° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 46.1°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −43.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 12° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Sydney, Canada
Lives in
Kingston

Wikidata records Kingston as Arthur B. McDonald'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 Arthur B. McDonald: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Arthur's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · No Water planets

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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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

Arthur B. McDonald's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 29, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Water Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Arthur B. McDonald was born on August 29, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Arthur B. McDonald's birth date, August 29, 1943, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Arthur’s chart

Arthur’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Mars · Trine, 0.5° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.8° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 2.3° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.3° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.9° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun in Virgo · 5°24′☉5°Moon in Leo · 22°12′☽22°Mercury in Libra · 2°35′☿2°Venus in Virgo · 16°49′ · retrograde♀℞16°Mars in Gemini · 3°06′♂3°Jupiter in Leo · 13°03′♃13°Saturn in Gemini · 25°08′♄25°Uranus in Gemini · 8°44′♅8°Neptune in Libra · 0°49′♆0°Pluto in Leo · 7°41′♇7°

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

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

  • stableMercurytrineMars0.3° to 0.7° orb

    Arthur’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.1° orb

    Arthur’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune1.3° to 2.2° orb

    Arthur’s mind and imagination act as one.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune2.0° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars2.1° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus2.9° to 3.8° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus4.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto4.3° to 4.8° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto5.3° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.4° to 5.9° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus5.7° to 6.6° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

Arthur’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo 4°32′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 25°49′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 4°27′ (moves 0.81° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 13°35′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 10°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Saturn 0.7°
  • Chiron conjunction Sun 0.9°
  • Eros trine Mars 1.3°
  • Chiron square Mars 1.4°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 2.3°

Arthur’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Arthur’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else

Arthur’s cards

Computed from August 29, 1943. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Arthur’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q710597 (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, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Arthur B. McDonald at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Arthur B. McDonald.

Quick answers about Arthur B. McDonald’s chart

How old is Arthur B. McDonald?
Arthur B. McDonald is 83 years old, born August 29, 1943 in Sydney, Canada.
What zodiac sign is Arthur B. McDonald?
Arthur B. McDonald is a Virgo: born August 29, 1943, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Arthur B. McDonald's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 29, 1943 birth.
What is Arthur B. McDonald's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Arthur B. McDonald's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Arthur B. McDonald's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Arthur B. McDonald's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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