Avram Hershko
Avram Hershko (born December 31, 1937, Karcag, Hungary), aged 88, is an Israeli biochemist. Hershko's honours include E. B. Wilson Medal, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize.
Avram Hershko’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Avram
Avram Hershko’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Avram in the U.S.?
#4559
US rank in 2025
~937
Americans share it since 1950
2015
its peak year
US records hold Avram from 1950 onward, though not for 1937 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2015 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Avram’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on A (1) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Avram’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1937, 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 Avram apart
The Israel Prize came in 1994, when Avram Hershko was 57.
Study took Avram Hershko to Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
On Wikipedia the categories read Israel Prize in biochemistry recipients, Hungarian biochemists and Israeli people of Hungarian-Jewish descent.
Anthony Hopkins 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
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004), Israel Prize (1994) and Wolf Prize in Medicine (2001)
- Citizenship
- Hungary and Israel
- Languages
- English and Hebrew
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
What the chart says
Avram, according to the stars
Core essence
Avram is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Avram is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Avram wants to be loved
Avram wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Avram you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Avram creates
How Avram makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Avram creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Avram is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Avram 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Avram slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Avram's birth date. Working below.
Where Avram sits
Six lines
Avram’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.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Karcag 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 Karcag that night
Computed for 47.32°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Karcag at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirfak of Perseus, within 7.5° of the exact zenith.
Of the 109 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Karcag sits at 47.3°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −42.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Karcag on any night.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual Avram's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · No Fire planets · 2 planets 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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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Avram Hershko's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 31, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Avram Hershko was born on December 31, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Avram Hershko's birth date, December 31, 1937, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Avram’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Avram Hershko's date-only chart is Saturn trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Avram Hershko combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Avram’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 0° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Avram’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileMars0.1° to 2.2° orb
Avram’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrinePluto0.3° orb
Avram’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.3° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsextileMars1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.0° to 4.4° orb
stableMarssextileUranus2.1° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.0° to 4.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.3° to 3.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.8° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Avram’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 27°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 2°60′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 7°21′
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra or Virgo during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mars 0.0°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.9°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.0°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.5°
Avram’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Avram’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.6°
Born the same day as Avram
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 47.3°N, Karcag keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Ox years
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- Anthony Hopkins1937
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- Hunter Schafer1998
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- Murat ÜlkerTurkish businessperson (born 1959)
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- Harold Russellfilm and television actor
Other Tidal Visionarys
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- Drew SampleAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Cole ChristiansenAmerican football player (born 1997)
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Avram’s cards
Computed from December 31, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Avram’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232302 (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 Sharon Gabay, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Avram Hershko at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Avram Hershko’s chart
- How old is Avram Hershko?
- Avram Hershko is 88 years old, born December 31, 1937 in Karcag, Hungary.
- What zodiac sign is Avram Hershko?
- Avram Hershko is a Capricorn: born December 31, 1937, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Avram Hershko's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 31, 1937 birth.
- What is Avram Hershko's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Avram Hershko's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Avram Hershko's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Avram Hershko's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
