Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar (born September 8, 1946, Savur district, Turkey), aged 80, is a Turkish geneticist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015. Sancar's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Presidential Young Investigator Award and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Aziz Sancar’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Dog, with 
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Aziz Sancar’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Aziz in the U.S.?
#2008
US rank in 2025
~1,849
Americans share it since 1880
2024
its peak year
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Aziz’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Aziz, according to the stars
Core essence
Aziz 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 Aziz is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Aziz needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Aziz needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Aziz wants to be loved
Aziz wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Aziz even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Aziz creates
How Aziz makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Aziz creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Aziz 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Aziz is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Aziz leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Aziz fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Aziz's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Aziz sits
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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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Aziz Sancar at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Aziz Sancar's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 8, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Aziz Sancar was born on September 8, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Aziz Sancar's birth date, September 8, 1946, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Aziz’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Aziz Sancar's date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of about 3°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Aziz Sancar combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Aziz’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Aziz Sancar, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoontrineNeptune0.0° to 6.9° orb
Aziz’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineUranus2.2° to 2.8° orb
Aziz’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.7° to 3.5° orb
Aziz’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
Aziz’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter4.3° to 5.1° orb
Aziz’s affections and growth act as one.
stableJupitertrineUranus4.9° to 5.1° orb
Aziz’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb
Aziz’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.6° to 6.6° orb
Aziz’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter7.3° to 7.8° orb
Aziz’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.9° to 12.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Aziz’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironLibra 21°13′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Aziz is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 29°27′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Aziz caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCancer 14°49′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Aziz is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 1°16′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Aziz is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 13°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Aziz leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.1°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.3°
- Chiron trine Uranus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.6°
- Ceres square Venus 1.9°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 2.1°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Aziz’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Aziz is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Aziz’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Aziz Sancar, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Aziz’s cards
Every card is computed from September 8, 1946, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Aziz Sancar, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Aziz’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15118973, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Aziz Sancar at Wikipedia, sancar.org and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Aziz Sancar.
Quick answers about Aziz Sancar’s chart
- How old is Aziz Sancar?
- Aziz Sancar is 80 years old, born September 8, 1946 in Savur district, Turkey.
- What zodiac sign is Aziz Sancar?
- Aziz Sancar is a Virgo: born September 8, 1946, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog.
- What is Aziz Sancar's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 8, 1946 birth.
- What time was Aziz Sancar born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Aziz Sancar's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the September 8, 1946 birth date.
- What is Aziz Sancar's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 8, 1946 birth date.
- Where is Aziz Sancar's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Aziz Sancar's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
