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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Aziz
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 1972
2024
its peak year
Aziz is in US records from 1972, but 1946 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2024.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Aziz’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 Z (8). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Aziz’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Aziz apart
Bernie Sanders (1941) and Avicii (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Aziz sits
Six lines
Aziz’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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Aziz Sancar
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Savur district 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 Savur district that night
Computed for 37.54°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Savur district was Sadr, in Cygnus, 84.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
Savur district sits at 37.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 92% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.
How unusual Aziz's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Venus · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° 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
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
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter4.3° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.9° to 5.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.6° to 6.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter7.3° to 7.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 21°13′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 29°27′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 14°49′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 1°16′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 13°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Aziz’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Aziz’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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
More people like Aziz
Other scientists
- Mo Ibrahim1946
- Giorgio Parisi1948
- Serge Haroche1944
- Reinhard Genzel1952
- Richard Smalley1943
- Bruce Beutler1957
Born in Turkey
- Çetin TekindorTurkish actor (born 1945)
- Şerif SezerTurkish actor (born 1946)
- Kemal SunalTurkish actor
- Tarık AkanTurkish actor and film producer
- Adile NaşitTurkish stage, voice and film actress; comedian, story teller
- Orhan PamukTurkish novelist, academic and Nobel laureate
More charts like Aziz’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Marguerite HigginsAmerican journalist
- Oscar HijuelosAmerican novelist
- Leon EdelCanadian writer
Born in Dog years
- Mel OwensAmerican football player
- Tom PelphreyAmerican actor
- Ana Ortizactress
Also born on September 8
- Bernie Sanders1941
- Avicii1989
- Pink1979
- Wiz Khalifa1987
- Gaten Matarazzo2002
- David Arquette1971
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Cam LewisAmerican football cornerback
- Luke McCaffreyAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Brittain BrownAmerican football player
Other Virgo Dog charts
- Abdülkerim BardakçıTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Rigoberto SanchezAmerican football punter
- Troy ReederAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Evan EngramAmerican football player (born 1994)
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Brandon MillerAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Isaiah JoeAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Sam HauserAmerican basketball player
- Thomas BryantAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
Famous people with Life Path 1
- David Brion DavisAmerican historian
- Bruce NorrisAmerican playwright and actor
- Arnaldo CortesiAmerican journalist and foreign correspondent
From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Aziz’s cards
Computed from September 8, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Aziz’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15118973 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Aziz Sancar's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Aziz Sancar's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
