Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock (born June 16, 1902, Hartford, United States; died 1992), was an American scientist and cytogeneticist. McClintock's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer and Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.
Barbara McClintock’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Tiger, with 
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Barbara McClintock’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Barbara in the U.S.?
#968
US rank in 2025
~1,440,831
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Barbara’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Barbara, according to the stars
Core essence
Barbara is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Barbara needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Barbara feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Barbara needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Barbara wants to be loved
Barbara wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Barbara is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Barbara creates
How Barbara makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Barbara creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Barbara is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Barbara 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Barbara scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Barbara's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Barbara sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Barbara McClintock in 15 seconds
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Barbara McClintock's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 16, 1902, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Water Tiger
Water TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Barbara McClintock was born on June 16, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Barbara McClintock's birth date, June 16, 1902, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Barbara’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Barbara McClintock's date-only chart is Uranus opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
- Barbara McClintock combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Barbara’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Barbara McClintock, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Scorpio 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.
stableUranusoppositionPluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Barbara’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
Barbara’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.0° orb
Barbara’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareJupiter2.1° to 3.3° orb
Barbara’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.9° to 4.3° orb
Barbara’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableSunoppositionUranus5.0° to 6.0° orb
Barbara’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionPluto5.8° to 6.7° orb
Barbara’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.9° to 6.8° orb
Barbara’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 2.2° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 4.2° to 16.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Barbara’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 12°50′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Barbara is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresGemini 24°02′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Barbara feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosTaurus 10°25′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Barbara wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 16°51′ (moves 0.30° 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. Barbara is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 14°17′ (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 Barbara 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 square Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 0.6°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile 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°).
Barbara’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Barbara 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 Barbara’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.
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mars, PlutoThree 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 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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.5°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Barbara McClintock, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Barbara’s cards
Every card is computed from June 16, 1902, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Barbara McClintock, 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
Barbara’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q199654, 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 Smithsonian Institution/Science Service; Restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barbara McClintock at Wikipedia.
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 Barbara McClintock.
Quick answers about Barbara McClintock’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Barbara McClintock?
- Barbara McClintock was a Gemini: born June 16, 1902, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger.
- What was Barbara McClintock's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 16, 1902 birth.
- What time was Barbara McClintock 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 was Barbara McClintock's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the June 16, 1902 birth date.
- What was Barbara McClintock's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 16, 1902 birth date.
- Where was Barbara McClintock's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Barbara McClintock's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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