Barry C. Barish
Barry C. Barish (born January 27, 1936, Omaha, United States), aged 90, is an American physicist. Barish is best known for Gravitaatioaalto. Barish's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Henry Draper Medal and National Medal of Science.
Barry C. Barish’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rat, with 
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Barry C. Barish’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Barry in the U.S.?
#1520
US rank in 2025
~182,036
Americans share it since 1880
1962
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Barry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Barry, according to the stars
Core essence
Barry is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Barry is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Barry wants to be loved
Barry wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Barry and watch them fall for you again.
How Barry creates
How Barry makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Barry creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Barry is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Barry is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Barry 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 Barry's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Barry sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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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Barry C. Barish at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Barry C. Barish's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 27, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
Barry C. Barish was born on January 27, 1936, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Barry C. Barish's birth date, January 27, 1936, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Barry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Barry C. Barish's date-only chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Barry C. Barish combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Barry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Barry C. Barish, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.5° to 0.7° orb
Barry’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.9° to 1.9° orb
Barry’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.4° to 2.1° orb
Barry’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableVenustrineUranus2.1° to 3.3° orb
Barry’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareUranus4.5° to 5.5° orb
Barry’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableUranussquarePluto5.6° orb
Barry’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune5.7° to 6.5° orb
Barry’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquareJupiter6.3° to 6.9° orb
Barry’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.7° to 7.9° orb
Barry’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 14.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Barry’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 ℞Gemini 11°06′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Barry turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresScorpio 20°09′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Barry is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosAries 5°55′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Barry is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 2°12′ (moves 0.16° 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. Barry is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 2°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Barry that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 conjunction Uranus 0.5°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.7°
- Chiron square Mars 0.8°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.5°
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°).
Barry’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. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Barry is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Barry’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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 Uranus 0.3°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Barry C. Barish, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Barry
Samuel C. C. Ting was born on January 27, 1936 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Barry’s cards
Every card is computed from January 27, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Barry C. Barish, 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
Barry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15900993, 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 R. Hahn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barry C. Barish 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 Barry C. Barish.
Quick answers about Barry C. Barish’s chart
- How old is Barry C. Barish?
- Barry C. Barish is 90 years old, born January 27, 1936 in Omaha, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Barry C. Barish?
- Barry C. Barish is an Aquarius: born January 27, 1936, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat.
- What is Barry C. Barish's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1936 birth.
- What time was Barry C. Barish 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 Barry C. Barish's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the January 27, 1936 birth date.
- What is Barry C. Barish's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 27, 1936 birth date.
- Where is Barry C. Barish's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Barry C. Barish's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
