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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Barry
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 1883
1962
its peak year
In 1936, 706 American boys were registered Barry — 185th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Barry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
2
Soul Urge · closeness
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Barry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, 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 Barry apart
Gravitaatioaalto. That is the work the name is attached to.
The schooling ran through John Marshall High School and University of California, Berkeley.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Los Feliz, Los Angeles, Scientists from California and Gravitational-wave astronomers.
Samuel C. C. Ting 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.
- Known for
- Gravitaatioaalto
- Educated at
- John Marshall High School and University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2017), National Medal of Science (2022) and Henry Draper Medal (2017)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
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. Working below.
Where Barry sits
Six lines
Barry’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 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.
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 Barry C. Barish
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Omaha 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 Omaha that night
Computed for 41.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Omaha was Capella, in Auriga, 84.9° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
Omaha sits at 41.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Omaha at all: they sit past the −48.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 19% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 38° down.
How unusual Barry's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Jupiter
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 →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunsquareUranus4.5° to 5.5° orb
stableUranussquarePluto5.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune5.7° to 6.5° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter6.3° to 6.9° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.7° to 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 11°06′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 20°09′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 5°55′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 2°12′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 2°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.5°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.7°
- Chiron square Mars 0.8°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.5°
Barry’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Barry’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Born the same day as Barry
Samuel C. C. Ting was born on January 27, 1936 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 41.3°N, the sky above Omaha stops at −48.7° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Barry
Other physicists
- Gerhard Ertl1936
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji1933
- Sidney Altman1939
- Walter Gilbert1932
- Samuel C. C. Ting1936
- John Hopfield1933
Born in United States
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Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
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Famous people with Life Path 11
- Stephen ColbertAmerican comedian and writer
- Chris CornellAmerican musician
- Guy PearceAustralian actor
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Barry’s cards
Computed from January 27, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
11 · Visionary♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Barry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15900993 (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 R. Hahn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
- 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 is Barry C. Barish's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Barry C. Barish's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
