Baruch Samuel Blumberg
Baruch Samuel Blumberg (born July 28, 1925, Brooklyn, United States; died 2011), was an American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner. Blumberg's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Inventors Hall of Fame and Canada Gairdner International Award.
Baruch Samuel Blumberg’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Baruch
Baruch Samuel Blumberg’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Baruch in the U.S.?
#2260
US rank in 2025
~1,954
Americans share it since 1945
2023
its peak year
Baruch is in US records from 1945, but 1925 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2023.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Baruch’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on B (2) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Baruch’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1925, 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 Baruch apart
Baruch Samuel Blumberg took the Canada Gairdner International Award in 1975, at 50.
Yeshivah of Flatbush and Far Rockaway High School shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Baruch Samuel Blumberg: Masters of Balliol College, Oxford, American astrobiologists and James Madison High School (Brooklyn) alumni.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929) and Harry Kane (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Yeshivah of Flatbush, Far Rockaway High School and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1976), Canada Gairdner International Award (1975) and Croonian Medal and Lecture (1994)
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 66
What the chart says
Baruch, according to the stars
Core essence
Baruch is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Baruch is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Baruch creates
How Baruch makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Baruch creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Baruch is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Baruch 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Baruch fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Baruch's birth date. Working below.
Where Baruch sits
Six lines
Baruch’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening, 74.5° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.
Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon up and 52% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
Wikidata records Brooklyn as Baruch Samuel Blumberg's home, Brooklyn among them.
The death is recorded at Mountain View, Santa Clara County in 2011.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Baruch Samuel Blumberg: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Baruch's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet · No Air planets
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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Baruch Samuel Blumberg's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 28, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Baruch Samuel Blumberg was born on July 28, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Baruch Samuel Blumberg's birth date, July 28, 1925, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Baruch’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Baruch Samuel Blumberg's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Baruch Samuel Blumberg combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Baruch’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.0° to 1.6° orb
Baruch’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.5° to 1.8° orb
Baruch’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.6° to 1.8° orb
Baruch’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableSunsquareSaturn2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 4.2° to 17.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 4.6° to 17.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Baruch’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 28°22′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 11°07′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 1°11′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 1°37′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 24°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.3°
- Eros sextile Venus 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.6°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.1°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.2°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.5°
Baruch’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Baruch’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 1.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.9°
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Baruch’s cards
Computed from July 28, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Baruch’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q105830 (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 Tom Trower (NASA), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Baruch Samuel Blumberg’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Baruch Samuel Blumberg?
- Baruch Samuel Blumberg was a Leo: born July 28, 1925, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Baruch Samuel Blumberg's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 28, 1925 birth.
- What was Baruch Samuel Blumberg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Baruch Samuel Blumberg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Baruch Samuel Blumberg's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Baruch Samuel Blumberg's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
