Baruj Benacerraf
Baruj Benacerraf (born October 29, 1920, Caracas, Venezuela; died 2011), was a Venezuelan-American immunologist. Benacerraf's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Medal of Science and honorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-II.
Baruj Benacerraf’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Baruj
Baruj Benacerraf’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
What Baruj’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on B (2) and closes on J (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Baruj’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1920, 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 Baruj apart
Baruj Benacerraf took the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980, at 60.
The classrooms behind this chart: Columbia University School of General Studies and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine.
Cause of death is recorded as pneumonia.
Baruj Benacerraf was raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Baruj Benacerraf under Mizrahi Jews, American people of Algerian-Jewish descent and Columbia Medical School faculty.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938) and Winona Ryder (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Columbia University School of General Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and Columbia University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1980), National Medal of Science (1990) and honorary doctor of Harvard University (1992)
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Citizenship
- United States and Venezuela
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 62
What the chart says
Baruj, according to the stars
Core essence
Baruj does not do surface. The core of Baruj is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Baruj is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Baruj wants to be loved
Baruj 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 Baruj and watch them fall for you again.
How Baruj creates
How Baruj makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Baruj 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: Baruj is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Baruj is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Baruj does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Baruj's birth date. Working below.
Where Baruj sits
Six lines
Baruj’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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Baruj Benacerraf
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Caracas 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 Caracas that night
Computed for 10.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Caracas was Markab, in Pegasus, 80.7° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 10.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 92% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Caracas, Venezuela
The death is recorded at Boston, Suffolk County in 2011.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Baruj Benacerraf: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Baruj's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Uranus · 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.
Score your own chart →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Baruj Benacerraf's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 29, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Baruj Benacerraf was born on October 29, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Baruj Benacerraf's birth date, October 29, 1920, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Baruj’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Baruj Benacerraf's date-only chart is Mars opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Baruj Benacerraf combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Baruj’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMarsoppositionPluto0.3° to 1.0° orb
Baruj’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareUranus2.0° to 2.8° orb
Baruj’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileMars2.1° to 2.3° orb
Baruj’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableSuntrinePluto2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableSuntrineUranus3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.3° to 5.5° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter4.3° to 4.8° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.5° to 6.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.1° to 7.6° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Baruj’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°59′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 9°31′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 7°38′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 26°23′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 11°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Venus 0.3°
- Eros sextile Mars 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Chiron square Mars 1.2°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.2°
- Ceres opposition Mars 1.3°
- Eros conjunction Sun 1.7°
- Chiron square Pluto 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 3.0°
Baruj’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Baruj’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 Saturn 0.1°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.2°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.1°
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on October 29
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf1938
- Winona Ryder1971
- Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah1952
- Ma Huateng1971
- Joe Amabile1986
- Beth Chapman1967
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- Jenna JamesonAmerican pornographic actress
- Kevin JamesAmerican comedian and actor
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- Tracy MorganAmerican actor and comedian
Other Gilded Guardians
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- Victoria MonétAmerican singer and songwriter
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- Mike Adenuga
Famous people with Life Path 6
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Baruj’s cards
Computed from October 29, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Baruj’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234701 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Baruj Benacerraf at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Baruj Benacerraf.
Quick answers about Baruj Benacerraf’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Baruj Benacerraf?
- Baruj Benacerraf was a Scorpio: born October 29, 1920, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Baruj Benacerraf's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 29, 1920 birth.
- What was Baruj Benacerraf's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Baruj Benacerraf's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Baruj Benacerraf's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Baruj Benacerraf's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
