Bernardo Houssay
Bernardo Houssay (born April 10, 1887, Buenos Aires, Argentina; died 1971), was an Argentine physician. Houssay's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise.
Bernardo Houssay’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Bernardo
Bernardo Houssay’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Bernardo in the U.S.?
#1347
US rank in 2025
~11,175
Americans share it since 1888
1995
its peak year
US records hold Bernardo from 1888 onward, though not for 1887 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1995 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bernardo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on B (2) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Bernardo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
The record
What sets Bernardo apart
Bernardo Houssay took the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947, at 60.
Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Buenos Aires and National School of Buenos Aires shaped the training.
The grave is at La Chacarita Cemetery.
On the family side, Bernardo Houssay was married María Angélica Catán.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Bernardo Houssay: Argentine medical doctors, Medical doctors from Buenos Aires and Diabetologists.
Sadio Mané (1992) and Omar Sharif (1932) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Buenos Aires and National School of Buenos Aires
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1947), Guggenheim Fellowship (1957) and Banting Medal (1963)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Buried at
- La Chacarita Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Argentina
- Languages
- Spanish
- Wikipedia editions
- 64
What the chart says
Bernardo, according to the stars
Core essence
Bernardo leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Bernardo is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Bernardo wants to be loved
Bernardo 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 Bernardo is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Bernardo creates
How Bernardo makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Bernardo creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Bernardo is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Bernardo 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Bernardo gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Bernardo's birth date. Working below.
Where Bernardo sits
Six lines
Bernardo’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Bernardo Houssay
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Buenos Aires 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 Buenos Aires that night
Computed for 34.60°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Suhail stood nearest the zenith over Buenos Aires at 9 p.m. that evening, 73.7° above the horizon in Vela.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
At 34.6°S there are stars that never set at all. Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman stay up year round.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon up and 89% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
The death is recorded at Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1971.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Bernardo Houssay: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Bernardo's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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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Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Bernardo Houssay's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 10, 1887, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Pig
Fire PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Bernardo Houssay was born on April 10, 1887, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Bernardo Houssay's birth date, April 10, 1887, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Bernardo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bernardo Houssay's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Bernardo Houssay combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Bernardo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.9° to 1.4° orb
Bernardo’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.2° to 3.4° orb
Bernardo’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.8° to 4.6° orb
Bernardo’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareSaturn3.9° to 4.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.7° to 5.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.0° to 6.1° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.4° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.9° to 15.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 1.2° to 15.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Bernardo’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 19°37′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 21°46′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Libra 1°58′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 8°33′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 26°32′ (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 sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Eros trine Pluto 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.9°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.5°
Bernardo’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Bernardo’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.
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.5°
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Bernardo’s cards
Computed from April 10, 1887. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bernardo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q237160 (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 unknow (uploader Claudio Elias), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bernardo Houssay at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bernardo Houssay.
Quick answers about Bernardo Houssay’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Bernardo Houssay?
- Bernardo Houssay was an Aries: born April 10, 1887, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Bernardo Houssay's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 10, 1887 birth.
- What was Bernardo Houssay's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Bernardo Houssay's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Bernardo Houssay's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Bernardo Houssay's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
