Brian Kobilka
Brian Kobilka (born May 30, 1955, Little Falls, United States), aged 71, is an American physiologist. Kobilka's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, John J. Abel Award and Julius Axelrod Award.
Brian Kobilka’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Brian
Brian Kobilka’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Brian in the U.S.?
#339
US rank in 2025
~1,178,298
Americans share it since 1909
1972
its peak year
Brian ranked 40th among boys and 2,283rd among girls in 1955, the year of this birth, with 10,109 American boys and 23 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Brian’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Brian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Lilac · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, 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 Brian apart
Brian Kobilka took the John J. Abel Award in 1994, at 39.
University of Minnesota Duluth and Yale School of Medicine shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Brian Kobilka under University of Minnesota Duluth alumni, Yale School of Medicine alumni and Medical doctors from Minnesota.
Marissa Mayer (1975) and Im Yoon-ah (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Yale School of Medicine and Duke University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2012), John J. Abel Award (1994) and Mendel Medal (2015)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
What the chart says
Brian, according to the stars
Core essence
Brian is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Brian needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Brian wants to be loved
Brian 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 Brian is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Brian creates
How Brian makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Brian creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Brian is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Brian is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Brian leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Brian does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Brian's birth date. Working below.
Where Brian sits
Six lines
Brian’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Brian Kobilka
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Little Falls 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 Little Falls that night
Computed for 45.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Phecda stood nearest the zenith over Little Falls at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
From 46.0°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Little Falls at all: they sit past the −44.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 75% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 0° down.
How unusual Brian's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Brian Kobilka's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 30, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Brian Kobilka was born on May 30, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Brian Kobilka's birth date, May 30, 1955, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Brian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Brian Kobilka's date-only chart is Uranus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Brian Kobilka combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Brian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMoonsquareMars0.0° to 6.4° orb
Brian’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquareNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb
Brian’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Brian’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.6° to 1.8° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.1° to 2.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn2.2° to 3.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.5° to 3.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.8° to 5.1° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Brian’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 5°18′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 25°01′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 21°55′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 7°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 8°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Sun 0.6°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 2.5°
- Eros square Pluto 2.5°
Brian’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Brian’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.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Brian’s cards
Computed from May 30, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Brian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80907 (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 Charles Parnot, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Brian Kobilka at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Brian Kobilka.
Quick answers about Brian Kobilka’s chart
- How old is Brian Kobilka?
- Brian Kobilka is 71 years old, born May 30, 1955 in Little Falls, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Brian Kobilka?
- Brian Kobilka is a Gemini: born May 30, 1955, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Brian Kobilka's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 30, 1955 birth.
- What is Brian Kobilka's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Brian Kobilka's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Brian Kobilka's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Brian Kobilka's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
