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Carl Ferdinand Cori

Carl Ferdinand Cori (born December 5, 1896, Prague, Czech Republic; died 1984), was a Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist. Cori's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.

Carl Ferdinand Cori’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Carl Ferdinand Cori’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Explorer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Carl in the U.S.?

#1134

US rank in 2025

~508,017

Americans share it since 1880

1956

its peak year

Carl ranked 25th among boys and 1,619th among girls in 1896, the year of this birth, with 852 American boys and 5 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Carl’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on C (3) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Carl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange

The record

What sets Carl apart

Walt Disney (1901) and Werner Heisenberg (1901) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Carl, according to the stars

Core essence

Carl is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Carl is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Carl wants to be loved

Carl wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Carl you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Carl creates

How Carl makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Carl creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Carl 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Carl is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Carl scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Carl's birth date. Working below.

Where Carl sits

Six lines

Carl’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Carl

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Carl

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Carl

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Carl

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Carl

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Carl

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Carl Ferdinand Cori

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Prague on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Carl’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 81.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 58.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Prague that night

Computed for 50.09°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Prague was Almach, in Andromeda, 81.7° up.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Prague sits at 50.1°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −39.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Prague on any night.

The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 46° below the horizon.

How unusual Carl's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Mars · T-square onto Jupiter · Mars retrograde

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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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Carl Ferdinand Cori's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 5, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Fire Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Carl Ferdinand Cori was born on December 5, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Carl Ferdinand Cori's birth date, December 5, 1896, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Carl’s chart

Carl’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.1° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.5° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 1.7° orbMars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.1° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.7° orbSun in Sagittarius · 13°52′☉13°Moon in Sagittarius · 23°40′☽23°Mercury in Sagittarius · 17°35′☿17°Venus in Capricorn · 21°04′♀21°Mars in Gemini · 22°00′ · retrograde♂℞22°Jupiter in Virgo · 9°35′♃9°Saturn in Scorpio · 24°19′♄24°Uranus in Scorpio · 25°57′♅25°Neptune in Gemini · 19°02′ · retrograde♆℞19°Pluto in Gemini · 12°43′ · retrograde♇℞12°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunoppositionPluto0.6° to 1.7° orb

    Carl’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.7° to 2.3° orb

    Carl’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus1.6° to 1.7° orb

    Carl’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn2.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune2.8° to 3.1° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.4° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionMars3.4° to 5.4° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter3.8° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto4.1° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune4.6° to 5.7° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable7 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Carl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 8°15′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 24°11′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 5°03′ (moves 0.55° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 26°01′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 29°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Saturn 0.1°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.3°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.8°
  • Ceres square Mars 2.2°

Carl’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Carl’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Mars · Venus, Saturn, MarsTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus quincunx Mars 0.9°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 2.0°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 2.3°

Carl’s family here

One relative of Carl Ferdinand Cori also has a chart on AsterNym.

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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained

Carl’s cards

Computed from December 5, 1896. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Carl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q78501 (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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Carl Ferdinand Cori at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carl Ferdinand Cori.

Quick answers about Carl Ferdinand Cori’s chart

What zodiac sign was Carl Ferdinand Cori?
Carl Ferdinand Cori was a Sagittarius: born December 5, 1896, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Carl Ferdinand Cori's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 5, 1896 birth.
What was Carl Ferdinand Cori's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Carl Ferdinand Cori's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Carl Ferdinand Cori's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Carl Ferdinand Cori's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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