Carol Greider
Carol Greider (born April 15, 1961, San Diego, United States), aged 65, is an American molecular biologist. Greider's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Maryland Women's Hall of Fame and Dickson Prize in Medicine.
Carol Greider’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Carol
Carol Greider’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Carol in the U.S.?
#2242
US rank in 2025
~825,584
Americans share it since 1880
1946
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1961, Carol came 24th among girls and 861st among boys, carried by 16,667 American girls and 79 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carol’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
Carol’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Carol apart
Emma Watson (1990) and Tomas Tranströmer (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Carol, according to the stars
Core essence
Carol 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 Carol 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 Carol wants to be loved
Carol wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Carol creates
How Carol makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Carol creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Carol 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Carol is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Carol 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 Carol's birth date. Working below.
Where Carol sits
Six lines
Carol’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 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 Carol Greider
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Diego 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 San Diego that night
Computed for 32.72°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at San Diego was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 79.5° up.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 32.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −57.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from San Diego on any night.
Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual Carol's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Jupiter · Venus 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.
Score your own chart →Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Carol Greider's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 15, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Carol Greider was born on April 15, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Carol Greider's birth date, April 15, 1961, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Carol’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carol Greider's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Carol Greider combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Carol’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Aries or Taurus 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
stableVenussquareMars1.6° to 2.6° orb
Carol’s affections grind against their drive.
stableSunsquareSaturn3.3° to 4.3° orb
Carol’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineUranus3.4° to 4.4° orb
Carol’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineUranus3.6° to 4.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.3° to 5.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.5° to 5.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.2° to 14.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Carol’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 5°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 12°27′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 15°16′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 0°05′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 8°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.2°
Carol’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Carol’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.4°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.0°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 1.2°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
More people like Carol
Other biologists
- Victor Ambros1953
- Michael W. Young1949
- Elizabeth Blackburn1948
- Eric F. Wieschaus1947
- Jeffrey C. Hall1945
- Yoshinori Ohsumi1945
Born in United States
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- Amy SedarisAmerican comedian and actor
- Carolyn ColeAmerican photojournalist (born 1961)
- Camryn ManheimAmerican actress
More charts like Carol’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Joey SlyeAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Kylen GransonAmerican football tight end
- Kevin KnowlesAmerican football player
Born in Ox years
- Paul KarrerSwiss chemist
- Carl von OssietzkyGerman journalist, author, pacifist and recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize
- Menachem BeginIsraeli politician and former Prime Minister
Also born on April 15
- Emma Watson1990
- Tomas Tranströmer1931
- Emma Thompson1959
- Seth Rogen1982
- Jordan Chiles2001
- James Middleton1987
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Robert HassAmerican poet
- Leonora SpeyerAmerican poet
- Nick UtVietnamese photographer (b. 1951)
Other Aries Ox charts
- Larry PageAmerican computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur
- AkonSenegalese-American singer, songwriter, and record producer
- Roberto CarlosBrazilian footballer
- Lisa GerrardAustralian musician, singer and composer
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- Hans von Euler-ChelpinSwedish scientist
- James Batcheller SumnerAmerican chemist
- Thomas A. SteitzAmerican biochemist
- Stanford MooreAmerican biochemist
Famous people with Life Path 9
- DaBabyAmerican rapper
- Hayley KiyokoAmerican actress
- Wendy WilliamsAmerican media personality
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Carol’s cards
Computed from April 15, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carol’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q26322 (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 Keith Weller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carol Greider at Wikipedia and greiderlab.org.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carol Greider.
Quick answers about Carol Greider’s chart
- How old is Carol Greider?
- Carol Greider is 65 years old, born April 15, 1961 in San Diego, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Carol Greider?
- Carol Greider is an Aries: born April 15, 1961, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Carol Greider's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 15, 1961 birth.
- What is Carol Greider's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Carol Greider's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Carol Greider's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Carol Greider's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
