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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Ox, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Carol’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Carol sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Carol Greider, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Carol’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
Carol’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareMars5.3° to 5.8° orb
Carol’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.3° to 5.4° orb
Carol’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.5° to 5.7° orb
Carol’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 5°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Carol absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAries 12°27′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Carol looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 15°16′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Carol is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 0°05′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Carol is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 8°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Carol is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.2°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Carol’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Carol is read as acting first and reflecting after.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Carol’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Carol Greider, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Carol’s cards
Every card is computed from April 15, 1961, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Carol Greider, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Carol’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q26322, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox.
- 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 time was Carol Greider born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Carol Greider's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 15, 1961 birth date.
- What is Carol Greider's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 15, 1961 birth date.
- 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.
