Carolyn Bertozzi
Carolyn Bertozzi (born October 10, 1966, Boston, United States), aged 60, is an American chemist (born 1966). Bertozzi's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Lemelson–MIT Prize and Glenn T. Seaborg Medal.
Carolyn Bertozzi’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Carolyn
Carolyn Bertozzi’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Carolyn in the U.S.?
#1222
US rank in 2025
~558,397
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Carolyn ranked 60th among girls and 1,729th among boys in 1966, the year of this birth, with 6,121 American girls and 20 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carolyn’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
9
Soul Urge · meaning
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Carolyn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1966, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Carolyn apart
Carolyn Bertozzi took the Willard Gibbs Award in 2008, at 42.
The classrooms behind this chart: Lexington High School and University of California, Berkeley.
The family line: born to William Bertozzi.
Wikipedia's editors put Carolyn Bertozzi under American LGBTQ scientists, Lesbian scientists and LGBTQ Nobel laureates.
Gavin Newsom (1967) and Marina Diamandis (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Lexington High School, University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2022), Heinrich Wieland Prize (2012) and Lemelson-MIT Prize (2010)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 67
What the chart says
Carolyn, according to the stars
Core essence
Carolyn makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Carolyn is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Carolyn wants to be loved
Carolyn wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Carolyn gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Carolyn creates
How Carolyn makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Carolyn 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: Carolyn is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Carolyn is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Carolyn fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Carolyn's birth date. Working below.
Where Carolyn sits
Six lines
Carolyn’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.
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Dedicate a star to Carolyn Bertozzi
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston 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 Boston that night
Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Boston was Deneb, in Cygnus, 80.2° up.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 42.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Boston at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 14% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.
How unusual Carolyn's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Carolyn Bertozzi's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 10, 1966, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Horse
Fire HorseHappiest halfway there.
Carolyn Bertozzi was born on October 10, 1966, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Carolyn Bertozzi's birth date, October 10, 1966, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Carolyn’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carolyn Bertozzi's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Carolyn Bertozzi combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Carolyn’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 5° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.0° to 7.9° orb
Carolyn’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussextileNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
Carolyn’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Carolyn’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.4° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus2.9° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.4° to 5.7° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.4° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 14.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 2.3° to 15.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 4.2° to 17.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Carolyn’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 22°53′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 4°54′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 20°05′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 4°11′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 21°23′ (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 opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.7°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.2°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Chiron conjunction Saturn 1.8°
- Ceres trine Mercury 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.2°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 2.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.7°
Carolyn’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Carolyn’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 Uranus 0.1°
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Carolyn’s cards
Computed from October 10, 1966. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carolyn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7442 (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 Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carolyn Bertozzi at Wikipedia, profiles.stanford.edu, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carolyn Bertozzi.
Quick answers about Carolyn Bertozzi’s chart
- How old is Carolyn Bertozzi?
- Carolyn Bertozzi is 60 years old, born October 10, 1966 in Boston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Carolyn Bertozzi?
- Carolyn Bertozzi is a Libra: born October 10, 1966, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Carolyn Bertozzi's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 10, 1966 birth.
- What is Carolyn Bertozzi's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Carolyn Bertozzi's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Carolyn Bertozzi's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Carolyn Bertozzi's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
