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Craig Mello

Craig Mello (born October 18, 1960, New Haven, United States), aged 66, is an American biologist. Mello's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize and Massry Prize.

Craig Mello’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Craig Mello’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Strategist

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#1644

US rank in 2025

~300,628

Americans share it since 1881

1960

its peak year

In 1960, 10,724 American boys and 20 girls were registered Craig — 41st among boys and 2,752nd among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Craig’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on C (3) and closes on G (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Craig’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

Amber · Blush · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, 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 Craig apart

The NAS Award in Molecular Biology came in 2003, when Craig Mello was 43.

Study took Craig Mello to Fairfax High School and Brown University.

On Wikipedia the categories read American people of Azorean descent, UMass Chan Medical School faculty and Molecular biologists.

Jean-Claude Van Damme shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Fairfax High School, Brown University and Harvard University
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2006), Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2006) and NAS Award in Molecular Biology (2003)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
54

What the chart says

Craig, according to the stars

Core essence

Craig makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Craig 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 Craig wants to be loved

Craig wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Craig even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Craig creates

How Craig makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Craig creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Craig is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Craig is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Craig 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 Craig's birth date. Working below.

Where Craig sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Craig

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Craig

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Craig

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Craig

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

PracticalVisionary
Craig

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Craig

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Craig’s birth-night reference starDenebwhite · CygnusDeneb, in Cygnus. A white star, 75.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 17.8° 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 New Haven that night

Computed for 41.31°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at New Haven at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 14.7° of the exact zenith.

Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

New Haven sits at 41.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −48.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New Haven on any night.

The Moon, 3% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 33° below the horizon.

How unusual Craig's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all

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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Craig Mello at a glance

Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Craig Mello's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 18, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Metal Rat

Quick, clever, never stuck.

Craig Mello was born on October 18, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Craig Mello's birth date, October 18, 1960, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Craig’s chart

Craig’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.3° orbMars faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.3° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.5° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.7° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.8° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.8° orbSun in Libra · 25°16′☉25°Moon in Libra · 2°26′☽2°Mercury in Scorpio · 19°45′☿19°Venus in Scorpio · 26°16′♀26°Mars in Cancer · 12°11′♂12°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 28°47′♃28°Saturn in Capricorn · 12°41′♄12°Uranus in Leo · 24°57′♅24°Neptune in Scorpio · 8°22′♆8°Pluto in Virgo · 7°26′♇7°

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

  • stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Craig’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.4° to 0.7° orb

    Craig’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableVenussquareUranus0.7° to 1.9° orb

    Craig’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter3.1° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune3.7° to 4.0° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.3° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto4.6° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus4.8° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 27°36′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 15°31′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 1°02′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 14°15′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 18°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Chiron square Venus 1.3°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.6°
  • Hygiea square Mars 2.1°
  • Chiron trine Sun 2.3°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.7°

Craig’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Craig’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 quintile Pluto 0.3°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.9°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 1.4°
  • Uranus quintile Neptune 1.4°

Born the same day as Craig

Jean-Claude Van Damme was born on October 18, 1960 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. New Haven sits at 41.3°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Craig’s cards

Computed from October 18, 1960. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Craig’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q206455 (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 Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Craig Mello at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Craig Mello.

Quick answers about Craig Mello’s chart

How old is Craig Mello?
Craig Mello is 66 years old, born October 18, 1960 in New Haven, United States.
What zodiac sign is Craig Mello?
Craig Mello is a Libra: born October 18, 1960, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Craig Mello's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1960 birth.
What is Craig Mello's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Craig Mello's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Craig Mello's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Craig Mello's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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