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Craig Mello

Craig Mello (born October 18, 1960, New Haven, United States), aged 65, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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 1880

1960

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Craig’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Craig sits

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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

Dedicate a star to Craig Mello

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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.

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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Craig’s chart

Craig’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Craig Mello, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Craig’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter3.1° to 3.9° orb

    Craig’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune3.7° to 4.0° orb

    Craig’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb

    Craig’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.3° orb

    Craig’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarssextilePluto4.6° to 4.9° orb

    Craig’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus4.8° to 5.6° orb

    Craig’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb

    Craig’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.7° orb

    Craig’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Craig making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

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

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

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Craig is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

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

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

    Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Craig loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.

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

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

    Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Craig is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Craig guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

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 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°

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°).

Craig’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. 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

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Craig is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Craig’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Craig Mello, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Craig

Jean-Claude Van Damme was born on October 18, 1960 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Craig’s cards

Every card is computed from October 18, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

Strength

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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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

No birth time is on public record for Craig Mello, 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

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

The same Craig Mello at Wikipedia.

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 Craig Mello.

Quick answers about Craig Mello’s chart

How old is Craig Mello?
Craig Mello is 65 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat.
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 time was Craig Mello 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 Craig Mello's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 18, 1960 birth date.
What is Craig Mello's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 18, 1960 birth date.
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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