Curtis T. McMullen
Curtis T. McMullen (born May 21, 1958, Berkeley, United States), aged 68, is an American mathematician and Fields medallist. McMullen's honours include Fields medal, Humboldt Prize and Salem Prize.
Curtis T. McMullen’s zodiac sign is Taurus or Gemini (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Earth Dog, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Curtis
How common is the name Curtis in the U.S.?
#985
US rank in 2025
~262,876
Americans share it since 1880
1962
its peak year
In 1958, 5,261 American boys and 43 girls were registered Curtis — 82nd among boys and 1,634th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Curtis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
11
Soul Urge · insight
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Curtis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 3 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Terracotta
The record
What sets Curtis apart
Andrei Sakharov (1921) and The Notorious B.I.G. (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Curtis, according to the stars
How Curtis wants to be loved
Curtis 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 Curtis creates
How Curtis 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. Curtis 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: Curtis is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Curtis is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Curtis slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Curtis's birth date. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Berkeley 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 Berkeley that night
Computed for 37.87°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Berkeley was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 77.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
Berkeley sits at 37.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 12% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 8° below the horizon.
How unusual Curtis's chart is
Chart pattern score
35 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Uranus · 2 planets at a critical degree
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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Taurus or Gemini Sun
Curtis T. McMullen was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Dog
Earth DogThe first call when it's bad.
Curtis T. McMullen was born on May 21, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Curtis T. McMullen's birth date, May 21, 1958, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Curtis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Curtis T. McMullen's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
Curtis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableSunsquarePluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Curtis’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.1° orb
Curtis’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.8° to 3.1° orb
Curtis’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.3° to 3.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.2° to 5.4° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto5.2° to 6.5° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.3° to 6.5° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.6° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 6.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Curtis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 22°42′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 3°42′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 12°30′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 20°18′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.9°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.2°
Curtis’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Curtis’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Mars 0.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.2°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 2.5°
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Also born on May 21
- Andrei Sakharov1921
- The Notorious B.I.G.1972
- Lisa Edelstein1966
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- Taylor Sheridan1970
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Serge HarocheFrench physicist, Nobel laureate
- George PorterBritish chemist
- Austen ChamberlainBritish politician
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Michael MilkenAmerican investor
- Kjell Inge RøkkeNorwegian businessman
- Dagmar DolbyAmerican billionaire heiress, philanthropist
From the journal: Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why · Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say
Curtis’s cards
Computed from May 21, 1958. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Curtis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q333959 (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.
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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Curtis T. McMullen.
Quick answers about Curtis T. McMullen’s chart
- How old is Curtis T. McMullen?
- Curtis T. McMullen is 68 years old, born May 21, 1958 in Berkeley, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Curtis T. McMullen?
- Curtis T. McMullen was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Curtis T. McMullen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 21, 1958 birth.
- What is Curtis T. McMullen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Curtis T. McMullen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Curtis T. McMullen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Curtis T. McMullen's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
