Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (born September 9, 1923, Yonkers, United States; died 2008), was an American medical researcher. Gajdusek's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria and honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Daniel
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Daniel in the U.S.?
#22
US rank in 2025
~1,991,091
Americans share it since 1880
1985
its peak year
In 1923, 4,264 American boys and 13 girls were registered Daniel — 47th among boys and 2,615th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Daniel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Daniel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
The record
What sets Daniel apart
Luka Modrić (1985) and Adam Sandler (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Daniel, according to the stars
Core essence
Daniel notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Daniel is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Daniel wants to be loved
Daniel wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Daniel and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Daniel creates
How Daniel makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Daniel creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Daniel is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Daniel 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Daniel channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Daniel's birth date. Working below.
Where Daniel sits
Six lines
Daniel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Yonkers that night
Computed for 40.94°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Yonkers at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 6.2° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
Yonkers sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Yonkers at all: they sit past the −49.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual Daniel's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 9, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was born on September 9, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek's birth date, September 9, 1923, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Daniel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Daniel Carleton Gajdusek's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Daniel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° 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
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Daniel’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Daniel’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.1° to 0.3° orb
Daniel’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquarePluto0.2° to 0.7° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.3° to 0.4° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter0.5° to 1.6° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus0.8° to 1.0° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter0.9° to 1.7° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableVenussextilePluto2.9° to 4.2° orb
stableSunsextilePluto3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableUranustrinePluto3.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Daniel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 20°10′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 0°40′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 20°30′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 7°35′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 8°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.2°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 1.6°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.9°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.7°
Daniel’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Jupiter; 6 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Daniel’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
Kite · Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto, SunA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto, VenusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.9°
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Daniel’s cards
Computed from September 9, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Daniel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108576 (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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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Daniel Carleton Gajdusek’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Daniel Carleton Gajdusek?
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was a Virgo: born September 9, 1923, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Daniel Carleton Gajdusek's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 9, 1923 birth.
- What was Daniel Carleton Gajdusek's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Daniel Carleton Gajdusek's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Daniel Carleton Gajdusek's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Daniel Carleton Gajdusek's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
