Daniel Nathans
Daniel Nathans (born October 30, 1928, Wilmington, United States; died 1999), was an American microbiologist. Nathans's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Medal of Science and NAS Award in Molecular Biology.
Daniel Nathans’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Daniel
Daniel Nathans’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
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) × fixed 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 1928, 4,426 American boys and 34 girls were registered Daniel — 47th among boys and 1,317th 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.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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 · 1 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Crimson · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1928, 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 Daniel apart
The NAS Award in Molecular Biology came in 1976, when Daniel Nathans was 48.
Study took Daniel Nathans to University of Delaware and Washington University School of Medicine.
Daniel Nathans lies at Har Sinai Cemetery.
The family line: raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read Cornell University people, Presidents of Johns Hopkins University and University of Delaware alumni.
Diego Maradona (1960) and Ivanka Trump (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Delaware, Washington University School of Medicine and Washington University in St. Louis
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1978), NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1976) and National Medal of Science (1993)
- Buried at
- Har Sinai Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Daniel, according to the stars
Core essence
Daniel does not do surface. The core of Daniel is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Daniel is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Daniel wants to be loved
Daniel wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Daniel and watch them fall for you again.
How Daniel creates
How Daniel makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Daniel creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Daniel is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Daniel 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 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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Daniel Nathans
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wilmington 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 Wilmington that night
Computed for 39.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Wilmington at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 12.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 96 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Wilmington sits at 39.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −50.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Wilmington on any night.
Sun 45° below the horizon, Moon up and 93% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Wilmington, United States
The death is recorded at Baltimore, Maryland in 1999.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Daniel Nathans: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Daniel's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Daniel Nathans's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 30, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Daniel Nathans was born on October 30, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Daniel Nathans's birth date, October 30, 1928, 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 Nathans' date-only chart is Sun trine Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto.
- Daniel Nathans combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Daniel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 9° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableSuntrineMars0.8° to 1.6° orb
Daniel’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableSunoppositionJupiter1.3° to 2.5° orb
Daniel’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMarssextileJupiter3.0° to 3.3° orb
Daniel’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineUranus3.7° to 5.0° orb
stableMarssquareUranus3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto5.9° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleVenussquareNeptuneorb from 6.9° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 7.4° to 22.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 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 ℞Taurus 7°49′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 3°51′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 26°20′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 24°17′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 7°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.4°
- Chiron opposition Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.9°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.7°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.8°
Daniel’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Daniel’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.
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.3°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.7°
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on October 30
- Diego Maradona1960
- Ivanka Trump1981
- Devin Booker1996
- Nia Long1970
- Ashley Graham1987
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Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Kay RyanAmerican poet
- Serge SchmemannAmerican journalist
- Clifford K. BerrymanAmerican cartoonist
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Other Tidal Guardians
- Niels Ryberg FinsenFaroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent
- Richard R. Schrock1945-, American chemist
- Manfred EigenGerman biophysical chemist
- Gabriel LippmannLuxembourgish physicist nationalized French
Famous people with Life Path 6
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Daniel’s cards
Computed from October 30, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Daniel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295706 (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 Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Daniel Nathans at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Daniel Nathans.
Quick answers about Daniel Nathans’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Daniel Nathans?
- Daniel Nathans was a Scorpio: born October 30, 1928, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Daniel Nathans's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 30, 1928 birth.
- What was Daniel Nathans's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Daniel Nathans's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Daniel Nathans's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Daniel Nathans's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (5.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
