Derek Barton
Derek Barton (born September 8, 1918, Gravesend, United Kingdom; died 1998), was an English organic chemist. Barton served as Regius Professor of Chemistry, Glasgow University. Barton's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Knight Bachelor and Copley Medal.
Derek Barton’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Horse, with 
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Derek Barton’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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Derek’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Derek, according to the stars
Core essence
Derek 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 Derek is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Derek cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Derek needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Derek wants to be loved
Derek wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Derek openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Derek creates
How Derek 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. Derek 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: Derek is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Derek is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Derek runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Derek's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Derek Barton's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 8, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Derek Barton was born on September 8, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Derek Barton's birth date, September 8, 1918, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Derek’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Derek Barton's date-only chart is Venus opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Derek Barton combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Derek’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Derek Barton, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 23° 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.
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.
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.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Derek’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunsextileMars0.5° to 0.8° orb
Derek’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercurysextilePluto2.3° to 2.8° orb
Derek’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineJupiter3.0° to 3.5° orb
Derek’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn3.2° to 4.3° orb
Derek’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.3° to 3.5° orb
Derek’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.4° to 4.3° orb
Derek’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.6° to 4.7° orb
Derek’s growth and depths act as one.
stableMarssquareNeptune5.8° to 6.4° orb
Derek’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.0° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 1.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Derek’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 ℞Aries 1°55′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Derek may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 27°28′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Derek is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLeo 16°34′ (moves 0.93° 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 Derek loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 23°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Derek feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 14°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Derek that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.7°
- Ceres trine Venus 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.1°
- Eros square Mars 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.5°
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°).
Derek’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Derek is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Derek’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.
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.8°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Derek Barton, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Derek’s cards
Every card is computed from September 8, 1918, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Derek Barton, 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
Derek’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q102419, 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 National Portrait Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Derek Barton 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.
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Quick answers about Derek Barton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Derek Barton?
- Derek Barton was a Virgo: born September 8, 1918, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
- What was Derek Barton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 8, 1918 birth.
- What time was Derek Barton 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 was Derek Barton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the September 8, 1918 birth date.
- What was Derek Barton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 8, 1918 birth date.
- Where was Derek Barton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Derek Barton's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
