Drew Weissman
Drew Weissman (born September 7, 1959, Lexington, United States), aged 67, is an American physician-scientist (born 1959). Weissman's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Inventors Hall of Fame and Canada Gairdner International Award.
Drew Weissman’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Drew
Drew Weissman’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Drew in the U.S.?
#553
US rank in 2025
~88,085
Americans share it since 1880
1985
its peak year
Drew ranked 334th among boys and 2,897th among girls in 1959, the year of this birth, with 540 American boys and 17 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Drew’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on D (4) and closes on W (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Drew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 5 · 8
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, 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 Drew apart
Drew Weissman took the Rosenstiel Award in 2020, at 61.
Brandeis University and Boston University shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Drew Weissman under Physician-scientists, Scientists from Massachusetts and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania faculty.
The same date carries James Schamus. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Brandeis University and Boston University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2023), Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (2021) and Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2021)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 50
What the chart says
Drew, according to the stars
Core essence
Drew 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 Drew is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Drew feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Drew needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Drew wants to be loved
Drew 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 Drew and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Drew creates
How Drew makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Drew creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Drew 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Drew is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Drew fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Drew's birth date. Working below.
Where Drew sits
Six lines
Drew’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Drew Weissman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lexington 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 Lexington that night
Computed for 42.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Lexington at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.1° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Lexington at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 29% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.
How unusual Drew's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · 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
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Drew Weissman's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 7, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Drew Weissman was born on September 7, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Builds what others only dream about.
Drew Weissman's birth date, September 7, 1959, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Drew’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Drew Weissman's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Drew Weissman combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Drew’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Scorpio 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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.8° orb
Drew’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
Drew’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.0° to 1.5° orb
Drew’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.3° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune0.3° to 0.9° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn0.3° to 1.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.4° to 5.3° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 6.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Drew’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 24°09′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 26°19′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 2°39′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 7°48′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.7°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.5°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.6°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.0°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.2°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.2°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 2.3°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.9°
Drew’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Drew’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, PlutoThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Jupiter 0.7°
Born the same day as Drew
James Schamus was born on September 7, 1959 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Lexington, at 42.4°N, nothing below −47.6° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Drew’s cards
Computed from September 7, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
22 · Master Builder☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Drew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q88608402 (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 Thorne Media at 0:08 and 0:28, cropped, brightened, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Drew Weissman at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Drew Weissman.
Quick answers about Drew Weissman’s chart
- How old is Drew Weissman?
- Drew Weissman is 67 years old, born September 7, 1959 in Lexington, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Drew Weissman?
- Drew Weissman is a Virgo: born September 7, 1959, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Drew Weissman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 7, 1959 birth.
- What is Drew Weissman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is Drew Weissman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Drew Weissman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Drew Weissman's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
