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E. Donnall Thomas

E. Donnall Thomas (born March 15, 1920, Mart, United States; died 2012), was an American hematologist. Thomas's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award and Kettering Prize.

E. Donnall Thomas’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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E. Donnall Thomas’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

What E. Donnall Thomas’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

1

Soul Urge · independence

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on E (5) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

E. Donnall Thomas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1920, 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 E. Donnall Thomas apart

The Kettering Prize came in 1981, when E. Donnall Thomas was 61.

E. Donnall Thomas was taught at Harvard Medical School.

Cause of death is recorded as heart failure.

The family line: married Dottie Thomas.

Wikipedia files E. Donnall Thomas under Presidents of the American Society of Hematology, American hematologists and Physicians of Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Eva Longoria (1975) and Zhores Alferov (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Harvard Medical School
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1990), National Medal of Science (1990) and Kettering Prize (1981)
Cause of death
heart failure
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
52

What the chart says

E. Donnall Thomas, according to the stars

Core essence

E. Donnall Thomas feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of E. Donnall Thomas is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How E. Donnall Thomas wants to be loved

E. Donnall Thomas wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let E. Donnall Thomas be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How E. Donnall Thomas creates

How E. Donnall Thomas makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. E. Donnall Thomas 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: E. Donnall Thomas is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. E. Donnall Thomas is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means E. Donnall Thomas 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 E. Donnall Thomas's birth date. Working below.

Where E. Donnall Thomas sits

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Intimate circleWide network
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
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You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
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You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
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You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mart on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

E. Donnall Thomas’s birth-night reference starPolluxwarm orange · GeminiPollux, in Gemini. A warm orange star, 83.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Pollux →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 53.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Mart that night

Computed for 31.54°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Pollux stood nearest the zenith over Mart at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.5° above the horizon in Gemini.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Mart sits at 31.5°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 −58.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 20% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Mart, United States

The death is recorded at Seattle, King County in 2012.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for E. Donnall Thomas: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual E.'s chart is

Chart pattern score

58 / 100 · Unusual

6 planets retrograde · Grand trine · Mars retrograde

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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E. Donnall Thomas in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Dreams in full colour.

E. Donnall Thomas's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 15, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Metal Monkey

Turns problems into games.

E. Donnall Thomas was born on March 15, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

E. Donnall Thomas's birth date, March 15, 1920, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in E. Donnall Thomas’s chart

E. Donnall Thomas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Neptune · Square, 0° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.4° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.1° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.6° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.7° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun in Pisces · 24°52′☉24°Moon in Capricorn · 27°58′☽27°Mercury in Aries · 3°04′ · retrograde☿℞3°Venus in Aquarius · 26°27′♀26°Mars in Scorpio · 9°06′ · retrograde♂℞9°Jupiter in Leo · 8°42′ · retrograde♃℞8°Saturn in Virgo · 6°59′ · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Pisces · 2°58′♅2°Neptune in Leo · 9°04′ · retrograde♆℞9°Pluto in Cancer · 5°40′ · retrograde♇℞5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarssquareNeptune0.0° orb

    E. Donnall Thomas’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter0.4° orb

    E. Donnall Thomas’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.4° orb

    E. Donnall Thomas’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn2.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto2.3° to 2.9° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto2.7° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto3.4° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter5.4° to 5.9° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune5.7° to 6.3° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.9° to 7.1° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

E. Donnall Thomas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 5°44′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAries 22°47′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAries 21°28′ (moves 0.77° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 15°54′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 16°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Pluto 0.1°
  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.7°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 3.0°

E. Donnall Thomas’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6 pts

    disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in E. Donnall Thomas’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Mars, Uranus, Pluto, SaturnA 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.

  • Mercury biquintile Mars 0.0°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 0.8°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.2°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°

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E. Donnall Thomas’s cards

Computed from March 15, 1920. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

E. Donnall Thomas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310485 (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 Ca.garcia.s, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about E. Donnall Thomas’s chart

What zodiac sign was E. Donnall Thomas?
E. Donnall Thomas was a Pisces: born March 15, 1920, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was E. Donnall Thomas's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 15, 1920 birth.
What was E. Donnall Thomas's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was E. Donnall Thomas's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was E. Donnall Thomas's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was E. Donnall Thomas's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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