Edmond H. Fischer
Edmond H. Fischer (born April 6, 1920, Shanghai French Concession; died 2021), was an American biochemist. Fischer's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Guggenheim Fellowship and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Edmond H. Fischer’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Edmond
Edmond H. Fischer’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Edmond in the U.S.?
#2011
US rank in 2025
~24,900
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
The SSA recorded 433 American boys named Edmond in 1920: 266th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edmond’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on E (5) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Edmond’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
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 Edmond apart
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1963, when Edmond H. Fischer was 43.
The schooling ran through University of Geneva.
Wikipedia files Edmond H. Fischer under Swiss expatriates in China, Alumni of the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève and American people of Swiss-Jewish descent.
James Watson (1928) and Paul Rudd (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Geneva
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1963), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2010) and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1992)
- Citizenship
- United States and Switzerland
- Languages
- French and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 52
What the chart says
Edmond, according to the stars
Core essence
Edmond leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Edmond is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Edmond 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 Edmond 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 Edmond wants to be loved
Edmond wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Edmond, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Edmond creates
How Edmond makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Edmond builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Edmond 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 4 is the builder. Edmond is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Edmond 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 Edmond's birth date. Working below.
Where Edmond sits
Six lines
Edmond’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Edmond H. Fischer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shanghai French Concession 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 Shanghai French Concession that night
Computed for 31.22°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Shanghai French Concession was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 79.0° up.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Shanghai French Concession sits at 31.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Shanghai French Concession at all: they sit past the −58.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 91% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 33° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Shanghai French Concession, Republic of China
The death is recorded at Seattle, King County in 2021.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Edmond H. Fischer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Edmond's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet · No Air planets
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
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Edmond H. Fischer's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 6, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Edmond H. Fischer was born on April 6, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Edmond H. Fischer's birth date, April 6, 1920, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Edmond’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Edmond H. Fischer's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Air.
- Edmond H. Fischer combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Edmond’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° 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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.1° to 1.1° orb
Edmond’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.1° orb
Edmond’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrinePluto0.2° to 0.4° orb
Edmond’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.3° to 0.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.7° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableUranustrinePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableMarstrineUranus1.8° to 2.1° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter1.9° to 2.2° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune2.6° to 2.9° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.2° to 11.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Edmond’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 6°59′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 1°13′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 8°26′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 20°29′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 18°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.3°
- Eros square Neptune 0.4°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.1°
- Chiron square Pluto 1.3°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.6°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.8°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.3°
- Eros opposition Mars 2.4°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.7°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.8°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.9°
Edmond’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Edmond’s chart
Kite · 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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.0°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 1.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.7°
More people like Edmond
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- Stephen SondheimAmerican composer and lyricist
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on April 6
- James Watson1928
- Paul Rudd1969
- Zach Braff1975
- Todd Chrisley1969
- Marilu Henner1952
- Shaheen Afridi2000
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Marcus Lee HansenAmerican historian
- Chuck PhilipsAmerican writer and investigative journalist
- Connie SchultzAmerican newspaper columnist
Other Aries Monkey charts
- Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-NassauMember of the Dutch royal family
- Herbert GrönemeyerGerman singer, musician and actor (born 1956)
- Anthony PerkinsAmerican actor
- Bette DavisAmerican actress
Other Evergreen Pioneers
- Vasilisa StepanenkoUkrainian journalist, producer, presenter
- Gene RoddenberryAmerican television screenwriter and producer
- John ScalziAmerican science fiction writer (born 1969)
- David D. LevineAmerican science fiction writer
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Alice MunroCanadian writer
- Russell CroweNew Zealand actor
- Andrew GarfieldEnglish and American actor
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Edmond’s cards
Computed from April 6, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
4 · Architect♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edmond’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q109726 (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 Betsythedevine, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edmond H. Fischer at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Edmond H. Fischer.
Quick answers about Edmond H. Fischer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Edmond H. Fischer?
- Edmond H. Fischer was an Aries: born April 6, 1920, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Edmond H. Fischer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 6, 1920 birth.
- What was Edmond H. Fischer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Edmond H. Fischer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Edmond H. Fischer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Edmond H. Fischer's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Neptune is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
