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Edwin G. Krebs

Edwin G. Krebs (born June 6, 1918, Lansing, United States; died 2009), was an American biochemist. Krebs's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and Welch Award in Chemistry.

Edwin G. Krebs’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Edwin G. Krebs’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Explorer

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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Edwin in the U.S.?

#398

US rank in 2025

~248,744

Americans share it since 1880

1922

its peak year

The SSA recorded 3,487 American boys and 12 girls named Edwin in 1918: 55th among boys and 2,713th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Edwin’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 N (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

Edwin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Lilac · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, 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 Edwin apart

The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1966, when Edwin G. Krebs was 48.

Edwin G. Krebs was taught at Washington University School of Medicine and Urbana High School.

Wikipedia files Edwin G. Krebs under People from Bond County, Illinois, Washington University School of Medicine alumni and University of California, Davis faculty.

Ryan Higa (1990) and QTCinderella (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Washington University School of Medicine, Urbana High School and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Awards
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1989), Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1989) and Canada Gairdner International Award (1978)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
48

What the chart says

Edwin, according to the stars

Core essence

Edwin is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Edwin needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Edwin is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Edwin needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Edwin wants to be loved

Edwin wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Edwin is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Edwin creates

How Edwin 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. Edwin 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: Edwin 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 4 is the builder. Edwin 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Edwin channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Edwin's birth date. Working below.

Where Edwin sits

Six lines

Edwin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Edwin

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Edwin

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

PrivateExpressive
Edwin

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Edwin

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Edwin

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Edwin

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 Lansing on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Edwin’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 85.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 15.9° 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 Lansing that night

Computed for 43.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Lansing at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.4° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.

Lansing sits at 43.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Lansing at all: they sit past the −46.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 5% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 3° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Lansing, United States
Lived in
Urbana

Wikidata records Urbana as Edwin G. Krebs's home, against Lansing as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Seattle, King County in 2009.

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

How unusual Edwin's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl

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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Edwin G. Krebs in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Four conversations, one person.

Edwin G. Krebs's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 6, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Horse

Happiest halfway there.

Edwin G. Krebs was born on June 6, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 4

Plans, then plans the plan.

Edwin G. Krebs's birth date, June 6, 1918, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Edwin’s chart

Edwin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.1° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.1° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 1.7° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.3° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.7° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 5.4° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 5.5° orbSun in Gemini · 15°09′☉15°Moon in Taurus · 15°56′☽15°Mercury in Taurus · 24°26′☿24°Venus in Taurus · 3°57′♀3°Mars in Virgo · 22°47′♂22°Jupiter in Gemini · 21°40′♃21°Saturn in Leo · 10°27′♄10°Uranus in Aquarius · 27°43′ · retrograde♅℞27°Neptune in Leo · 5°02′♆5°Pluto in Cancer · 4°32′♇4°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableVenussextilePluto0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Edwin’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune0.5° to 1.6° orb

    Edwin’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter1.0° to 1.2° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrineMars1.1° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus2.5° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus5.9° to 6.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.2° to 6.9° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto6.8° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 2.1° to 14.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

Edwin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 3°05′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 6°33′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 24°05′ (moves 0.80° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 13°53′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 4°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.3°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Eros trine Mars 1.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 1.3°
  • Chiron square Pluto 1.4°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.9°
  • Ceres opposition Pluto 2.0°
  • Ceres trine Venus 2.6°

Edwin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Edwin’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.

  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
  • Mercury quintile Neptune 1.4°
  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.6°

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Edwin’s cards

Computed from June 6, 1918. Tap to flip.

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Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

4 · Architect

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Edwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q109731 (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.

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Quick answers about Edwin G. Krebs’s chart

What zodiac sign was Edwin G. Krebs?
Edwin G. Krebs was a Gemini: born June 6, 1918, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Edwin G. Krebs's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 6, 1918 birth.
What was Edwin G. Krebs's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Edwin G. Krebs's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Edwin G. Krebs's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Edwin G. Krebs's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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