Elias James Corey
Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928, Methuen, United States), aged 98, is an American chemist. Corey's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Priestley Medal and National Medal of Science.
Elias James Corey’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Dragon, with 
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Elias James Corey’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Elias in the U.S.?
#13
US rank in 2025
~129,502
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
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Elias’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Elias, according to the stars
Core essence
Elias feels the room before entering it. The core of Elias is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Elias, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Elias 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 Elias needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Elias wants to be loved
Elias wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Elias gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Elias creates
How Elias makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Elias creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Elias is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Elias 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Elias is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Elias's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Elias James Corey's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 12, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Elias James Corey was born on July 12, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Elias James Corey's birth date, July 12, 1928, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Elias’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Elias James Corey's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of about 3°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Elias James Corey combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Elias’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Elias James Corey, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Taurus 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.
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.8° to 3.7° orb
Elias’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.2° orb
Elias’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.3° to 3.4° orb
Elias’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareUranus3.9° to 4.0° orb
Elias’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter4.5° to 5.1° orb
Elias’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.7° to 6.9° orb
Elias’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrineUranus6.0° to 6.1° orb
Elias’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.2° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 1.7° to 16.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Elias’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 9°41′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Elias building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 17°58′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Elias is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosPisces 17°48′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Elias is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 22°18′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Elias is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 25°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Elias is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 opposition Venus 0.8°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.0°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.2°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 1.9°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.1°
- Eros trine Sun 2.2°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.3°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.9°
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°).
Elias’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. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Pluto
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Elias is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Elias’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.
Stellium in Cancer · 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 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.
- Venus quintile Mars 0.5°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.7°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.2°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Elias James Corey, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Elias’s cards
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☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Elias James Corey, 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
Elias’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q135171, 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 Creator: Trvthchem personal photo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elias James Corey 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 Elias James Corey’s chart
- How old is Elias James Corey?
- Elias James Corey is 98 years old, born July 12, 1928 in Methuen, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Elias James Corey?
- Elias James Corey is a Cancer: born July 12, 1928, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dragon.
- What is Elias James Corey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 12, 1928 birth.
- What time was Elias James Corey 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 is Elias James Corey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 12, 1928 birth date.
- What is Elias James Corey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 12, 1928 birth date.
- Where is Elias James Corey's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Elias James Corey's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Pluto). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
