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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Elias
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
Elias ranked 446th in 1928, the year of this birth, with 181 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elias’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
5
Soul Urge · freedom
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on E (5) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elias’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1928, 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 Elias apart
Elias James Corey took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968, at 40.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Elias James Corey under Lawrence High School (Massachusetts) alumni, People from Methuen, Massachusetts and Wolf Prize in Chemistry laureates.
Pablo Neruda (1904) and Vinícius Júnior (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Awards
- National Medal of Science (1988), Priestley Medal (2004) and Chemical Pioneer Award (1981)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 57
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. Working below.
Where Elias sits
Six lines
Elias’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 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.
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 Elias James Corey
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Methuen 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 Methuen that night
Computed for 42.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Methuen at 9 p.m. that evening, 74.2° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Methuen on any night.
Sun 6° below the horizon, Moon down and 22% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Methuen, United States
- Lives in
- Cambridge
Wikidata records Cambridge as Elias James Corey's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Elias James Corey: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Elias's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Cancer · 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 →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Taurus 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
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
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter4.5° to 5.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.7° to 6.9° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.0° to 6.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 9°41′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 17°58′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 17°48′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 22°18′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 25°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Elias’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Elias’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Elias
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on July 12
- Pablo Neruda1904
- Vinícius Júnior2000
- Tupou VI of Tonga1959
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- Hilary Knight1989
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Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Natascha McElhoneBritish actress
- Bethany WhitmoreAustralian actress
- Omi VaidyaIndian actor
Other Cancer Dragon charts
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- Ringo StarrBritish musician, drummer for the Beatles
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Elias’s cards
Computed from July 12, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elias’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q135171 (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 Creator: Trvthchem personal photo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elias James Corey at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Elias James Corey.
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.
- 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 is Elias James Corey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Elias James Corey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
