Eric Allin Cornell
Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961, Palo Alto, United States), aged 64, is an American physicist, professor (born 1961). Cornell's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Fritz London Award and Zeiss Research Award.
Eric Allin Cornell’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Ox, with 
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Eric Allin Cornell’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Eric in the U.S.?
#273
US rank in 2025
~893,184
Americans share it since 1880
1970
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Eric’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Eric, according to the stars
Core essence
Eric is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Eric is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Eric wants to be loved
Eric wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Eric and watch them fall for you again.
How Eric creates
How Eric makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Eric creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Eric is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Eric 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Eric has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Eric's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Eric sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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Eric Allin Cornell at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Eric Allin Cornell's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 19, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Eric Allin Cornell was born on December 19, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Eric Allin Cornell's birth date, December 19, 1961, 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 Eric’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eric Allin Cornell's date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Eric Allin Cornell combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Eric’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Eric Allin Cornell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.6° orb
Eric’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMars1.2° to 1.5° orb
Eric’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 2.3° orb
Eric’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineUranus2.3° to 3.3° orb
Eric’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
Eric’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.9° to 3.8° orb
Eric’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineUranus3.8° to 4.5° orb
Eric’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.7° to 4.9° orb
Eric’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 2.3° to 15.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Eric’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 2°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Eric absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 13°08′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Eric is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosCapricorn 29°32′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Eric is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 8°26′ (moves 0.41° 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. Eric is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 5°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Eric exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Ceres opposition Neptune 0.5°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 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°).
Eric’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. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Eric is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Eric’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 Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 2.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Eric Allin Cornell, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Eric
Abigail Johnson was born on December 19, 1961 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Eric’s cards
Every card is computed from December 19, 1961, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Eric Allin Cornell, 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
Eric’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q205954, 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 Betsythedevine, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eric Allin Cornell at Wikipedia and experts.colorado.edu.
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 Eric Allin Cornell’s chart
- How old is Eric Allin Cornell?
- Eric Allin Cornell is 64 years old, born December 19, 1961 in Palo Alto, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Eric Allin Cornell?
- Eric Allin Cornell is a Sagittarius: born December 19, 1961, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox.
- What is Eric Allin Cornell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 19, 1961 birth.
- What time was Eric Allin Cornell 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 Eric Allin Cornell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the December 19, 1961 birth date.
- What is Eric Allin Cornell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 19, 1961 birth date.
- Where is Eric Allin Cornell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Eric Allin Cornell's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
