Eric F. Wieschaus
Eric F. Wieschaus (born June 8, 1947, South Bend, United States), aged 79, is an American geneticist. Wieschaus's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Genetics Society of America Medal and Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order.
Eric F. Wieschaus’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Eric
Eric F. Wieschaus’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
In 1947, 2,344 American boys and 5 girls were registered Eric — 122nd among boys and 5,561st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eric’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on E (5) and closes on C (3).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Eric’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
The record
What sets Eric apart
Tim Berners-Lee (1955) and Kanye West (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Eric, according to the stars
Core essence
Eric 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. Eric needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Eric needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Eric needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Eric wants to be loved
Eric 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 Eric is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Eric creates
How Eric makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Eric creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Eric is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Eric is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Eric 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 Eric's birth date. Working below.
Where Eric sits
Six lines
Eric’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 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 Eric F. Wieschaus
Three stars chosen from the real sky above South Bend 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 South Bend that night
Computed for 41.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at South Bend was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 83.9° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
South Bend sits at 41.7°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 South Bend at all: they sit past the −48.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 77% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
How unusual Eric's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mars · 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.
Score your own chart →Eric F. Wieschaus at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Eric F. Wieschaus's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 8, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Eric F. Wieschaus was born on June 8, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Eric F. Wieschaus's birth date, June 8, 1947, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Eric’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eric F. Wieschaus' date-only chart is Mercury square Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Eric F. Wieschaus combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Eric’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Aquarius 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
stableMoonoppositionPluto0.1° to 6.8° orb
Eric’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.8° to 2.3° orb
Eric’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMarssquarePluto2.0° to 2.7° orb
Eric’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.4° to 4.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.8° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus4.1° to 5.0° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.5° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.9° orb
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Eric’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 2°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 21°32′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 11°29′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 3°08′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 14°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Eros trine Pluto 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.4°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.8°
Eric’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Eric’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.
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.2°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.9°
More people like Eric
Other biologists
- Elizabeth Blackburn1948
- Yoshinori Ohsumi1945
- Michael W. Young1949
- Jules A. Hoffmann1941
- Victor Ambros1953
- Martin Evans1941
Born in United States
- Yusef KomunyakaaAmerican poet and academic (born 1947)
- John VarleyAmerican science fiction author
- H. Robert HorvitzAmerican biologist
- Bill MarimowAmerican investigative reporter
- Ron MillerAmerican illustrator and author
- Lawrence WrightAmerican author, screenwriter, and staff writer (1947-)
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on June 8
- Tim Berners-Lee1955
- Kanye West1977
- Francis Crick1916
- Joan Rivers1933
- Javier Mascherano1984
- Bonnie Tyler1951
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Lino SaputoCanadian businessman
- Martha Rivers IngramAmerican business executive, emerita chairman (Ingram Industries), billionaire heiress
- Nguyen Thi Phuong ThaoVietnamese businesswoman
Other Gemini Pig charts
- Carl DueringGerman actor
- Roy DotriceBritish actor
- Henry Hallett DaleEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate
- Saint-John PerseFrench poet and diplomat
Other Steadfast Storytellers
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- Idrissa GueyeSenegalese association football player
- Asian DollAmerican rapper (born 19969
- Cole HolcombAmerican football player (born 1996)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Robert CummingsAmerican actor
- Ulrich MüheGerman actor
- Nathalie BayeFrench actress
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Eric’s cards
Computed from June 8, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eric’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q301438 (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 Geltron at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eric F. Wieschaus at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Eric F. Wieschaus.
Quick answers about Eric F. Wieschaus’s chart
- How old is Eric F. Wieschaus?
- Eric F. Wieschaus is 79 years old, born June 8, 1947 in South Bend, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Eric F. Wieschaus?
- Eric F. Wieschaus is a Gemini: born June 8, 1947, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Eric F. Wieschaus's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 8, 1947 birth.
- What is Eric F. Wieschaus's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Eric F. Wieschaus's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Eric F. Wieschaus's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Eric F. Wieschaus's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
