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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Pig, with 
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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
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
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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Eric sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Eric F. Wieschaus, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Aquarius 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.
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
Eric’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.4° to 4.7° orb
Eric’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
Eric’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileMars3.8° to 4.5° orb
Eric’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionUranus4.1° to 5.0° orb
Eric’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.5° to 6.3° orb
Eric’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.9° orb
Eric’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 2°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Eric carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresAries 21°32′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Eric looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 11°29′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Eric attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 3°08′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Eric needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 14°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Eric is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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 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°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Eric is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Eric F. Wieschaus, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Eric’s cards
Every card is computed from June 8, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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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
No birth time is on public record for Eric F. Wieschaus, 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 Q301438, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- 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 time was Eric F. Wieschaus 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 F. Wieschaus's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the June 8, 1947 birth date.
- What is Eric F. Wieschaus's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 8, 1947 birth date.
- 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.
