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Eric Kandel

Eric Kandel (born November 7, 1929, Vienna, Austria), aged 96, is an American neuropsychiatrist. Kandel is best known for The age of the unconscious. Kandel's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine and Austrian Decoration for Science and Art.

Eric Kandel’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Eric Kandel’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

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) × fixed 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

The SSA recorded 205 American boys named Eric in 1929: 408th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Eric’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

11

Soul Urge · insight

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on E (5) and closes on C (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

3 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

The record

What sets Eric apart

Marie Curie (1867) and Albert Camus (1913) 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 does not do surface. The core of Eric is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Eric is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Eric is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Eric needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Eric wants to be loved

Eric wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Eric gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Eric runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Eric

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Eric

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Eric

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Eric

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Eric

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Eric

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vienna on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Eric’s birth-night reference starSchedarwarm orange · CassiopeiaSchedar, in Cassiopeia. A warm orange star, 81.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Schedar →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 41° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Vienna that night

Computed for 48.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Vienna was Schedar, in Cassiopeia, 81.2° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.

Vienna sits at 48.2°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −41.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 44° below the horizon, Moon down and 34% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Eric's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Venus

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

Eric Kandel's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 7, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Eric Kandel was born on November 7, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Eric Kandel's birth date, November 7, 1929, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Eric’s chart

Eric’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.7° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.8° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 1.3° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.8° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.5° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.1° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 5° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 5° orbSun in Scorpio · 14°34′☉14°Moon in Capricorn · 21°20′☽21°Mercury in Scorpio · 2°39′☿2°Venus in Libra · 22°38′♀22°Mars in Scorpio · 22°06′♂22°Jupiter in Gemini · 14°38′ · retrograde♃℞14°Saturn in Sagittarius · 27°37′♄27°Uranus in Aries · 8°05′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Virgo · 3°21′♆3°Pluto in Cancer · 19°34′ · retrograde♇℞19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonsquareVenus0.0° to 6.6° orb

    Eric’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMoonoppositionPluto0.0° to 7.7° orb

    Eric’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 1.5° orb

    Eric’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableMarstrinePluto2.2° to 2.9° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.4° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSuntrinePluto4.5° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars7.4° to 7.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 6.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.3° to 12.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysextileSaturnorb from 4.3° to 5.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleVenussextileSaturnorb from 4.4° to 5.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Eric’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 11°52′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 17°29′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 5°46′ (moves 0.65° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 3°26′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 18°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 0.6°
  • Eros trine Uranus 2.3°
  • Eros square Neptune 2.4°
  • Chiron opposition Sun 2.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.8°

Eric’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Eric’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.1°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 0.5°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Sun quintile Neptune 0.8°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.2°
  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.3°
  • Sun semi-square Saturn 2.0°

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Eric’s cards

Computed from November 7, 1929. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Eric’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q155529 (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 aquarius3, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Eric Kandel at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Eric Kandel.

Quick answers about Eric Kandel’s chart

How old is Eric Kandel?
Eric Kandel is 96 years old, born November 7, 1929 in Vienna, Austria.
What zodiac sign is Eric Kandel?
Eric Kandel is a Scorpio: born November 7, 1929, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Eric Kandel's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 7, 1929 birth.
What is Eric Kandel's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Eric Kandel's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Eric Kandel's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Eric Kandel's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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